by Tasting the Future | Oct 14, 2020 | Food systems, health, Sustainable Food
Covid-19 must be a wake-up call for governments around the world. A call to take a different path and place human, ecological and animal health at the heart of a new, green economic system. Today, in partnership with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food,...
by Tasting the Future | Apr 7, 2020 | covid-19, 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 | Mar 10, 2020 | health, obesity
Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with over 2.8 million people dying each year as a result of 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 | May 20, 2019 | Agroecology, health, soils
Over the last few years there has been a noticeable and welcome upsurge in research, evidence and policy exploring the importance of soil and its links to improving food security and reducing climate change emissions. There is evidence that healthy soils underpin...
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...
