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.
Read 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”.
Read 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.
Read 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.
Read 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’.
Read 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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