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Cutting food loss and food waste – the role of true cost accounting

Posted on 12 April 2022 by Geoff Tansey

Miranda Burke from Lancaster University is one of the team of early career researchers who won the UK’s Global Food Security programme (GFS) Policy Lab competition for their report ‘A tool in the toolkit: Can True Cost Accounting remove siloed thinking … Continue reading →

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Food system change and animal agriculture missing in Glasgow Climate Pact at COP 26

Posted on 19 November 2021 by Geoff Tansey

One of the most disappointing things about the outcome of the Glasgow Climate Summit – COP 26 – is that there is no mention of food, farming or agriculture in the final text of the main Glasgow Pact. Yet for … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s bid to be a global sustainable food system leader – challenges at home and abroad

Posted on 4 August 2021 by Geoff Tansey

The Irish government just published its ‘Food Vision 2030 – A World Leader in Sustainable Food Systems’ at the beginning of August. In July, I joined a webinar at which aid agencies Trócaire and Oxfam Ireland published their report ‘ … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 reveals foodsystems weaknesses and lessons for its transformation says IFPRI’s 2021 Global Food Policy Report

Posted on 21 April 2021 by Geoff Tansey

‘Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19’ is both a big challenge and the title of the Washington, DC-based International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) latest 124 page report. Here, John McDermott, who has directed the CGIAR Research Programme on Agriculture for … Continue reading →

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Mobilising cities to tackle the climate crisis through food system change for the Climate Summit – COP26

Posted on 7 January 2021 by Geoff Tansey

Cities and local governments can play an essential part in enabling the transformation of food systems needed as part of tackling the climate crisis, says Pete Ritchie of Nourish Scotland. In this interview, he explains how getting cities, local and … Continue reading →

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The Olympics maybe on hold, but Japan’s food policies are still worth a watch.

Posted on 19 October 2020 by Geoff Tansey

a guest blog by Tessa Tricks* We are amidst a major moment for UK food policy. The pandemic has pushed longstanding issues up the agenda; dietary ill-health has become a medical emergency, school food provision has made the PM’s radar … Continue reading →

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Food Justice – Time to deliver

Posted on 13 October 2020 by Geoff Tansey

Ten years ago, I was one of 14 people to sit on the Food and Fairness Inquiry, a year-long investigation into social justice in the food and farming system. This was an innovative and inclusive process resulting in the Food … Continue reading →

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Slavery lies behind today’s diets says historian James Walvin

Posted on 2 October 2020 by Geoff Tansey

What we eat and drink has a history. And when it comes to some ubiquitous things like sugar and coffee, as well as plantation-based commodities, slavery lies at the heart of that history. From his first book ‘A Jamaican Plantation: … Continue reading →

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Phosphorus – friend for crops, foe in the sea

Posted on 29 November 2018 by Geoff Tansey

Phil Haygarth’s passion is phosphorus. He’s a professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University (where I’m an honorary teaching fellow). He’s one of the authors of a Nature Communications paper called ‘Major agricultural changes required to mitigate phosphorus … Continue reading →

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BBC Breakfast features #foodandpoverty commision report at Thurrock lunch club

Posted on 28 October 2015 by Geoff Tansey

I was up before 5am this morning to head for Thurrock lunch club where BBC breakfast did a piece about the Fabian Commission report on Food and Poverty launched today. You can read all about it, download it and see … Continue reading →

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