by Tasting the Future | May 6, 2020 | Food systems, Healthy, sustainable diets
Covid-19 has exposed the fragility and vulnerability of the food system to external shocks. Sustainable, healthy diets are key to building back better food systems. The pandemic has highlighted our reliance on long and complex supply chains, and just-in-time delivery....
by Tasting the Future | Feb 6, 2020 | health, Novel Foods
The start of 2020 has seen an upsurge in attention around the development of several new and exciting novel food ingredients including a protein made from air, a plant often found floating on our on our ponds and the ‘come back’ ingredient, hemp. Novel foods[1] are...
by Tasting the Future | Jan 13, 2020 | livestock
The debate over the future role that livestock plays within our food system has become more polarised and acrimonious over the last few years, resulting in entrenched positioning which does little to address the human and ecological crisis the world confronts today....
by Tasting the Future | Sep 17, 2019 | Food systems
The world is changing fast. This speed of change is faster than it ever has been in human history. Growing nationalism in some parts of the world, inequalities, the continued terror threat, migration within and between countries, the growth in the digital economy and...
by Tasting the Future | Jul 4, 2019 | Food systems, health
Last week, the UK government announced a year-long review of the food system, which will lead to a new National Food Strategy for England. With the launch of a new website, Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the restaurant chain Leon and the Sustainable Restaurants...
