In this report the Food Ethics Council asked experts to look at the UK’s position on a number of issues in the Food Sustainability Index (created by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation) and to state how, in their view, the country could do better.
Areas in which the UK performed well are:
- Quality of R&D and innovation
- Quality of animal welfare regulation
- Policies to address food losses,
- Initiatives to recycle water for agricultural use
- The degree of property rights protection
- Prevalence of undernourishment
- Relatively low rates of micronutrient deficiency (vitamin A)
Areas in which they were outperformed by other countries are:
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Childhood obesity (the UK ranks 20th out of 25 in terms of prevalence of overweight in
2-18 year olds.) - Participation of youth in farming (the UK comes bottom of the table, 25th out of 25)
- Serious issues around biodiversity loss driven by the UK population’s eating habits
- Lack of diversity in the UK’s food system in terms of food and farming business types and sizes
To read more and to download the report, see this webpage.
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