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OPINION: Failure to take food security seriously now will lead to empty shelves sooner rather than later

If war in the Middle East has taught us anything, it is that the UK needs to build a resilient food system which values domestic food production and the farmers who work incredibly hard to make that a reality

Chris Brayford
clock 鈥� 3 min read
"It feels like ministers and civil servants do not see the economic value of domestic food production and food resilience to the UK as a whole."
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"It feels like ministers and civil servants do not see the economic value of domestic food production and food resilience to the UK as a whole."

The world is a very uncertain place. Perhaps more so than it has felt for many years going back to the Cold War era. If Russia's invasion of Ukraine was not a big enough wake-up call four years ago,...

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