Ensuring the UK’s Food Security in a Changing World.
On 17 July Defra published a discussion paper on food security: Ensuring the UK’s Food Security in a Changing World (PDF 140 KB). We need to respond to changing circumstances and this paper aims to contribute to that debate by:
- describing the trends that have led to the current global situation;
- setting out the challenges that will continue to impact the food chain; and
- discussing whether the UK food supply chain is sufficiently resilient to withstand short term shocks and sufficiently robust to face long term challenges.
We have set up an e-mail address: foodmatters.security@defra.gsi.gov.uk to act as a portal for views on the UK’s food security. The views we receive on this discussion document and from a series of expert workshops and stakeholder events that we plan to hold will inform a more detailed statement of our food security policy, that we intend to publish later in the year. This will help start the process of engagement on a key issue identified in Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century.
Page published: 17 July 2008