Why should the UK grow food?
The UK has imported food for well over a thousand years. During the industrial revolution, we lost self-sufficiency in basic foodstuffs and have never regained it. We have always been able to buy food...
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UK agriculture needs to be more competitive, says Jim Godfrey. As farmers we want a competitive farming industry because that is what will be sustainable in the longer term. A competitive industry is...
View ArticleWhat are priority research questions for the UK food system?
A new Global Food Security programme paper tallies votes to focus action. John Ingram reports. As part of its work to understand the drivers of food security, colleagues and I in the UK’s Global Food...
View ArticleFuture shocks: how resilient is the UK food system to extreme global weather...
Global Food Security programme Champion Tim Benton summarises specially commissioned GFS reports on the topic. Rarely a week goes by without there being news of weather records being broken. We have...
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