UK food supply, Covid-19 and the environment ('Insights', series 1 - episode 6)

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Environment, Uk, Farming, Green Alliance, News, Sustainability, Society & Culture, Government

4.9 • 34 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We interview food policy expert Professor Tim Lang about his new book Feeding Britain. Written before the coronavirus crisis, it is nevertheless prescient about many of the issues we now face. We discuss the impact of Covid-19 on our food system and his case for a UK food resilience plan.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Green Alliance podcast. My name is Sean Spears and I'm Green
0:09.1	Alliance's director and I'm really pleased to welcome you to the latest edition of our
0:12.7	podcast. What is an unsettling, uncertain time for us all, we want to use the podcast to
0:17.8	keep people informed of the latest news and developments in environmental
0:21.0	politics and policy. At Green Alliance, we'll be doing our best to connect people and foster
0:26.1	the conversations we need to be having, including through online events and this podcast series.
0:31.6	As ever, your suggestions and feedback will be very welcome.
0:39.6	Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.
0:41.9	We're the charity in Think Tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.
0:46.8	I'm Jim Elliott and I'm a policy advisor leading on Green Alliance's natural environment work.
0:51.8	I'm really pleased to welcome Tim Lang to the Green Alliance podcast
0:55.1	this week. Tim is Professor of Food Policy at City University London and founder of the
1:00.4	University's Centre for Food Policy. He's recently released a new book, Feeding Britain,
1:05.5	Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them, which right now feels even more relevant than ever,
1:12.0	because today we're talking about the impacts and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK food system.
1:17.3	Tim, thanks so much for making the time to talk to us today.
1:20.8	That's a pleasure.
1:21.6	You're obviously extremely busy at the moment with your expertise.
1:27.0	We'll definitely come on to talk about the main messages
1:29.9	from your book. But I wanted to just start with a quick kind of debrief about the COVID-19
1:35.5	pandemic and how it's affected the food system so far and what we might kind of expect over the next
1:41.5	kind of weeks and months. As we record now, we're about halfway
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