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Select Committee
School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Country Land and Business Association, and Harvest London

Oral Evidence Jun. 07 2023

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

Found: School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Country Land and Business Association, and Harvest London

Select Committee
Harper Adams University, and George Monbiot, author of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

Oral Evidence Jun. 07 2023

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

Found: Harper Adams University, and George Monbiot, author of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Future Agriculture Policy - Wed 26 Apr 2023

Mentions:
1: None organisations that have called for agroecology, for example. - Speech Link
2: None need people in this country who want to go into food and farming. - Speech Link
3: None We did some analysis on sustainable farming incentives. I appreciate that that related to DEFRA. - Speech Link
4: None There are sustainable food systems and models that use ruminants as part of the system, and we advocate - Speech Link

Select Committee
Khepera CIC and Empower to Cook CIC
 HSI0006 - Horticultural sector

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2023

Inquiry: Horticultural sector
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Horticultural Sector Committee

Found: HSI0006 - Horticultural sector Khepera CIC and Empower to Cook CIC Written Evidence

Scottish Parliament Committee
Letter from the Climate Change Committee, 6 April 2023
 Future agriculture policy in Scotland

Correspondence Apr. 06 2023

Inquiry: Future agriculture policy in Scotland
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Found: Support should be made available to encourage low -carbon farming methods, such as sustainable stocking

Select Committee
Soil Association
 SH0066 - 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: food and farming system, a belief we still share today.

Select Committee
Norwich Research Park
 INS0023 - Insect decline and UK food security

Written Evidence May. 17 2023

Inquiry: Insect decline and UK food security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

Found: INS0023 - Insect decline and UK food security Norwich Research Park Written Evidence

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

Select Committee
University of Cambridge, and The Wildlife Trusts

Oral Evidence Jul. 12 2023

Inquiry: Insect decline and UK food security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

Found: University of Cambridge, and The Wildlife Trusts Oral Evidence

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.