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Online Video club – May is food security month
Published Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 by Karl Bedingfield
Tim Lang’s ten ‘new fundamentals’ Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University , member of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission and president of Garden Organic , is the leading UK researcher on food security. In the last 30-40 years there has been enormous investment in what is called efficiency. That means there is no spare. The food system is like a fully stretched rubber band, If it breaks, there would be a sharp rebound. I don’t think a systemic failure is imminent but it is very vulnerable to shocks. They could be technical shocks, ecological shocks or human disease shocks. We don’t have a sustainable UK agriculture base at the moment and we need one In these videos Tim Lang highlights ten of his “new fundamentals” Oil Water Climate change Biodiversity Demographics Urbanisation Labour Nutrition transition Health care costs Battles of power Tim Lang’s new book is “Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society” buy it from Toppings , your local Ely book shop. Transition Ely food group Visit the our food group page for more information on what we can do to increase the resilience of our local food system.
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Online Video club – May is food security month
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