by Tasting the Future | Oct 24, 2024 | health, Policy
In May 2020, the European Commission announced the ambitious EU Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, setting a hopeful vision for transforming food systems across Europe – one that focuses on environmental, human and planetary health. Often, the profound impacts of...
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...
