Food Security

The OECD on world agriculture for 2010-2019    
Interesting trends and thoughts which serve as background to land use and CAP (21/06/10)

Food Ethics Council Magazine
Summer Volume 5 has good articles on Food Policy (09/06/10)

Defra Council makes recommendations for Government action on Food. I wonder which Government?
Food: a recipe for a healthy, sustainable and successful future (24/03/10)

A World view on livestock production
FAO report analyzes the rapidly changing global livestock production (27/02/10)

Defra Research
Report on consumer views relating to food choice, diet, waste, seasonality, and how food chain might react. (18/02/10)

A view on biofuels
The impact of industrial biofuels on people and global hunger (16/02/10)

What is Land For?
The RELU book debating their work on land usage.  Also chance to comment. (08/02/10)

WWF report on the global environmental effects of UK Food Supplies
Environmental impacts of the UK food economy  (02/02/10)

City Food lecture by Sir David King
Chief Govt Scientific Advisor (02/02/10)

The CLA/RSPB Paper on the Reform of the CAP
Paragraph 3 of page 6 starkly sums up the policy choice (29/01/10)

The Food debate in USA
The language a bit more flowery but the tensions similar.   The Food Policy Councils are a sort of regional mainstreaming of the Food 2030 strategy. Some homework for the Forum and IRS.   There is more emphasis on economic contribution to regions in this USA sustainable concept. (19/01/10)

Rt Hon Hilary Benn speech at Oxford Farming Conference
To launch Food 2030 (07/01/10)

Defra publish Food 2030 Strategy 
Together with supporting documents. (05/01/10)

Sustainable Diets 
Review of data and recommendations to Goverment by Sustainable Development Commission.  A bit wider than straight Food Security but discusses the probable diet changes which may well be on the agenda. (02/01/10)

New Food Security Website
Launched by the BBSRC so research orientated. (02/01/10)

Oxfam Responds to the Food Miles Debate
Reference third country exports to the UK (02/01/10)

The EU Consults on a Policy for Agriculture and Food Security
Closes January 9th.   Interesting background intellectual thoughts (06/12/09)

The Food Ethics Council Magazine for Winter 2009
Has a comprehensive review of climate change and its affects on Food and Farming.   There are wide ranges of articles covering the range of differing opinions including one on the 15 years of international conferences and diplomacy leading up to Copenhagen. (01/12/09)

Ministerial Statement to Parliament by Rt Hon Hilary Benn

Rt Hon Hilary Benn's address to Fabian Society on Food Security  

Defra announce members of their Food Security Council

Rt Hon Hilary Benn on Food Security

NFU response

Indicators being developed by Defra

Paper from Centre of Food Policy City University London
David Barling, Rosalind Sharpe, Tim Lang 

EFRA Select Committee Enquiry - Securing food supplies up to 2050

NFU responds to the EFRA select committee enquiry

A World Prospective on Food Security Issues 

Stop decline in UK food production

EFRA publish their report on Food Security issues 

This is the further consultation from Defra on the Food debate
Comments by 16th October 2009.  Lots more reading but trying to raise the conflicts. There are lots of comments on the live feedback area.

A wider view of Food Security and it's Ethics

Another angle on food security. This is GM soya and its relevance to the livestock sector, given EU non GM policy remains

Water - How we move it around the world in products.
Another aspect of Food Security is water availability.  This WWF report looks at from where we import food and the water it takes.  It does not look at possible stresses of climate change on the water availability.  Basically the stress will increase and political decisions about priorities are most likely to affect exports and thus UK food security.  

This report looks at water in Asia and shows in detail the stresses predicted in broad terms in the WWF report.  It makes scary reading.

Defra Food Policy Advisors Publish first report

Royal Society asks for £2 billion for food security. Me-thinks some electioneering for University funding

Fruit and Vegetable Task Force announced to look at F&V production in UK and the dietary health issues

Government Response to the EFRA committee on Securing Food Supply till 2050 

The EU Council view of Food Security and world trade

The Swedish View
What foods you should eat to minimize environmental impact 

The Food Ethics Council Discussion paper on livestock products in the diet related to climate change and food security (02/12/09)

The Foresight Project Scientists and policy makers looking at land use and how land might be used in the future