Food security & resilience: What role should the WMCA play?
This blogpost is about West Midlands Combined Authority-level decision-making and its relevance to food security and resilience matters.
Read National Food Strategy #13: A local level strategy?
Should a city such as Birmingham have a food strategy of its own? Would it make a difference to the well being and economy of the city?
Read National Food Strategy #11: City level responses to food insecurity
In 2015, we published Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response? based on a consultative project we’d run over the previous few months. This blogpost outlines what we said then, and gives our 2019 perspective on it...
Read Our Annual Report: Enlightening & disturbing, an urgent wake-up call
Here’s what some reviewers of our 2017-2018 Annual Report said: “Enlightening and disturbing: an urgent wake-up call for us to take these issues seriously, talk about them, raise awareness and influence policy-makers.”
Read To 2050: City deals
The Government’s city deal with the West Midlands Combined Authority is over 30 years — so well-nigh two decades past the UN SDGs horizon and up to the 2050 COP 21 Paris Agreement on climate change.
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