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Tag Archives: sustainability
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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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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Artificial Intelligence (#AI) and #Sustainable #Food Systems – help or hindrance?
Last month, the day after the world’s scientific academies warned that global food systems are failing humanity and speeding up climate change, I was at a workshop at Chatham House on “Artificial intelligence for a sustainable and healthy food system“. … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged agricultural policy, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, food, food systems, sustainability, sustainable diets, technology
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Taking responsibility for a #sustainable #food future?
Whose responsibility is it to ensure we have a sustainable food future? That was the theme of this year’s food conference at Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International affairs – at the end of November 2018. The 6 … Continue reading
Future #Food #Sustainability and research needs for the UK and EU facing #Brexit?
I was at an horizon scanning workshop organised by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics last week to discuss the future of food sustainability in the UK. It was run under the Chatham House rule, which means you can say things … Continue reading
From #diet for a small planet, to myths about world #hunger to living democracy and hope – a conversation with Frances Moore Lappé
It was quite fitting that Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) invited Frances Moore Lappé to give a keynote speech at its 2nd birthday party in mid-July. Frances has had a huge impact with her work spanning … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, Farming, food, food security, food system, hope, hunger, poverty, Small Planet Institute, sustainability
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Great new guide to global #soil #biodiversity from #EU on show @ESOF2016
My first degree was in soil science and it was great to see this beautifully illustrated Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas on display at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2016) in Manchester earlier this week. Despite all our lives depending upon soil, … Continue reading
From India’s green to greed to evergreen revolution – M S Swaminathen discusses a lifetime’s work
In 2009, I met M S Swaminathan during a visit to India. A plant genetistist, who was at Cambridge at the same time as Watson and Crick, he is often known as the father of India’s green revolution. A towering … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Biotechnology, climate change, Farming, food security, food system, Green Revolution, hunger, India, M S Swaminathan, patents, poverty, seeds, Soils, sustainability
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#Food’s role in creating healthier, happier #cities for all
Belfast in Northern Ireland is, unfortunately, perhaps best known for the decades of violence, called the Troubles, and as the place where the ill-fated Titantic was built. While the local TV news bulletins were reflecting about how the start of … Continue reading →