The future of food
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil. And I'm Pippa. Many of us don't think twice about where the food in our kitchen comes from. One trip to the supermarket and we can buy anything we want, whether that's fruit grown in South America, tomatoes from Spain or rice flown in from Asia. Do you know where the food you buy comes from, Neil?
I try to pay attention and buy stuff that's locally produced, but actually sometimes I don't really look. How about you? I actually have a calendar on my kitchen wall which tells me which fruits and vegetables are grown at what times of year.
What are the implications of food security on national security?
The reality is that the supply of fresh food to the UK is fragile. The UK imports around 40% of its food, and this supply chain can easily be disrupted by wars, shortages and increasingly by climate change. In fact, the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recently reported on the importance of food security, the term for having a reliable enough supply of affordable, healthy food to feed everyone.
In this episode we'll be investigating the issues affecting food production in the UK. As usual, we'll learn some useful new vocabulary, and remember there's a quiz, worksheet and transcript of this episode on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
But first of course, Pippa, I have a quiz question for you. I mentioned that Britain imports 40% of its food from other producers, mostly in Europe. But which European country does the UK import the most food from? Is it a. France, b. The Netherlands or c. Ireland? I've seen the Netherlands on a lot of food packaging in the UK, so I'm going to say b. The Netherlands. Okei, well, we'll find out if you're right later in the programme. According to the UK government's recent report, there are many issues affecting Britain's food supply. Geopolitical conflicts like those in Ukraine and Iran, droughts and water shortages, loss of biodiversity caused by climate change. The list goes on and on. Here, climate reporter Mark Pointing discusses the report's conclusions with BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme.
It really draws on scientific research to come up with what it calls as a reasonable worst case scenario for how biodiversity loss could affect UK security. Its conclusions are really quite stark. The first line of the report says global ecosystem degradation and collapse threatens the UK's national security.
Mark says the report's conclusions are stark, an adjective which in this case means obvious or severe. Another problem with food security relates to climate change. Carbon emissions from food production make up around a third of all greenhouse gases, from the diesel used to drive tractors to fertilizers to cows and sheep producing methane.
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