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 …
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Michael Pollan’s book, the Omnivore’s Dilemma, was noteworthy for popularising and illuminating the issue of food traceability. For millenniums food traceability would have not have needed to be explained, yet now we live in a time where …
Carolyn Steel’s book, Hungry City, was an exceptional read; not only did she demonstrate how cities have evolved around their embedded relationship with food and rural production, but she illuminated the tensions that modern cities …
Many within the food policy community eagerly waited to see if the Obama administration would lead the US in a new direction for its food policies as the underpinning policies of the USA related to …
IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a landmark resource for tracking the trends of world hunger. The title of the 2009 index is The Challenge of Hunger: focus on financial crisis and gender inequality. In …
In July 2009, the UK House of Commons’ Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA) release a report entitled Securing Food Supplies up to 2050: the challenges faced by the UK. The report was triggered …
Part 3 – Rachel Slater & Steve Wiggins
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Part 4 – Discussion/Q&A
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Part 2 – Jonathon Coulter
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