The U.K and our Challenge to Food Insecurity

To write a blog on the insecurity of food to a developed country like England, I'm going to refer to the U.K as a wh*** in this case is complex, because a multi-faced definition of food insecurity exists and well I know on the surface many might think...is she crazy? So therefore I am going to define food insecurity first:


So in the U.K what do we currently have? All of the above? To a degree..but I look deeper and into the future. That's were I can start answering this question...The U.K's main insecurity is the Future...Climate Change...The risk of health to today's generation in the future due to how we currently are producing food...the reliability and security of the current trade infrastructure. To be more detailed; its estimated around 40% of British food is imported, so what are we to do if the world can no longer supply us?The only reason its not higher than that is due to the CAP programme of the EU.

With this reduction largely due to also finding developing countries better enviroments, space for food to be grown and supermarkets extorting this with unfair trading, but cheap produce, is this not only going to grow? It already has and with greater diversity in the country a demand unseen in many places for culture diverse foods, what is the U.K going to do to feed its diverse nation if climate changed has whiped out parts of Asia or Africa? If Climate change and No change in Government input in sustaining, investing and bringing Western technology to these developing nations, these products might no longer be available and well a lot of people will be unhappy, let alone lost in how to cook and eat nutriently.

Jamie Oliver changed lunch menu's but the rest of the currently grown population and even still many of those children, how many will know how to eat nutriently, what is healthy and even how to cook without killing the nutrients? That too is a great worry, especially in the U.K where we have a welfare system with public Healthcare? Doctor's on here please post if I'm wrong but nutrition is very essential for health, well-being and disease prevention. With all this MG, chemically pumped chickens and crops with not grown with only healthy chemicals to stop fungis growth,etc and a move to more organic means, healthier and more sustainable means both in transport and growth...goodluck NHS and poverty as a result of a reduced working population.

Currently the food is affordable, but a lot not healthy. More Organics, Fair trade and even teaching in local sustainability if we really are to face a potential climate change wipe out or 2012 prediction where its not exactly known where might be hit worst, we all should prepare to learn more about being able to grow food in our back yard, just in case, which is why I am informing about ANIA (Thank you Agent Heyming) myself to learn, while here in Lima :-).

Meanwhile too...why won't the EU support economic theory, Adam Smith/David Ricardo? We're facing a ageing population and less fertility rate growth so really supporting other nations and their development, learning, migration is going to be beneficial in the long run for all nations to be sustainable, ensuring all cultures sustain and all catered for.

I'm going to leave it at that at the moment...the next will be describing a direct project/organisations in the U.K trying to fight and help the future scare as we speak and share what I have just done above...Hope you read then too...