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Food security
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.
22 April 2024
Levy payers should be mindful of the risks that could affect their businesses and how they can continue to produce food sustainably and build the UK’s food security.
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.
24 March 2022
The UK and Canada have launched negotiations on a new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Ottawa
23 March 2022
Analyst Jess Corsair explores the issue of UK food security in light of Ukraine war
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.
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1 July 2022
Blog outlining the detail of NZ-UK deal for ag products
22 December 2021
What you need to know right now about the UK-Australia FTA
7 December 2021
Rachel Rose takes a look at just what Brits think about imported food products against the backdrop of trade negotiations with Australia and the US
30 July 2021
Tom Forshaw looks at the contentious issue of food standards in future trade deals and why media attention might be focusing on the wrong things.