Britain is facing a “slow burning” Food security crisis, Former GCHQ chief has warned.
Sir david ownership Said that the UK governments should prepare in the event of food shock, as they spoke during an event with Food Policy Professor Tim Lang and Broadcaster Adam Fleming. Is a festival in Wales.
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“If you go on the web, you will get the national risk register of the government. It has 89 different items – all these are intense crises, which are from pandemics to floods,” he told the audience.
“It doesn’t know that the burning crisis slowly is that at some point the flames will burst – and the food is one of them.
“It is politically strange for the government that there is a slow -burn crisis because you mean that some of it happened when you were in the office and when you should have you, you did not work.”
He said that when Britain was largely good in dealing with “emergency situations”, his concern is about these “slow -burning crises”, saying that the government is “a smart group of people who are actually thinking ahead” on these issues at the center of the government “.
He spoke with Professor Tim Lang, writer Feed Britain And Emeritus Professor of Food Policy for Food Policy, Center for Food Policy.
Mr. Lang highlighted the question of how both government and common people in Britain would be ready in the event of food shock.
His latest report, titled Just in Case, urges Britain to “prepare, share and care”.
He also highlighted the importance of local organizations when he came for food security.
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