Download and complete the worksheet
Listen:
The Food Programme (2020), Sitopia – a land with food at its centre, BBC Radio 4, Aug 31st
– imagining the possibilities for 2030 (30 mins)
Read
Fitzpatrick, I et al (2019), THE HIDDEN COST OF UK FOOD (revised ed), Sustainable Food Trust, July
[See Exec Summary; ch 1 – introduction (pp12-21); ch 2 – Natural capital degradation (pp22-29); ch 3- biodiversity loss (pp30-33); ch 11 – Conclusions and reccomendations (pp60-64)]
Discussion questions
- What are the key concerns that the Sustainable Food Trust report raises?
- What general issues exist in attempting to put financial values on things like natural capital degradation or biodiversity loss?
- Select either one of categories of natural capital degradation identified (GHG and air pollution; food waste; soil degradation; water)
or biodiversity loss
– outline the specific concern and potential policy responses - How possible is it that the UK could arrive at Carolyn Steel’s Sitopia by 2030?
Background reading
Seal, R (2020), Reality bites: how the pandemic changed the way we eat, The Guardian, July 4th
Steel, C (2019), Sitopia: The Power of Thinking Through Food, Technosphere magazine, May 29th
Watts, J (2019), World’s food supply under ‘severe threat’ from loss of biodiversity, The Guardian, Feb 21st
Watts, J (2020), 1% of farms operate 70% of world’s farmland, The Guardian, Nov 24th
