by Tasting the Future | May 7, 2025 | Food Security, Food systems
We live in a VUCA world. This phrase often describes our current world’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature. With a new US President at the helm of one of the world’s most powerful countries, global food security faces significant...
by Tasting the Future | Oct 24, 2024 | Food systems, health, Policy
In May 2020, the European Commission announced the ambitious EU Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, setting a hopeful vision for transforming food systems across Europe – one that focuses on environmental, human and planetary health. Often, the profound impacts of...
by Tasting the Future | Dec 12, 2023 | Climate Change, Factory Farms, Food systems, livestock
At COP28 a new report, which I authored on behalf of World Animal Protection, was released. How Factory Farming Emissions are Worsening Climate Disasters in the Global South details how 11% of greenhouse gas emissions stem from factory farming operations, resulting in...
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 | 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 | 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...
