Tim Lang (nutritionist)
Timothy Mark Lang (born January 1948) is Emeritus professor of food policy at City University London's[1] Centre for Food Policy since 2002. He founded the Centre in 1994[2] and also founded the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment.[3]
In February 2024, Lang authored a report for the National Preparedness Commission on food security, specifically civil resilience in protecting the UK food supply.[4][5][6]
Selected publications
- Atlas of Food (with E Millstone, Earthscan 2003/2008)
- Food Policy (with D Barling and M Caraher, Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Ecological Public Health (with Geof Rayner, Routledge Earthscan, 2012)
- Food Wars (with Michael Heasman, Routledge, 2015)
- Unmanageable Consumer (with Yiannis Gabriel, Sage, 2015)
- A Food Brexit: Time to get real (2017) (With Erik Millstone & Terry Marsden)
- "Coronavirus: rationing based on health, equity and decency now needed – food system expert", The Conversation, 2020.
- Feeding Britain, Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them. Penguin, 2020.[7]
References
- ^ Bloom, Jonty (26 March 2020). "How are food supply networks coping with coronavirus?" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Professor Tim Lang". City, University of London.
- ^ "Professor Tim Lang — Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment". www.cfse.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ Laville, Sandra (6 February 2025). "Urgent action needed to ensure UK food security, report warns". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
- ^ "NFU responds to warnings in NPC report on food security". NFUonline. 6 February 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
- ^ Grylls, Bethan (26 February 2025). "UK food security in 'precarious state'". FoodManufacture.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
- ^ "Feeding Britain, Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them". City, University of London.
External links
- Diet, health, inequality: why Britain's food supply system doesn't work
- 'No guidance, no forward planning': what's wrong with Britain's food supply