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Food security
30 August 2024
Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
24 July 2024
On 14 May, the second Farm to Fork Summit was held at Downing Street and the first UK Food Security Index was published.
24 April 2024
Defra have announced that there will be limits to the amount of land businesses are able to put into the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme. Businesses will only be able to put 25% of their land into the six land sparing SFI actions, those actions taking land out of food production.
24 April 2024
Food security is in the spotlight. There is increasing focus on food security due to global unrest, food shortages, climate change and other shocks such as the pandemic. More recently, at the NFU conference, the Prime Minister announced further commitments to food security reporting and funding for domestic production.
24 April 2024
Will it really pay to take farmland out of production and capitalise on high paying agri-environment actions? We consider the various considerations and implications at play.
24 April 2024
At the beginning of the year, we published an article in response to the UK government report on food security in the UK. Since then, it has become an increasingly important topic across governments, industry, and the public, with threats to food security coming from the impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war and the cost of living crisis.
28 March 2024
The UK government have committed to publishing a report relating to food security in the UK at least once every three years as part of the Agriculture Act 2020 and the first report was published just before Christmas.
2 October 2019
The course, aimed at practical people wishing to gain more knowledge on quality issues, highlights the distinction between carcase and meat quality and will explore the factors affecting eating quality from farm to fork. Various quality issues will be identified and the means to reduce or improve these outlined.