
FCRN Response to the Sustainable Food Trust commentary on Grazed and Confused.
The commentary by the Sustainable Food Trust can be found here. Below is our response to it.
The commentary by the Sustainable Food Trust can be found here. Below is our response to it.
This blog-post is written by Dr Tara Garnett, coordinator and lead researcher at the FCRN. It originally appeared in The Conversation on the 3rd October and is reposted here with permisssion. Tara’s work centres on the interactions among food, climate, health and broader sustainability issues and she has a particular interest in livestock as a sector where many of these converge.
She is also interested in how knowledge is communicated to and interpreted by policy makers, civil society organisations and industry, and in the values that these different stakeholders bring to food problems and possible solutions.
By Dr Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network, University of Oxford
‘The food system is broken’ says Oxfam. Government scientific advisors warn of a ‘perfect storm’ of global events influenced by, and with, potentially catastrophic consequences for the food system. Organisations are launched to tackle the challenges posed by the ‘food-water-energy nexus.’ Some take a more political stance, and demand ‘food justice’ and ‘food sovereignty.’
A consortium aiming to understand local to global social, economic and environmental food system interactions - and to aid decision making
This blog-post is written by FCRN coordinator Tara Garnett who is part of a new global research collaboration; the Telecoupling consortium. In this post she describes what the project aims to do and she also asks for feedback from the FCRN community on key organisations, institutions and individuals that you think should be involved in this project, other projects that the research group should know about and data sources that could be included.
This was a busy year for the FCRN. In addition to our weekly newsletters, our interviews and ad hoc blog posts (featuring some particularly vigorous to-ing and fro-ing with the Sustainable Food Trust on the red meat debate), we produced a number of substantial reports.
Dear Richard
Thank you for this lengthy response to my commentary. I will confine myself to a few quick points and clarifications, structured according to your headings