Real Farming Trust reposted this
🚨Out now: Report argues Britain’s food economy needs to properly reward good food and farming. Today, new analysis from FFCC's Dr Charlie Taverner shows the real impact of a dysfunctional food system built around cheap food at all costs. Farmers and the public are losing out. 🍔 Push for low-cost calories has cheapened British food over decades 📉 Farming incomes have barely improved in real terms for 50 years 🛒 Tiny number of big businesses now dominate Britain’s food chain 🌾 UK’s long-term food resilience at risk in volatile world facing climate change 💪 Government must fix dysfunctional economy for public benefit Read Helena Horton's exclusive in The Guardian 👉 https://lnkd.in/eu-zY36C Go straight to the report 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9Vs856k
An excellent and very topical executive summary
‘Political leaders need to change the rules of the game, so that growing healthy, sustainably grown food in ways that build food security and resilience is properly rewarded’ Queensland Farmers' Federation Queensland Fruit & Vegetable Growers National Farmers' Federation
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1moRachel Fisher - of interest???