by Tasting the Future | Sep 26, 2023 | Food systems, Uncategorized
2023 has been a year of climate extremes with high temperature records tumbling across the world. Human activities, including food production and consumption, are driving these temperature records and the intensity and frequency of climate-induced weather disasters...
by Tasting the Future | Sep 11, 2023 | Food systems
It’s now been over 5 years since I took the plunge and established my own sustainable food systems consultancy business, Tasting the Future, after over 30 years working with a wide range of other organisations. I wanted more flexibility, more control over the kind of...
by Tasting the Future | Jun 8, 2023 | Agroecology, Climate Change, Food Security, Healthy, sustainable diets
With much fanfare and after many years of consultation with a wide variety stakeholder across Europe, the European Commission (EC) published its Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F)[i] in May 2020, a 10-year plan aiming to make food systems ‘fair, healthy and environmentally...
by Tasting the Future | Jan 9, 2023 | Food systems
During 2022 we witnessed a series of unprecedented events and challenges that had a significant impact across the food and farming sector. The combined and interrelated economic crisis, energy crisis, cost of living crisis, extreme heat and other weather-related...
by Tasting the Future | Nov 21, 2022 | Climate Change, Food systems
In 1833, an English economist, William Forster Lloyd, published an article which included an example of over-use of a common resource. He referred to livestock farmers sharing a common parcel of land on which they were each entitled to let their cows graze as was then...
