Short listens
Reconnecting with food podcast series to come soon.
Older podcasts:
Anne Touboulic and Festo Massawe from Nottingham’s Future Food Beacon discuss the impacts of climate change on global food supplies and what can possibly be done.
Lucy McCarthy and Ella Grantham from Bristol’s Cabot Institute discuss the importance of transparency in food supply chains.
Short watches
In this short video we discuss some of the impacts caused by our global food supply chains. We focus on the where, when and how of food supply chains to show how they work and the potential impact of policy, business practices and consumer choices. We highlight some of the changes that can help to create a more sustainable system for the future.
Short Reads
Today (20 May 2022) is world bee day and in this blog, Dr Anne Touboulic, Associate Professor in Operations Management at Nottingham University Business School explores the role of this undervalued species. Bumblebees are a symbol in many ways. A symbol of the interconnectedness of humanity and ecological systems and one of how such interdependence […]
It is time to employ some radical thinking on the future of our food systems, write Lexi Earl, Anne Touboulic and Lucy McCarthy The imperative to rethink our food systems to avoid further long-term damage to our climate has never been more pertinent. Yet much of the thinking on the future of food systems is […]
The Perfect Storm: Environmentally and Socially Unsustainable Seafood Supply Chains This post is written by Lee Matthews, Lucy McCarthy and Anne Touboulic. Seafood supply chains sustain three billion people nutritionally and also provide 10% of the world’s population with employment, the vast majority of whom are small-scale fisher-people. Seafood provides access to safe protein for many of the world’s […]
This post is written by Lucy McCarthy (QUB), Anne Touboulic (University of Nottingham), and Lee Matthews (University of Nottingham). In our last post, we began our journey considering food supply chains in times of pandemic and we touched upon their history. Here, we further consider some of the flaws in our globalised food systems and the […]
