Ministers have been urged to consider “large-scale national food stockpiling” by the influential Climate Change Committee (CCC) to stave off future disruption to supplies.
In its Fourth Climate Risk Assessment, the CCC also said government should undertake “systemic stress-testing in the medium to long term to work out what could go catastrophically wrong in the food system”.
Alongside these recommendations, the committee proposed a formal target for domestic food production to be “sustainably maintained at 60% at least” until 2050, as part of the country’s long-term climate adaptation strategy.
Professor Tim Lang, emeritus professor of food policy at City St George’s, University
