commissioned report urges UK food resilience strategy to safeguard supplies
- A report commissioned by Associated British Foods calls for a national food resilience strategy to 2050 to safeguard Britain's food supplies.
- Recommendations include targeted industrial energy cost relief and trade policies protecting critical domestic food manufacturing capacity.
- Food prices have risen around 40% since 2020, while high industrial energy costs are squeezing manufacturers.
- Britain's £162 billion agri-food sector supports approximately 4.1 million jobs; food manufacturing contributes £39 billion to the economy.
- Without adaptation, 2° warming could cut high-quality farmland's share across England and Wales from around 40% to 10% by 2050.
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