Government food strategy unveiled

DEFRA Secretary Hilary Benn has unveiled a Government blueprint for food policy that will present significant opportunities and challenges for farmers over the next two decades.

Launching the Government’s long-awaited ‘Food 2030’ strategy at the Oxford Farming Conference this morning (Tuesday, January 5), Mr Benn said things can no longer carry on as they are.

The way food is produced, consumed and disposed of will all have to change over the next 20 years in response to a future in which climate change, global demand for food and competition for natural resources all become increasingly important.

Food 2030 focuses on six key challenges for the food system:

• Encouraging people to eat a healthy, sustainable diet;
• Ensuring a resilient, profitable and competitive food system;
• Increasing food production sustainably;
• Reducing the food system’s greenhouse gas emissions;
• Reducing, reusing and reprocessing waste; and
• Increasing the impact of skills, knowledge, research and technology.

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