UK food security 'at risk' - report

LONG TERM declines in the natural environment and worsening climate change pose serious risks to UK food security, a Government report has warned.

The latest three-yearly report on food security has found the UK was 75% self-sufficient in the food that can be grown in this country last year, and produced the equivalent of 62% of overall food consumed.

While the figures are broadly unchanged in the past two decades, the report warned that long-term declines in “natural capital” – resources such as clean water, healthy soils and wildlife such as pollinators – are a pressing risk to UK food production.