PROFESSOR TIM LANG
Tim Lang is Professor Emeritus of Food Policy at City St George’s, University of London. After a doctorate and then hill farming in Lancashire in the 1970s, he focused on food policy across health, environment, politics and culture.
He founded and directed the Centre for Food Policy from 1994 to 2018, researching and educating about food system dynamics. Since Brexit, he has focused increasingly on the UK, writing Feeding Britain (Pelican, 2020).
Currently, he researches and advises on the state of civil food resilience, asking whether society is prepared for food shocks. His recent report, Just in Case: Narrowing the UK Civil Food Resilience Gap, for the National Preparedness Commission, provides a major analysis of the challenges facing Britain’s food security and resilience.
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Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them
How does Britain get its food? How secure is our food system — and what needs to change?
In Feeding Britain, Professor Tim Lang takes a searching look at the UK food system: where our food comes from, what we eat, its impact, and the strengths and fragilities within the system.
Drawing on decades of work in food policy across health, environment, politics and culture, Lang examines how British food has changed and asks whether a system increasingly reliant on complex supply chains and imported food is sufficiently resilient to withstand future shocks.
At its heart, Feeding Britain is a book about the politics of food. Written against the backdrop of Brexit and profound changes to Britain’s relationship with the rest of the world, it argues that the UK needs to reconsider how it produces, imports, distributes and consumes its food — and that simply assuming the existing system will continue to function is increasingly risky.
Combining research, history and policy, Feeding Britain asks what a healthier, more sustainable and more secure British food system could look like — and how we begin creating it.
