La Gran Bretagna sta entrando sonnambulo in una crisi alimentare senza un’azione urgente, dicono gli esperti | Ambiente
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/28/britain-sleepwalking-into-a-food-crisis-without-urgent-action-experts-say
di JackStrawWitchita
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“Food prices were already on track to be 50% higher this November than they were five years ago, and the current weather – with more heatwaves likely to follow in the summer, when temperatures could top 40C – is adding to the inflationary pressure.
Even if the Iran war is resolved soon, fuel and fertiliser prices will stay high until the supply crunch through the strait of Hormuz can be eased. Last week, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, floated the idea of voluntary price caps on staple foods, but was knocked back by supermarkets and opposition parties.
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Tim Lang, a professor emeritus of food policy at City St George’s, University of London, said the government’s current strategy amounted to little more than “business as usual” and that warnings were not being heeded.
“This government has received serious scientific, intelligence and policy advice that it should take significant action on food security, but it keeps signalling all is OK. It’s not,” Lang told the Guardian. “Whether we see food security as an issue of escalating food poverty and deepening cost of living squeeze or as the ‘hard’ version of security as defence, there are no grounds for complacency.”
Crisis, crisis, crisis. Crisis crisis, crisis crisis. Crisis crisis crisis.
It doesn’t help that despite being a farming nation, much of our food is imported !
Your daily imminent crisis, courtesy of the Guardian.
Tl;dr some people want government money spent on their businessess or areas of expertise.
Is there anything that’s not in crisis at the moment? Housing, jobs, economy, migration, food, climate, mental health, NHS
What a time to be alive in the UK
Another day, another crisis. Food crisis here, youth unemployment crisis there.
At least its sunny outside again today.
We really need to be supporting domestic fertiliser methods (I know it’s not possible for all crops), but helping farmers to build resilient food networks and nutrients cycles so we protect our soil and yields without imported measures (anaerobic digesters, regenerative measures, reduced monoculture planting, shared resources etc). It’s worth stressing our yields now to prevent worse stress down the line
The UK is completely asleep at the wheel in all matters, this is no different. We just coast forward making no decisions. Even when we say we’re making changes, it’s always something another country has implemented already that we’re copying. Well done us.
My pet peeve about green parties across the EU including Britain has been their influence on the anti-GMO stance. Climate change is real and we could have spent the last 20 years setting up GMO crops to deal with it.
Food riots would lead to a right wing authoritarian takeover of the UK. While many here yawn about ‘yet another crisis’ , very large numbers of the population are already struggling with the cost of living and are becoming increasingly desperate. A serious increase in the cost of food can very likely lead to political ramifications that will affect us all.
In simple terms: The UK hasn’t been completely food self-sufficient since before industrialisation, roughly mid-1700s.
The whole reason the UK started food imports was because of famine and crop failures.
Unfortunately, Brexit has had a negative effect on food prices and availability.