The Good Food Cycle needs more than a quick oil – it needs political will

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The UK government risks getting stuck in permanent short-term mode – and that’s a problem for farmers, food sector workers and the public alike, says Dan Crossley, executive director at the Food Ethics Council

For a strategy meant to drive a “generational change in the nation’s relationship with food”, the Good Food Cycle has been strangely quiet. Instead of confident, joined-up action, businesses are getting a stop-start, drip feed of policy initiatives – some considered, others feeling like short-term firefighting.

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