by Tasting the Future | Nov 15, 2021 | Food systems
2021 has been quite a seminal year for our food systems. The recent climate change summit (COP26), the UN Food System Summit (held in September) and the ongoing focus on the health impacts of our food (driving the triple burden of malnutrition – hunger (820 million),...
by Tasting the Future | Sep 24, 2021 | Food systems
By Guest Blogger, Matt Williams, Climate and Land Programme Lead, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. Food shortages a surprise result of gas price rises A recent rise in gas prices has caught some off guard, with Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng MP making a statement...
by Tasting the Future | Mar 4, 2021 | Food systems
Today, 4th March 2021, marks World Obesity Day. There is mounting evidence that our food system – the way we grow, harvest, process, transport, market, consume, and dispose of food – is making us ill and is contributing towards our ecological crisis. Our...
by Tasting the Future | Sep 23, 2020 | livestock
The story of the chicken is one which is intimately linked to story of industrial farming. From the shy, red jungle fowl which once roamed the vast tropical forests of South East Asia 2,000 years ago, to the ubiquitous food of the modern era, the domestication and...
by Tasting the Future | Jun 4, 2020 | Food systems
The term ‘black swan’ was popularised by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”. Nassim used the term to describe large-scale disruptive events that are difficult to predict yet have massive global impacts. The...
