by Tasting the Future | Jul 4, 2019 | Food systems, health
Last week, the UK government announced a year-long review of the food system, which will lead to a new National Food Strategy for England. With the launch of a new website, Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the restaurant chain Leon and the Sustainable Restaurants...
by Tasting the Future | Jan 28, 2019 | Food systems, health, Research
The EAT-Lancet Commission Report on sustainable diets is a welcome contribution towards the debate on healthy and sustainable food systems. This is the easy part. The real challenge comes in addressing the research-action gap, turning evidence into action which really...
by Tasting the Future | Jan 21, 2019 | Food systems, health
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food and Tasting the Future invite you to share your experiences and views on the critical opportunities for and barriers to creating a healthy food system. A team of researchers from Tasting the Future is working with the Global...
by Tasting the Future | Jun 15, 2018 | Food systems
The UK government’s public procurement plans for food ignore the importance of plant-based diets. Now’s the perfect time to change that. We have all heard or seen the overwhelming volume of evidence relating to the significant environmental and health footprints of...
by Tasting the Future | May 22, 2018 | Food systems
Last month’s news headlines in the UK ‘Sainsbury’s vows to slash prices after Asda merger’, were on the face of it good news for consumers were they not? Sainsbury’s promised that shoppers would get a 10% cut in the price of popular foods as a result. After all,...
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...
