Prof Tim Lang on why we should see food security as sustainability

20Jan2011

The only way to achieve food security is to have a sustainable food system. That’s the message from Professor Tim Lang of City University’s Centre for Food Policy, who we met at the Inside Government Food Security Conference back in November. It’s a view that challenges a lot of the conventional rhetoric surrounding food security, namely that we need to invest heavily in research and development to ramp up food production. For Professor Lang, improving the sustainability of the food system is fundamentally about changing consumption not production.

But that’s not to say the way we farm isn’t in need of a facelift. A movement away from being at the beck and call of commodity markets, growing plants more and animals less and increasing variety in fields not just on the edge of fields are all on Tim’s wish list…

 

 

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