by Tasting the Future | Jul 9, 2020 | Food systems
A pervasive and powerful narrative dominates our global food system. It shapes how our food is produced, harvested, processed, distributed, marketed, eaten, and disposed of. It drives and dominates research, investment, policy priorities, and practices of many...
by Tasting the Future | Jun 4, 2020 | Food systems
The term ‘black swan’ was popularised by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”. Nassim used the term to describe large-scale disruptive events that are difficult to predict yet have massive global impacts. The...
by Tasting the Future | Apr 7, 2020 | Food systems, health
The Coronavirus crisis has shone a light on the links between ecological health, animal health and human health. It has also highlighted the vulnerability of our global food systems to such shocks. Healthy ecosystems are key to supporting human health and well-being...
by Tasting the Future | Nov 7, 2019 | Food systems, health, soils
It was the American poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry who said that ‘The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death...
by Tasting the Future | Sep 17, 2019 | Food systems
The world is changing fast. This speed of change is faster than it ever has been in human history. Growing nationalism in some parts of the world, inequalities, the continued terror threat, migration within and between countries, the growth in the digital economy and...
by Tasting the Future | Jul 23, 2019 | Agroecology, Case Study, Food systems, health, soils
Until recently, China’s agricultural history and traditions have been embedded in approaches and systems in which soil health and human health were at the heart of their farming traditions. This changed as a result of the cultural revolution and rapid urbanisation...
