All articles by Tim Lang – Page 2
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Comment and OpinionThe £250k lab burger - why?
The launch of lab-grown ‘meat’ in London on 5 August 5 was brilliantly done. But questions arise…
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Comment and OpinionWhat cost changing the food system?
For years, public health people thought if they provided figures on the cost of poor diets, policymakers would respond…
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Trade gap reveals the true challenges for UK food policymakers
The G8 has been interesting for food policy. Forget what we do at home…
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Why everyone's talking about sustainable diets
What is a sustainable diet? This innocuous question raises fiendishly complex issues…
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Britain needs a new food framework
Last week, David Heath, Defra minister for food, told the Telegraph Britain needs to produce more food. He’s right…
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The daily miracle of low-income food budgeting
There’s much media coverage when Chancellors present their Budgets to parliament…
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The food chain's culture of arrogance
I’ve already received one briefing note from a media centre implying the horsemeat scandal is fading…
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Food policy: a controversial start to 2013
Food policy dived straight into deep waters as 2013 began…
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New year's problems need resolution
I’m wary of new year’s resolutions. I yearly resolve to keep my desk clear and not to work at weekends…
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Tim Lang: the five sustainability options
Slowly, the penny is dropping that future food security requires a shift to sustainable diets….
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Don't be fooled by the rain
In Andalucia, Spain, last week, I pondered how water is fundamental to food and civilisation.
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Why we need ministers
As the summer holidays end, Whitehall speculates about ministerial shuffles. Will this affect food?
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The real Olympic legacy
Seven years in the planning and a few weeks in execution, the Olympics is a strange affair.
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The future of food is upon us
As the banking crisis continues, the politics remain the same, dominated by a desire to return to business-as-usual.
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Is the economy shaky or flaky?
In two weeks, world governments will meet in Rio de Janeiro to discuss sustainable development…
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Food poverty affects UK too
For decades, anyone watching world food commodity prices saw dropping graphs
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Stop the consulting and act!
Defra is consulting about its Green Food Project. This is bizarre given it has supposedly championed ‘greening’ the food system since 2001.
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We mustn't sideline sustainability
This June, the UN hosts the Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. It’s a return to Rio to stock-take the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development
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Get the human factor back, Tesco
Amid the shock horror about mighty Tesco’s faltering sales, there was one particularly interesting feature.