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Food security: Defra engage in a phoney debate, says CLA The CLA today (Monday, 10 August) said that Defra's new policy papers on food security added little new to the debate. CLA President Henry Aubrey-Fletcher said: "The CLA has been highlighting the rapidly growing problem of food security for two years now. Defra has been slow to weigh in on the issue and while it has been consulting on food security for the past 12 months, these papers offer little new - this is a phoney debate."
"The biggest deception is that, while talking sympathetically about the need for more UK-produced food, they hold fast to their core strategy which will do the opposite. The Government knows their own indicator of farm income –Total Income From Farming - shows that without the direct support payments of the Common Agricultural Policy, farm incomes, in real terms, were negative in seven of the last eleven years.
The CLA President pointed out that Defra's policy, encouraged by The Treasury, is to eliminate, as far as possible, direct payments under the CAP between now and 2020. "They decline to mention these facts and do not mention the impacts that could be expected of this policy on farming incomes, the number of farms which would survive, the effects on production, imports and food security, or to the rural environment," he said.
"We need to have an open and honest debate about the desirability of this.
"The CLA will continue to press its argument that the core policy for EU food and farming, the CAP, must further evolve to be a policy for Food and Environmental Security with the resources appropriate to the task."
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