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 | Sep 7, 2022 | Food Security, Food systems, Forgotten Crops
The global agrifood system is wasteful and damaging but there are steps we can take to tackle it Supply chain disruptions, a pandemic, extreme weather and now a war in Ukraine have exposed faultlines in the global food system that we ignore at our peril. The crisis...
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 | Apr 23, 2018 | Food Security, Food systems, Forgotten Crops
I believe it’s time to bring back diversity to our food systems and bring back those ‘forgotten crops’. Over the last century our industrial food systems have become dominated by just four crops – rice, maize, wheat and soybean – of which the three cereals provide...
