Food Security Is National Security

The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs has warned.
The climate crisis creates a growing food security problem that could result in civil unrest and instability, geopolitical conflict, the weaponization of food, migration pressures and the rise of extremism.

### In this Forum we will discuss this and also look at local initiatives that have been formed to tackle the food crisis

Our Speakers are,
Ffinlo Costain. founded the Food & Global Security Network in 2020 and published Soil Health: A security threat profile, prior to COP26. ffinlo has presented at the European Parliament and advised ministers and senior leadership teams in many European countries.

Shiri Shalmy is a founder and co-director of Cooperation Town, a workers cooperative coordinating a movement of over 50 self-organised community food co-ops across the country. Cooperation Town currently directly employs 10 staff and supports two regional organisers.

Wendy Alcock is founder of a much admired local initiative to encourage home cultivation in gardens and on unused land. This is Barnet’s Incredible Edible campaign. Wendy is also a Food growing advocate at haveagrow and trustee for Citizens Advice Barnet.