New report on UK agriculture and Peak Oil now available

January 7, 2007

Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas. The report calls on the Government to establish a Royal Commission on Food Security to examine the issue – and for the UK ’s Competition Commission to consider its findings in its ongoing investigation of the supermarkets’ dominance of the food retailing sector.

Read the report - Fuelling a Food Crisis

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