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...
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 | Jul 6, 2022 | Food systems, health, One Health
It was Hippocrates, often cited as the father of medicine, who is credited with an aphorism equating food and medicine with the phrase ‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’. Our diet, health and lifestyles remain at the core of this quote about the...
by Tasting the Future | Apr 7, 2022 | Food systems, health, livestock, planetary health
A new report, released today, World Health Day, by World Animal Protection and Tasting the Future, lays bare the most damaging human health impacts linked to industrial livestock, and how these will only get worse as the demand for cheap meat from factory farms...
by Tasting the Future | Mar 15, 2022 | Food systems, health, Healthy, sustainable diets
The adoption of environmentally sustainable diets will have a hugely positive impact on the global food system and on our chances of living within the planetary boundaries, i.e., the safe limits outside of which the Earth system cannot continue to function in a stable...
