To Our Investors - Food Supply Chain Risk and Resilience
3rd April 2025.
Inside Track have published a memo written by a group of senior professionals working within some of the UK's biggest food retailers, producers and manufacturers, highlighting 'an interconnected set of crises' threatening the food industry
In their words, “Yield, quality, and predictability of supply from many of our most critical sourcing regions is not something we will be able to rely upon over the coming years.
The data on degrading soil health, water scarcity, global heating and extreme weather events back up what we are seeing from within the system: an interconnected set of crises.
These crises will have a meaningful commercial impact on our businesses, and yet we feel that there are a number of structural and cultural issues that are preventing the severity of this challenge being fully accepted by industry or fully shared with our investors.”
You can download the full memo below.
Media Coverage:
The Grocer: Whistleblowers warn UK food industry heading for climate disaster
Forbes: A food system in crisis - why investors must rethink risk management
Food Navigator: Food industry ‘disaster’ imminent investors warned by insiders
The Times: Will the UK’s food supply really collapse by 2030?
Business Green: 'Deteriorating supply chains': Why an anonymous group of food industry insiders is raising the alarm over climate resilience
Edie: Food industry stalwarts sound the alarm, saying climate and nature risks are underestimated
Environmental Finance: Investors being given 'false confidence' about state of food system
Financial Times: The food industry must face up to nature-related risk