Food security spotlight: UK

10:00 - 11:00

The fragility of the UK’s food system was exposed at the height of the pandemic. Now as we move to a new era beyond BREXIT, reflecting on the learnings from the first three months, our panel of policy makers, industry leaders and academics will look at how the UK’s food system must evolve in light of trade deals & tariffs, increases in food prices and the growing number of people facing food poverty.

Chair: Guy Poppy, Director of Transforming the UK food system for healthy people and a healthy environment & Professor Of Ecology, University of Southampton

Kristin Bash MPH, FFPH Chair, Food Special Interest Group, Faculty of Public Health

Vicki Hird, Head of Sustainable Farming, Sustain

Professor Michael Winter OBE, Professor of Land Economy and Society, University of Exeter

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