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Frequently Asked Questions
The CFG has been lobbying on the issue of food security for several years - Why?
- It is concerned by the failure of successive governments to understand the important contribution of UK agriculture to long-term food security
- Food security is a global issue but which impacts directly on the UK and presents great challenges to our own food supply chain
- Global population growth over the next 40years will require a doubling of food production and this will have to be achieved from a declining area of land
- At the same time the environmental impacts of food production systems will have to be greatly reduced
- This presents tremendous innovation and technology challenges to food production globally
- The UK has a temperate climate and more stable soils than most countries, and has the capacity along with other Northern European countries, to make a significant contribution to this extra production, as well as providing a buffer to global fluctuations in food supply and price
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