Food Security

Articles involving: Food Security

25 Apr, 2025

Academic explains the tactics behind supermarket price wars

Food Security, Retail,

On Farming Today this week we heard a discussion about fairness in the food supply chain as supermarkets geared up for an Easter price war. Lisa…

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04 Apr, 2025

Industry insiders sound the alarm over UK food security

Food Security,

This week, a quietly circulated memo from a group calling itself Track x Food—a network of senior insiders from across the UK’s food sector—issued the starkest warning…

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03 Apr, 2025

Broken planning system is hindering business investment

Food Security, Pork, Regulation,

This week we witnessed an example of the kind of glacial, obstructive process that is hindering investment by British businesses. It's a failing planning system that…

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20 Mar, 2025

New Fairness in the Food Supply Chain Bill tabled

Farming, Food Security, Industry,

EFRA Committee Chairman Alistair Carmichael MP tabled a new bill in Parliament this week. In his speech he said that the UK food supply chain needs…

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14 Feb, 2025

Food as Critical National Infrastructure – a new take on food security

Defra, Farming, Food Security,

“Defra should conduct a more realistic assessment of food as a Critical National Infrastructure." That’s one of the conclusions of a new report from the National…

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14 Feb, 2025

UK government needs to heed the foot and mouth wake-up call

Borders, Farming, Food Security, Imports,

Our latest press release highlights the confusion in the media surrounding weaknesses in the UK’s biosecurity at borders. We make the distinction between legal commercial shipments…

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31 Jan, 2025

Land use consultation launched

Farming, Food Security,

A new consultation on the strategic approach to managing land use in England has been launched today. Despite reassurances that "This Government has a cast-iron commitment…

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24 Jan, 2025

EFRA Committee challenges Defra on farming resilience

Defra, Farming, Food Security,

The recent Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee hearing brought to light significant challenges facing the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) as…

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09 Jan, 2025

Food security and state of Defra front and centre at Oxford Farming Conference

Defra, Farming, Food Security,

Concerns were running particularly high this week at the 2025 Oxford Farming Conference where Defra minister Steve Reed promised "a cast iron commitment to food production"…

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12 Dec, 2024

Defra offers a new collaborative approach to the UK’s food strategy

Defra, Food Security, Industry,

At a recent meeting with industry food representatives, Defra’s Secretary of State, Steve Reed, outlined an ambitious new vision for the UK’s food system, marking the…

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05 Dec, 2024

AHDB analysis forecasts falling UK meat production to 2030

Beef, Exports, Food Security, Sheepmeat,

Key to the strategic planning of meat processing businesses is knowing how future cattle and sheep supplies may change. AHDB's latest analysis looked at three possible…

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27 Nov, 2024

Ditching re-location plans for Smithfield meat market could cause unintended problems

Food Security,

Following a vote by the City of London Corporation (which owns and operates the Smithfield site) to can the plan to relocate the historic meat market…

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27 Nov, 2024

New survey shows another decline in Welsh sheep flock

Farming, Food Security, Sheepmeat,

A new survey by Hybu Cig Cymru - Meat Promotion Wales shows that the size of the national sheep flock is lowest it’s been in 13…

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18 Oct, 2024

Call for a re-allocation of subsidies to stem a tide of decline in England’s beef herd

Beef, Farming, Food Security,

Britain's beef herd has reduced in size by 5% in the last year and 13% in the ten years before that. Our recent Meat Industry Manifesto details what…

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04 Sep, 2024

BMPA Meat Industry Manifesto published

Borders, Exports, Food Security,

The British Meat Processors Association is launching its first Meat Industry Manifesto. The document focuses on a worrying long-term trend of falling livestock numbers which has resulted…

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