#TNOfood event — Food poverty in Birmingham: And finally . . .

At the end of Forum conversation on 9th February, I asked the people round the table  to write the answers to two questions. And here are the questions, and what they wrote in reply:

What is the most interesting /important thing you’ve heard this evening?

• That supermarket data sets could be followed and federated to get a proper view in real time of consumption (though I’m not sure how!)
• Efficiency (and growing efficiency) of the food supply system.
• We eat safe food of very high quality but if supermarket supply chains (i.e. us) become too picky, growers will sell to other countries where they aren’t so fussy 
• Mapping of chip shop location in relation to schools has been done [in one area]
• Publicly available fruit trees
• Rental mini-gardens in Digbeth
• The idea that food policy could be written into Neighbourhood Plans . . . Why didn’t I think of that!

What didn’t you say that you now wish you had?

• Do we need a ‘City Food Tsar’?
• Food poverty . . . basic social inequalities . . . how can we tackle this sustainably