Sustainable Food Why bother growing more here?

Andrew Jarvis: Chatham House

uncorrected quote fro EFRA Select Committee on Food Security:

”Focusing on that sustainable competitiveness and productivity, together with the indirect things the UK can do to effectively leverage its influence on the global problem through things like investing in basic research, creating public goods which are going to help solve this, not just for here but for elsewhere, creating solutions that we can sell to the wider world is a means of doing more than is feasible off the arable fields of the east of England.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmenvfru/uc213-ii/uc21302.htm