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Select Committee
Nature Friendly Farming Network
 SH0030 - Soil Health

Written Evidence Mar. 15 2023

Inquiry: Soil Health
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: SH0030 - Soil Health Nature Friendly Farming Network Written Evidence

Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 10 Mar 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lampard (CON - Life peer) running of a family farming and forestry business. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) Can the noble Baroness say more about sustainable funding for women’s refuges and specialist services - Speech Link
3: Lord Monks (LAB - Life peer) It was common for my fellow male workers at the time to give their wives £5 to cover family food and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) food companies and industrial farming systems. - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Future Agriculture Policy - Wed 08 Mar 2023

Mentions:
1: None agroecology, for example. - Speech Link
2: None I would be desperate to see food production and sustainable food production in the bill and, in that - Speech Link
3: None farming and testing for sustainable farming. - Speech Link
4: None With regard to preparations for sustainable farming, my view is that uptake this coming year will be - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
COP15 Outcomes - Tue 07 Mar 2023

Mentions:
1: None The Food and Agriculture Organization has produced guidelines for the fishery sector, for example, to - Speech Link
2: None LINK calls for us to work towards 70 per cent of that funding going to nature and climate-friendly farming - Speech Link
3: Villalba, Mercedes (Lab - North East Scotland) needs, such as food security and economic resilience for rural communities? - Speech Link
4: None We have agriforestry, agroecology and organic farming—those are just three examples off the top of my - Speech Link
5: None Agroecology, which has been mentioned, has been included in one of the targets, as has organic farming - Speech Link

Select Committee
n/a
 ECFS0070 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Mar. 03 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0070 - Environmental Change and Food Security n/a Written Evidence

Select Committee
Bond
 BII0092 - Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions

Written Evidence Mar. 01 2023

Inquiry: Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: BII0092 - Investment for development: The UK’s strategy towards Development Finance Institutions Bond

Written Question
Agriculture: Ecology
Monday 20th February 2023

Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool Walton)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing funding for agroecology on levels of food insecurity.

Answered by Mark Spencer

Our food system is dependent on maintaining a healthy and sustainable natural environment, providing us with the inputs we need to continue to grow, rear and produce food domestically. This is complemented by international trade to provide our high level of food security.

Our farming reforms aim to support a highly productive food producing sector, meeting our commitment to broadly maintain current levels of food production, alongside environmental improvements that benefit us all. Our schemes will ensure our long-term food security by investing in the foundations of food production: healthy soil, water, and biodiverse ecosystems.

UK food supply comprises domestic production excluding exports, plus imported food, and the production to supply ratio has remained stable over the last two decades. Production to supply ratios are regularly kept under review as part of our wider ongoing work on food security. The UK Food Security Review is a review of the evidence landscape for all aspects of food security, and the 2024 edition will take account of any new data sources produced since 2021.

We are currently undertaking research to examine future land use and agricultural strategies to balance environmental and food production outcomes. This work is helping to inform the development of the Land Use Framework.

Select Committee
Soil Association
 ECFS0041 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Jan. 26 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0041 - Environmental Change and Food Security Soil Association Written Evidence

Select Committee
Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
 ECFS0047 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Jan. 26 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0047 - Environmental Change and Food Security Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Written

Select Committee
CPRE the countryside charity
 ECFS0063 - Environmental Change and Food Security

Written Evidence Jan. 26 2023

Inquiry: Environmental Change and Food Security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: ECFS0063 - Environmental Change and Food Security CPRE the countryside charity Written Evidence