by Tasting the Future | Sep 26, 2023 | Food systems, 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 | Food systems
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 | 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 | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Covid-19 pandemic has increased awareness around the link between food, health, food security and sustainability leading to a surge in demand for plant-based products. Today we really are witness to a plant-based foods revolution. Over the next year the market for...
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...
