The rumours circulating around the future of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) were made official on July 20, 2010 with a Prime Minister’s ministerial statement. The FSA is to remain as a non-ministerial department …

In the 1990s, as Russia thawed to liberal economics during the days of the Bush administration, Russia found itself flooded with American fowl.  So abundant was American chicken in Russia that it became popularly known as “Bush …

This briefing paper by the UK Food Group is a beautifully framed presentation of what is wrong with the international food system and how it can be brought back into balance.  While the paper addresses …

DFID and DEFRA have recently released this summary report which covers most of the UK’s governmental efforts related to food security. The report briefly defines the issues which led to the 2008 food price …

Although this post is not related to food policy, it is related to the people that make policy.  Yesterday my dear friend, Mariusz Handzlik, died tragically when the plane carrying the President of the Republic …

City University’s Centre for Food Policy has grown to become one of the nation’s leading voices in food policy.  Led by Prof. Tim Lang the centre not only is the leading food policy academic program …

Ethical logic should be the filter for applied development where the question, “should a thing be done?” must be the gatekeeper of science and policy implementation.  In our food systems and their interconnected sectors  the …

A meal of a hundred courses must begin with a single bite.  And so we begin with an amuse bouche.
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