by Tasting the Future | Dec 12, 2023 | Climate Change, Factory Farms, 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 | Jun 8, 2023 | Agroecology, Climate Change, Food Security, Healthy, sustainable diets
With much fanfare and after many years of consultation with a wide variety stakeholder across Europe, the European Commission (EC) published its Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F)[i] in May 2020, a 10-year plan aiming to make food systems ‘fair, healthy and environmentally...
by Tasting the Future | Nov 21, 2022 | Climate Change
In 1833, an English economist, William Forster Lloyd, published an article which included an example of over-use of a common resource. He referred to livestock farmers sharing a common parcel of land on which they were each entitled to let their cows graze as was then...
by Tasting the Future | Sep 7, 2022 | Food Security, 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
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...