Food security: presentation to PM’s Strategy Unit

by | Dec 20, 2007


As promised a few weeks back, here’s the presentation on rising food prices that I gave the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit a couple of weeks ago. 

The Strategy Unit team working on food policy haven’t yet made any of their research public, but if / when they do, it will appear on the project web page here.  Although the SU is primarily looking at the issue from a UK perspective, my presentation leads on the international dimensions – in particular the drivers of rising food prices, and the implications internationally.  All comments very welcome…

Author

  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.


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