Here in the UK it’s been a long time since there were either food shortages or significant and ongoing increases in the cost of food. Back in the 1970s food disappeared from supermarket shelves and cost more every time you went shopping mostly because of non-food-related issues like inflation and strikes. In the 21st Century, however, the availability of food is shaping up to be impacted upon severely by the weather changing around the world. While in the north of Britain we’ve suffered the fourth grey and wet July in a row, with August so far proving pretty damn miserable [...]