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Planetary Solvency report coverage
Original report: 'Planetary Solvency: Tipping into the wild unknown' (PDF), Prof Aled Jones and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), April 2026.
'What the Models Miss: Rethinking UK food security risk', Elta Smith (BAFR team member), 27 May 2026.
'Humanity at risk and civil unrest in the UK in 10 years - experts deliver apocalyptic warning', The Mirror, 30 April 2026.
'Actuaries warn biodiversity loss is a systemic financial risk', Pensions Expert, 30 April 2026.
'Experts warn world food system could collapse without urgent action', The Independent, 30 April 2026.
'Capitalist chaos is driving global food system to collapse', Socialist Worker, 30 April 2026.
'Planetary Solvency: Tipping into the wild unknown', IFoA press release, 30 April 2026.
Barefood, the Food Systems Game coverage
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'Playing with Our Food: How Serious Games Expose Food System Vulnerabilities', Elta Smith (BAFR team member), 30 September 2025.
'What Food Businesses Can Learn From Cars and Board Games', Dan Crossley (Food Ethics Council), The Grocer, 24 June 2025.
Webinars and podcasts
'From Risk to Readiness: Pathways to UK Food Crisis and How to Prevent Them' webinar with Prof Aled Jones, Root and Reason, 18 March 2026. You can also read a summary of the webinar on the Root and Reason website.
'Pod Bites: How global conflicts impact food prices', The Food Foundation Podcast interview with Prof Aled Jones, 13 March 2026.
Blogs and reports on the food system by BAFR team members
'From Efficiency to Resilience: A New Organizing Principle for Food Policy', Elta Smith, 25 June 2026.
'Strait to the Shelves: Hormuz and the Un(Seen) Pathways of UK Food System Shocks', Elta Smith, 29 April 2026.
'Beyond crisis response: Building long-term food system resilience in the UK', Elta Smith, 11 February 2026.
'Will eating less meat and dairy reduce greenhouse gas emissions?', Tom Youngman for Economics Observatory, 3 December 2025.
'How Corporations are Addressing Food System Challenges. Summary and Reflections from World Agri-Tech and Future Food-Tech Conferences.', Maryla Hart on LinkedIn, 30 September 2025.
Articles citing members of the BAFR team
'Britain ‘sleepwalking into a food crisis’ without urgent action, experts say', The Guardian, 28 May 2026 – refers to call from a group of experts that includes Prof Aled Jones for the government to update the National Food Strategy as an issue of national security.
'UK food prices could soar if Trump invades Greenland as experts issue 'cascade' warning', Express, 18 January 2026 – quotes Prof Aled Jones on how the UK food system could be affected by the global situation around Greenland and NATO.
