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Category Archives: Interviews
Sitopia: how food can save the world – an interview with Carolyn Steel
In her wide ranging book ‘Sitopia: how food can save the world’ Carolyn Steel aims to provide a tool with which to think – and re-think – the world through food. In this interview, she explains the meaning of the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews
Tagged Carolyn Steel, culture, environment, food, food policy, food systems, good life, sustainability, wellbeing
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Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them
Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University, London, spends 2 years writing Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them and when it comes out it is in the midst of a global pandemic when feeding … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews
Tagged Britain, COVID-19, environment, food, food policy, food systems, health, labout, poverty, sustainability, UK
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Food or War: is that the question?
Rather foolishly, when I set up my website some years ago, I wrote that I was thinking of writing a book provisionally entitled Food is a Key to Avoiding World War III. Life has intervened and I haven’t been able … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged environment, food, food security, food system, Julian Cribb, peace & conflict, technology, war
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#Potatoes – Crop of the Future? A discussion with Prof Anton Haverkort
Forty years ago, when I was working in Turkey, I met another young man called Anton Haverkort, just setting out on his career. He grew up on a potato farm in the Netherlands, studied potatoes, and came to Turkey to … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged climate change, Farming, food security, genetics, India, plant breeding, potatoes, Russet Burbank, Rwanda
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Resilience in the UK #foodsystem – 4 key questions
Resilience is one of the buzzwords of our times. Having a resilient food system is crucial in the light of climate destabilisation, biodiversity loss, and political changes such as will be brought about by Brexit in the UK. So what … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Reports
Tagged bread, Farming, food security, food system, food systems, Nourish Scotland, resilience, Scotland, UK
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From #food #waste to #sustainable #foodsystems – digging deep into the reasons why and changes needed
Unusually, I spent yesterday, a warm and sunny September day, mostly outdoors in a short-sleeved shirt at a workshop held at the green oasis of Calthorpe Community Garden, near Kings Cross Station in London. Around 30 people had been gathered … Continue reading
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Tagged circular economy, food, food systems, Food waste, London, sustainability, Sustainable Societies
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Eating Tomorrow – #Agribusiness, Family #Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of #Food
In this conversation, Timothy A. Wise takes us to Africa, India, Mexico and the USA to explain the key findings in his book ‘Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food‘. He also discusses trade deals … Continue reading →