A radical overhaul of food production is needed urgently or the UK will face food shortages, a farming expert from Kent has warned. Dr Howard Lee, who runs the sustainable land management course at Hadlow College near Tonbridge, said that in as little as five years we were heading for “serious food scares”.
“We are going to be face some potential food shortages and we really need to start doing something pretty radical,” he said. “The degree I’m running produces graduates energised to make some phenomenal changes. We need to overall food production systems.” He said the UK needed to improve its self-sufficiency in terms of domestic food production.
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