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 | 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...
by Tasting the Future | Aug 18, 2022 | Case Study, Climate Change, Food Security, Food systems
2022 has witnessed unprecedented levels of heat in the UK, with two official heat waves declared in the months of July and August. Temperatures soared so high on July 19th that the UK’s hottest temperature record was broken not once, but twice – at 39.1C...
by Tasting the Future | Nov 5, 2021 | Climate Change, Food systems
Our food system – the way we grow, harvest, process, distribute, retail, consume and dispose of food matters plays a huge role in the climate change fight, as it currently accounts for a third of total greenhouse gas emissions. We know that without food systems...