Digest

The report presents a sober assessment: the UK food system has coped remarkably well with recent shocks, but there are growing doubts about its ability to withstand more severe disruptions in the years ahead.

Rob Hopkins argues that what’s holding us back is our inability to picture, in any detail, a future we would actually want to live in…

Andy Burnham became PM last week promising “good growth in every postcode”. What does is it mean for UK food and farming?

Jack Bobo discusses how trust, and the language we use with one another, decide what change is possible long before the evidence gets heard….

What it means when the first talk of the day at a regenerative farming festival is about national security…..

We know the UK food system is vulnerable to shocks; what is far less clear is what being ready for them actually looks like on the ground. That is the gap the Bristol Food Disaster Risk Planning project set out to address…

This spring delivered two reminders of how exposed the UK food system has become….

Find out how Denmark are identifying what it would actually cost to align farming with climate, nature and just transition goals at once.

Last October we published our Roadmap for Resilience, arguing that the UK food system faces a future of intensifying disruption and that transformational change rather than incremental adjustment is the only credible response.
Since then, three developments have tested that argument…

We tell ourselves that food crises happen elsewhere. But a new study, led by Sarah Bridle, alongside experts from across policy, business and civil society, has mapped the pathways by which the UK could face serious food system disruption