by Tasting the Future | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
2023 has been a year of climate extremes with high temperature records tumbling across the world. Human activities, including food production and consumption, are driving these temperature records and the intensity and frequency of climate-induced weather disasters...
by Tasting the Future | Jan 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
During 2022 we witnessed a series of unprecedented events and challenges that had a significant impact across the food and farming sector. The combined and interrelated economic crisis, energy crisis, cost of living crisis, extreme heat and other weather-related...
by Tasting the Future | Oct 5, 2022 | palm oil
Despite the pledge by 141 countries at the COP26 to end deforestation, the destruction of tropical forests by unsustainable agricultural practices is continuing at a dramatic pace. The global food system is largely responsible for this deforestation, with major...
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...
by Tasting the Future | Mar 15, 2022 | health, Healthy, sustainable diets
The adoption of environmentally sustainable diets will have a hugely positive impact on the global food system and on our chances of living within the planetary boundaries, i.e., the safe limits outside of which the Earth system cannot continue to function in a stable...
