Britain’s food self-sufficiency at risk, report claims

Author Damien Wilde
Posted On 1st July 2014

A new report has been released that has shown our ever-growing reliance on foreign food and produce.

The United Kingdom’s ‘self-sufficiency ratio’ has declined from almost 90% in the early 1990s to a figure just below 70%, thus potentially jeopardising our own food security a paper has warned.

The ratio measures the amount of home-grown and self-produced food on these shores when compared to imported produce.

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