UK Asked To Take The Lead In Environmentally Friendly Food Production
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The Royal Society, a national scientific debate academy has suggested that it should be the UK at the forefront of environmentally friendly and sustainable farming research and development. Further more, they have argued that the government needs to give greater consideration to the support of local farmers and surrounding rural population, as recent agricultural developments have tended to neglect workers in favour of new automated and industrial systems. From new roaming seeding machines to factory glassware production for product bottling, they are not taking the local communities into consideration.
Responding to these requests from the Royal Society, Professor John Beddington, a leading government scientist on agriculture has stated that a “range of solutions” are needed, firstly those that secure farming the in the UK, but secondly those that help find sustainable farming methods in other countries who look to us for guidance.He said that national demand for agricultural commodities is definitely on the increase, largely as a result of the rise in the amount of dairy and meat products we are eating causing increased demand for livestock feed. It was even claimed by Beddintion that by the year 2030, we could see a fifty percent rise in food demand.
As an addition to the £50m that is currently spent on scientific research for food farming every year in the UK, the Royal Society suggested another £2bn be invested to firstly combat domestic issues, but more importantly start the process of solving the problems faced in third world and developing countries. It is these countries that have the most pressure on them to produce crops at unreasonably low cost and many have turned to the less stable farming methods in order to achieve this, which can mean they have very hard habits to break
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