All Food security articles
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NewsAgriculture has been ‘undervalued for too long’: Minette Batters
Speaking after submitting her farm profitability review findings to Defra, Batters warned there needed to be more cohesion and a greater valuing of agriculture
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Comment & OpinionChocolate-free Penguins point to a bigger issue in our food system
It’s clear that climate change, along with resource constraints and geopolitics, are converging to make food production less stable and more expensive, says Jim Mellon, executive chairman of Agronomics
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Comment & OpinionThe cost of cheap meat and why industry insiders are breaking rank
Inside Track, as the group calls itself, is not a group of radical, leftwing firebrands. They are leading executives from a raft of major food companies who feel compelled to demand change
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NewsParliamentary group warns of 32% drop in food production without urgent action
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture said domestic food production could decline by 39% per capita
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NewsFarm closures key driver of beef prices, consultancy firm says
Inverto pointed to the closure of 8.5% of cattle farms since 2020
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Comment & OpinionSmall food producers pay for net zero while others benefit
The risks and costs of transformation are carried by the smallest actors while the reputational benefits accrue upstream, says Dr Rounaq Nayak, senior lecturer in farming systems at the University of the West of England Bristol
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NewsThe Felix Project adds apple farm to growing food rescue list
London’s largest food distribution charity started picking apples from Hazel Street Farm in Kent, which donated the orchards as the crop became less financially viable
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NewsM&S boss Machin calls for EU SPS talks to be ‘sped up’
The Windsor Framework, had introducing ’a lot of cost, a lot of complexity and impacting our product range and product shelf lives’, Machin said
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NewsUK unprepared for climate challenges now and for the future, Climate Change Committee warns
The CCC said the UK had not yet adapted to ’the changes in weather and climate that we are living with today, let alone those that are expected over coming decades’
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NewsLidl doubles sourcing commitment with £30bn investment in UK food
The discounter said the pledge strengthened its commitment to backing British suppliers and supported long-term sustainable growth across the sector
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NewsUK food needs radical and urgent transformation, new study finds
The report, The Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050, has said that if there is no action the UK will lurch from crisis to crisis, including from food price shocks, climate disasters and weakening economic productivity
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Comment & OpinionRegenerative farming is vital but needs proper funding
Unlike conventional practices that strip soils of nutrients, regenerative agriculture rebuilds them, says Philip Rayner, co-founder & MD of Glebe Farm
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Analysis & FeaturesIGD conference: is industry up to the challenges ahead?
Action is needed to boost food security and avoid environmental disaster. Can businesses stay focused and rely on government?
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NewsEat-Lancet calls for major reduction in meat consumption
The agrifood sector was the ’single most influential driver of planetary boundary transgression’, said the Eat-Lancet Commission
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Comment & OpinionIndustry at a crossroads: which path will it take and do minsters care?
At today’s IGD conference speaker after speaker detailed the huge challenges facing food and drink
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NewsDry winter is a ‘big threat’ to supply, warns leading grower
After a hot, dry summer, diminished water supplies across the country could lead to issues with next year’s plantings
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NewsFood sector calls for government action on UK food security
The businesses, including the major multiples, suppliers including Noble Foods, 2 Sisters and Barfoots, and the NFU, have written to the farming minister
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Comment & OpinionFood price inflation will bring down Starmer’s government
Sustained food price inflation promises to fuel a cost of living crisis which is immediately obvious to anyone who goes in a supermarket or convenience store (which probably excludes the PM), says Ian Wright, partner at Acuti Associates
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NewsAlmost a quarter of UK farmland could be lost to other industries by 2050, study warns
Self-sufficiency could collapse under current government environmental and net-zero policies, warned the report
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat food and drink will the UK grow as temperatures rise?
Climate change is reshaping what we grow and where we grow it — raising opportunities but also threats as to how we can keep feeding ourselves