strategy – Birmingham Food Council

Part 11: Two examples of using the function map to ‘see’ the food supply landscape differently

As stated in the previous blogpost, it’s useful to think of the function of the millions of organisations and people operating across the food supply landscape.

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Assessing the Birmingham Food Strategy

As part of the Healthy Food City Forum, we were asked to assess a draft Birmingham Food Strategy earlier this month.

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Our Annual Report: The urgent challenge is for socio-political decision-makers . . .

Our latest Annual Report is an unsettling read. One of our reviewers described it as “frightening, stomach-churning”.

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Our food system is failing — and it’s about to get dramatically worse

I hope I’m wrong. But there’s no evidence to suggest I am.

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Our economic priority: The huge & growing food & drink sector

Our Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) asked us to respond to their draft Strategic Economic Plan 2016-2030. So we did, and you can read what we said here.

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A city-level response to the drivers for emergency food aid . . .

Our project report Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city-level response? was submitted it to the APPG on Hunger and Food Poverty at the end of October. They thanked us for our ‘huge contribution’.

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Food & the city economy: Tensions, trade-offs and opportunities

We’ve just published our second report on food and the city economy, Tensions, trade-offs and opportunities. Its contents page replicated above. We use two new thinking tools to aid decision-makers in Birmingham. We think the city can become a global leader in...

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