Britain's Food Supplies in Peace and War.

Journal Article Britain's Food Supplies Get access Britain's Food Supplies. By K. G. Fenelon. London, Methuen, 1952 ix+212 pp. Map endpapers. Charts. Tables. Bibliog. Index. 712′​′×5′​′⁠. 15s. E. John Russell E. John Russell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 1953, Page 224, https://doi.org/10.2307/2609025 Published: 01 April 1953

The Public Health Responsibility Deal (RD) is a public-private partnership in England involving voluntary pledges between government, and business and other public organizations to improve public health. One such voluntary pledge refers to the reduction of trans fatty acids (TFAs) in the food supply in England by either pledging not to use artificial TFAs or pledging artificial TFA removal. This paper evaluates the RD's effectiveness at encouraging signatory organizations to remove artificially produced TFAs from their products. We analysed publically available data submitted by RD signatory organizations. We analysed their plans and progress towards achieving the TFAs pledge, comparing 2015 progress reports against their delivery plans. We also assessed the extent to which TFAs reductions beyond pre-2011 levels could be attributed to the RD. Voluntary reformulation via the RD has had limited added value, because the first part of the trans fat pledge simply requires organizations to confirm that they do not use TFAs and the second part, that has the potential to reduce use, has failed to attract the participation of food producers, particularly those producing fast foods and takeaways, where most remaining use of artificial TFAs is located. The contribution of the RD TFAs pledges in reducing artificial TFAs from England's food supply beyond pre-2011 levels appears to be negligible. This research has wider implications for the growing international evidence base voluntary food policy, and offers insights for other countries currently undertaking work to remove TFAs from their food supply.

IN a time of widening suspicion that a progressive democation exists between the demand for and the supply of food, very serious consideration is merited by any strong claim, informed by wide experience, that a proved method exists by which the productivity of soil can be greatly increased. “Ley Farming", published in the Penguin Series early in the Second World War, and now produced in a permanent form with the few slight revisions suggested by war-time experience, makes this claim. Ley Farming Sir R. George Stapledon Dr. William Davies. Revised edition, Pp. xv + 182. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1948.) 12s. 6d. net.

Britain's Food Supplies in Peace and War

ONE of the remarks made in the article in NATURE of May 11 on my survey of the “Food Value of Great Britain's Food Supply” is certainly justified, namely, “the value for protein seems low.” It is too low. This has arisen from taking an analysis for wheat flour in which the protein was 7.9 per cent., whereas it should be, more correctly, something like 10.7 per cent. Making an allowance for this difference increases the daily protein ration per man by 10.4 grams and brings it to 112.1 grams instead of 101.7. For a similar reason the carbohydrate should be reduced from 587.12 grams per man per day to 580.7 grams. Whether the fat should be reduced depends on the analysis adopted for the different kinds of meat. A recalculation, however, adopting different analyses, and perhaps, on the whole, more accurate ones, makes no material difference in the daily ration “as purchased.” It certainly affords no ground for reduction; on the contrary, it shows an increase of 1.9 grams per man per day.

Securing Britain's food supplies

The Threat to Britain's Food Supply

Government Policy and Britain's Food Supply: An Economist's View

This book, first published in 1940, is a systematic analysis of Britain’s principal food supplies and the means by which they are distributed to the people. Its calculates the total quantities of food required to feed the whole nation properly, examines pricing structures and the sources of the food stuffs. Both home produced and imported foods are covered in this survey, as are restrictions in the form of the wartime governmental controls.

Britain's food supplies.

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Addressing recruitment challenges in food and drink

In this paper I critically examine a selected set of retailer—supplier relationships in order to discern some ways in which the competitive spaces of the British food industry are actively trans-formed. It is argued that within existing research on retailer—supplier relationships the innovative capacity of retailers, their competitive strategies, and the radical ways in which they have reorganised the food supply chain remain insufficiently problematised. Against this background, I employ notions of culture, identity, and strategy in order to embrace the imaginative and creative energies which fuel the dynamism of corporate practice at the retailer—supplier interface. Corporate interviews concerning food retailers' own-brand supply relationships are drawn upon in order to ground an understanding of these energies in the organisational realities of material practices. The multiple ways in which these own-brand supply relationships are initiated and negotiated are argued to be deeply embedded in the historically and geographically specific competitive conditions which constitute the food industry, as well as being endowed with the capacity to transform the meaning of production, circulation, and consumption of food in Britain.

THE papers read at the successful International Potato Conference held in London last week indicated the many points of interest which the potato presents for plant pathologists, breeders, and cultivators; but there was no topic discussed by the experts, who dealt with the technical problems presented by the crop, which has so much interest for the general public as the place which the potato should take in our national food economy. To this subject close attention has recently been directed in connection with the uses of the potato in time of war.