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UK’s Food Standards Agency to be Restructured

Ryan Bromley — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:49:05 +0000

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 ...

Bearing the Weight of Britain’s Child Obesity

Ryan Bromley — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:06:19 +0000

The independent research company, Datamonitor, yesterday released its report on the rate of Britain’s child obesity. Alarmingly, the report declared that British children are spending nearly twice as much annually on sweets and chocolates, with British ...

Russia and the USA: the Politics of Poultry

Ryan Bromley — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:16:34 +0000

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 ...

The Conference on Biodiversity 2010 – the “mitigation of perverse and the promotion of positive”

Ryan Bromley — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:14:36 +0000

The conference on biodiversity (CBD), running from 10-21 May 2010, is currently taking place in Nairobi. As 2010 is also the UN “International Year of Biodiversity” there has been quite a lot of activity surrounding ...

UK Food Group Briefing – Food Sovereignty, Agroecology & Ecological Food Provision

Ryan Bromley — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:28:57 +0000

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 ...

DEFRA’s UK Food Security Assessment Matrix

Ryan Bromley — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:54:13 +0000

In January 2010, DEFRA produced a handy assessment of the UK’s food security in a helpful matrix. The assessment covers issues under the headings: Global Availability, Global Resource Sustainability, UK Availability and Access, UK Food ...

Professor Tim Lang and the New Fundamentals

Ryan Bromley — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:53:30 +0000

This is a video presentation by Professor Tim Lang on the the New Fundamentals, those being the key areas of concern for global food security and sustainability. Professor Lang, in his lecture at the Garden ...

DFID/Defra Policy Narrative on Global Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Ryan Bromley — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:47:18 +0000

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 ...

In Memory of Mariusz Handzlik

Ryan Bromley — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:20:50 +0000

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 ...

Food poverty and inequality: The growth of hunger in the UK – a lecture by Martin Caraher

Ryan Bromley — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:07:08 +0000

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 ...