All articles by Tim Lang
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Comment and Opinion
The food-water connection has profound implications for policy
Globally, 70% of all potable water is used by agriculture, most of it for irrigation. And if you think that only occurs in arid regions, think again.
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Comment and OpinionFood policy: goodwill won't drive system change
Ten, 20, 30 years ago, few food industry magnates admitted a role in non-communicable disease…
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Comment and OpinionCheap food: it's been normalised but it is not 'normal'
A flurry of media and public comment followed the publication of the Efra Committee’s dairy report last week…
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Comment and OpinionHow this week's reports highlight the mess we're in over food
This week, the fifth annual City Food Symposium focused on Sustainable Diets…
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Comment and OpinionDietary guidelines: Big Business vs Big Science
New dietary guidelines for Americans are due next year. Revised every five years, they’re outcomes of a long process…
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Comment and OpinionWe need new cultural advice on food, says Tim Lang
Next month, the UN hosts the second International Conference on Nutrition in Rome…
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Comment and OpinionThe lessons from the Scottish referendum for our food system
Whitehall breathed a sigh of relief at the Scottish referendum result….
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Comment and OpinionHow self-service has turned shoppers into unpaid workers
The centenary of the creation of the first self-service supermarket is approaching…
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Comment and OpinionFSA campylobacter move is regulatory capture, says Tim Lang
Back in 1955, the US academic Marver Bernstein coined the phrase ‘regulatory capture’ to describe how regulatory bodies can become subservient to the industry they’re set up to regulate.
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Comment and OpinionScottish independence would create food system uncertainty
We might sometimes regret our elected representatives. Parliamentary democracy can be messy…
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Comment and OpinionThe only 'local' is planetary in today's food system
EU elections have reminded mainstream politicians of public anger at perceived loss of local and national controls…
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Comment and OpinionFood poverty alarm call
Last week, 170 public health doctors and specialists wrote an open letter on food poverty to the PM…
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Comment and OpinionThe UK needs more plants and fewer animals
The IPCC climate change report last week said agricultural productivity was likely to reverse…
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Comment and OpinionThe unpalatable truth of the costs of food
At what point does society change when faced with unpalatable facts?…
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Comment and OpinionBetter land management could ease flood risk
For some time, it has been a wry joke that the ‘f’ in Defra no longer stands for ‘food’ but for ‘floods’…
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Comment and OpinionNew sugar campaign spices up food politics
Sugar has long been a hot political issue. Action on Sugar, launched last week, was about its impact on public health…
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Comment and OpinionWe need to talk about meat
There is a deep fissure now in food policy over meat…
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Comment and OpinionWhy food is central in the 'new' politics of austerity
The speed with which the politics of austerity has rocketed up the agenda since the party conferences should not surprise…
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Comment and OpinionAnother direction emerges in the food world
People smile at the tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes. But something like it is going on in the food world…
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Comment and OpinionGood food needs good wages
UK consumer price inflation in July was 2.8%, with food inflation just higher than that…