Professor Tim Lang

In a new piece for Green Alliance, I ask why primary growers don’t get more income. A focus on addressing food costs & profits could sort English agrifood politics that are currently in a subsidies cleft stick. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/04/10/why…

Is Britain prepared for a food crisis? Food security expert @ProfTimLang believes we could be certainly more prepared, with @cocobyname and Zoë Grünewald From the latest episode of Pod Save the UK. Listen here: go.crooked.com/PodSaveTheUK #PodSaveTheUK #UKFoodCrisis

These and many other issues are explored in my ‘Just in Case’ report to the UK National Preparedness Commission published last month. See here: nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications/j…

What matters is this: what realistically can citizens do? Is storage an individual or community or national or cross-EU responsibility? Store what, where? (Key is actually water.) Does this signal a renewed EU policy interest in food actually feeding people?

Interesting, if accurate. See this: "Every citizen should stockpile enough food to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours in case of crisis, the European Commission is to warn, according to a draft of its Preparedness Union Strategy seen by POLITICO." politico.eu/article/europe…

is the UK public prepared for shocks to the food system? Are affluent societies that are used to plentiful flows? Following from my report to the National Preparedness Commission, I urge the UK public to be be involved. Resilience is a community matter. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

6/ JiC proposes new local civil food resilience committees, link to existing Local Resilience Forums. Protection & Prevention are key for civil food defence. UK Civil Defence spend is £65m out of MoD £55 billion. No budget for civil food resilience. Why? nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications/j…

5/ JiC explores what citizens can do. A lot! Needs (a) support for those already building civil food resilience (b) structures to ramp up community resilience (c) legal duties. Individualism and prepping not the answer, said interviewees. It's society. nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications/j…

My 'Just in Case' rept on UK civil food resilience is out. Critical look. Govt Resilience Framework has sound principles but little focus on food or public. Nat'l Risk Register says only 1/89 risks facing UK society are food-related. Just in Case disagrees nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications/j…

@SJWHarwood Report not yet out but will be published, fear not, within a couple of months.

@ProfTimLang Hi Tim, heard you speak just before December 2024. Too many characters for a tweet. Please read.

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@ProfTimLang Hi, I'm a reporter for @thetimes writing about just in time food supply systems in the UK. Could I speak to you today about shocks to the food supply system? I'm on 07768864928 and will.humphries@the-times.co.uk

The scale of today’s internet operating system crash is not surprising to those of us looking at how real resilience planning actually is. Basic rules of resilience are being flouted as dependence on a few large companies is being built in. Resilience requires decentralisation.

The right to buy council houses cheaply and not replace the stock is the quintessential, disastrous example of putting the “I” before the “we”. The next in the mini-series to accompany the publication in paperback of “This Time No Mistakes” this week. Hope you are enjoying them!

Fine positive messages at Copenhagen EU FoodTrails public procurement conference. Cities learning from each other. 2015 Milan @mufpp as key exchange hub. Value of targets for health, taste, CO2e & training. Copenhagen now has 24 Food Schools (pupils spend a week cooking for all).

My moth mates say it’s more likely a cucullia verbascii!! Clue in the name.

These caterpillars are on a large verbascum in our garden. Specialist advice, please! Is this water betony moth (Cucullia scrophulariae) caterpillar?

Food politics barely feature in the UK election so far. They should. Food security (national & household) is a prime duty. So is the impact of food on health, economy & enviro. Why no Food Security & Resilience law? This interview I gave is now relevant: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gfa-I…