An urgent work is needed to secure food supply in the United Kingdom in the face of the harsh weather caused by climate change, the imposition of definitions and global insecurity, a report has been warned.
Days after US President Donald Trump, Warning that Europe will be the next definitions of trade After it Tax fees imposed on Canada, China and MexicoThe report said that the UK Food System in the United Kingdom is no longer appropriate for the country, and the country’s food security was in an unstable state.
After eight years of Britain’s vote from the European Union in the United Kingdom, the country still has any coherent food policy, despite the fact that nearly a third of our food still comes from the European Union.
The author of the report, Tim Lang, an honorary professor of food policy at City Saint George, University of London, called for new legislation to ensure that the state would be forced to feed the public at a time of the crisis.
There is a need to increase local production, as well as changes in food distribution systems, enter the exchange of flexibility education from the city to the town, and research the current thinking about storage and legalization in order to better prepare the country for food shocks, according to food shocks. Report of the National Preparation Committee.
“To protect our future, we must give priority to flexibility at every level – from local communities to national frameworks,” Lang said.
“There is a gap between the official risk framework and the flexibility framework that provides a picture stating that everything is fine, and the facts that people read in the roles of the front lines differently.
“There is a lot of satisfaction with food security in the UK and the elasticity of civil food is barely distinguished in planning forward.”
The acute shocks on the food supplies were in the foreground, according to the authors of the report, such as the effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, A major global source of wheat, corn and sunflower oilCovid-19 economic turmoil, unexpected commercial track disturbance The second worst since 1983.
More than 70 people from the food, government, academic circles and community groups about the risks, vastness, options and recommendations on how to improve the elasticity of diet.
In particular, they gave advice on how to help societies prepare for food shortages and tolerate it and other crises in the show.
The report highlighted the capabilities of copying initiatives at the level of al -Qaeda, which often operate before the central government to ensure that societies are flexible for shocks on food supplies.
Lord Toby Harris, Chairman of the National Preparation Committee, said: “Food security is the cornerstone of national flexibility.
“This report highlights the urgent need for a coordinated approach and a full society to ensure that no person in the UK is left weak in the face of future crises.”
Harris said the risk of our nutritional systems was more clear than ever. He said: “From the floods in the main agricultural areas to unrest in global trade, we face the meeting of threats that can undermine our ability to feed ourselves.”
The report came as a group of food organizations including the National Farmers Union, and many of the largest supermarkets and food producers sent a message to the treasury it urges to rethink Changes in the budget -announced inheritance taxSaying that removing relief from agricultural property and relief from commercial property will threaten long -term stability for food flexibility in the country.
