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Could climate change lead to food-related civil unrest in UK within 50 years?

Sarah Bridle, University of York, and Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University

23 October 2023 • 5 min read

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Study shows UK must prepare for, and respond to, the risks associated with future food shortages, write the University of York's Sarah Bridle and Anglia Ruskin University's Aled Jones

The emptying of supermarket shelves during the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK's food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the...

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