The Game – Birmingham Food Council

The Game at the Warwick Crop Centre: Interim Report

NOTE: The request for comments, amendments et al is now closed. Many thanks to all those who responded! This is the link to the final edition of our Report on The Game at Warwick University: UK food security into...

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Game Players: The value of Warwick Crop Centre experts on future food security challenges

note: The major output from this scenarios exercise is this report: UK food security into the Anthropocene. ____ “Fantastic workshop! I’d recommend it not only to peers, but to everyone involved in the food system. Brilliant!” So said one of...

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Cybernetics Society: UK preparedness for future food system shocks

This is an account of my talk on 12 September 2020 to the UK and American Cybernetics Societies on UK preparedness for future food system shocks:

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Annual Report: Timely and pertinent work

“Both the course of events within the UK over a possible Brexit, and the troubling forecasts about climate change, resource depletion and population pressures mean the work described over the next few pages is even more timely and pertinent...

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The Game: Optimism, Reality and Context . . . dancing on the biscuit of opportunity

“How can you bear to spend so much time thinking about it all?” my friend Anne asked. “You have grandchildren.”

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A city is yours: “Only nine meals between mankind and anarchy?”

The Beast from the East last spring, and then the heat and drought of the summer damaged harvests. The media has talk of stockpiling food in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.

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The status quo, vested interests & a simple metric for civic leaders

Where, we asked ourselves, should we recommend civic leaders to focus their time and effort given what else is on their agenda? What’s within their power to do?

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