The government has published its National Food Strategy white paper, a belated response to the “field to fork” review of the UK food system launched in July 2019 by Michael Gove when he was Defra minister. The rationale was to link...
Organisations and researchers along the UK’s crop improvement pipeline have welcomed the National Food Strategy’s call for greater uptake of genetic technologies in the sustainable intensification of crop growing to lift productivity, resource use efficiency and...
This week’s long-awaited National Food Strategy (NFS) report, which will inform future government policy, has been largely welcomed by industry bodies. The ambitious aim to design a national “field to fork” food strategy linking food production, diet and the nation’s...
Current Defra secretary of state Michael Gove has launched a “field to fork” review of the UK food system, to inform a new National Food Strategy scheduled for publication in 2020. He says this is the first major review of the UK food system in nearly 75 years. The...