Category - Reviews
Defra’s Green Food Project: Conclusions published 10th July
Today DEFRA published their Green Food Project Conclusions. They describe the Project as
“A major study into how Britain’s entire food system must change to keep food affordable without destroying nature, at a time of soaring world population growth.”
Alan Spedding has written a summary at farmingfutures.org.uk. Leo Hickman’s Guardian blogpost has attracted many comments. James Murray reviews it at Business Green.
The Soil Association points out it doesn’t address the twin challenges of environmental degradation and ill-health through poor diet. Charles Cowap says they’ve missed issues of land tenure.
This important document follows the GO-Science Foresight Report The future of food and farming published in 2010.
Baroness Perry “inspired” by The New Optimists
A copy of The House, Parliament’s weekly magazine dropped through my letterbox today.
And there, on page 47, is a glowing review of The New Optimists by no less than Baroness Perry of Southwark who, among other prestigious positions, is a member of the Lords Science and Technology select committee.
Entitled “Reasons to be cheerful“, she is “inspired” by the over 80 scientists who have made their “positive predictions about the potential of science to transform human health and wellbeing in the 21st century“.
Here is the whole of her review:
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