Posted on 25th January 2026 by Prof. David Hughes & Miguel Flavian The blog is back, returning to one of the hottest (and most enthusiastically argued-over) topics in the UK food and farming debate of the moment. We do recognise…
Who’s top of the global league in land-based meat consumption? It’s chicken, but that wasn’t the case 12 years ago. Whereas ALL the major meats (chicken, pork, beef, lamb) have seen global market growth since 2013, chicken has screamed ahead…
Wherever one looks. North America, Europe, Australasia, Japan, per capita fresh fruit and vegetable consumption is drifting downwards. What’s going on? Everybody knows that they’re essential for our health but very few of us get even close to meeting our…
If you’re in the fresh produce business, you’d think it reasonable to conclude: “right time, right place”! Around the globe, consumers put “eating more healthily” pretty much at the top of their “To Do” list for 2025 and it’s for…
The pandemic may be done and dusted but, by any measure, we’re living in turbulent times. Note to senior management, expect the unexpected! Mind you, we’re not going to run out of customers: over the next 25 years (up to…
There’s 8+ billion people in our world and most eat meat – across the globe, average meat consumption is about 45 kg. per capita. By, 2050, we’ll have added another 1.5 billion food consumers, most living in Asia and Africa,…
Fresh food – fruit & vegetables, meat, etc. – takes a battering when household incomes are under stress. In the meat department, chicken sales soar as they’re the lowest-priced protein. For fruit & veg., the research evidence is scanty, but…
The business of producing food has never been a piece of cake (apart from growing cress on a damp kitchen towel), particularly for farmers. It’s extraordinarily challenging when tragic wars are bringing upward pressure on the costs and even availability…
Farmers are often grumpy. It’s the unpredictable elements of their business such as tussling with the vagaries of the weather, market prices, awkward customers and regulators, and coping with the peccadillos of their neighbours and wayward countryside visitors. But, right now, they’re angry even…
The USA is a Big Beast in geographic size, population and economic and political clout. Back in 2020, spurred by the Conservative Government’s desire to be seen as a nimble, swashbuckling free trader unencumbered by sclerotic EU bureaucracy, negotiations were…
Supermarkets in your pocket. 