To think Britain should start growing it’s own food again?

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The situation in the Ukraine clearly isn’t going to resolve any time soon. The lack of grain from Ukraine is pushing prices higher. Add in further political instability in other parts of the world to the mix. We are always told that IK farming isn’t competitive but with the rising prices, it can be and furthermore; having home grown produce is seeming like it will be more necessary in the future. AIBU?

I only read the first few pages of this but the U.K. is the 9th most food secure country on the Global Food Security ranking so it’s not doing too badly.
You probably don’t need to conscript school leavers to work on farms just yet.

All of this makes sense. Maybe as climate change starts making our lives noticeably less comfortable, people will come around to these sensible measures.

Yeah. And all the extra vegetation and foliage will help too, however small or how long its there for.

The Land Army. Many packed into cities with few options would actually welcome the chance - and the rest need basic education on the fundamentals of how life is sustained.
But they need housing and safety.

The Global Food Security index is not a measure of whether or not a country can grow its own food. It includes the ability to import food, import tariffs, the affordability of food, GDP and much more.

It is 200 years since the UK could grow enough to feed itself. Even during WW2, the UK when every square inch of available land was farmed and there was strict rationing, the country was reliant on imports getting through.

I believe the wheat problem is that we can grow wheat but not the right wheat for the full range of things that we used it for.