63: Feeding Britain – Tim Lang interviewed

<div>Professor Tim Lang published his new book this March, <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308380/feeding-britain/9780241442227.html">Feeding Britain</a>, which argues that ‘UK is de facto, facing a war time scale of food challenge’. COVID-19 has put a sharp focus on the issues that Professor Lang raises in the book around our unsustainable food system. This podcast will explore what makes our current food system dysfunctional and what can be done to revert the damage.<br> <br> </div> <blockquote>Tim Lang will be taking part in the Global Food Futures programme at Food Matters Live in March, with his session focusing on improving food security and reducing food poverty in the UK. To find out more, and register, <a href="https://bit.ly/3sJXKi3">click here</a> </blockquote><div><br> </div> <div><strong>About Tim Lang</strong></div> <div> <br> Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at City University London’s Centre for Food Policy since 2002. He founded the Centre in 1994. After a PhD in social psychology at Leeds University, he became a hill farmer in the 1970s in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire which shifted his attention to food policy, where it has been ever since. For years, he’s engaged in academic and public research and debate about its direction, locally to globally. His abiding interest is how policy addresses the mixed challenge of being food for the environment, health, social justice, and citizens. What is a good food system? How is ours measured and measuring up? His current research interests are (a) sustainable diets, (b) the meaning of modern food security and (c) the implications of Brexit for the food system.</div> <div> <br> He has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation (eg auditing the Global Top 25 Food Companies on food and health 2005), FAO (eg co-chairing the FAO definition of sustainable diets 2010) and UNEP (eg co-writing its 2012 Avoiding Future Famines report). He has been a special advisor to four House of Commons Select Committee inquiries, two on food