According to Peter Griffiths in Scientific American, 10 August 2009, Britain wants “radical rethink” on food production:

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain must find ways to grow more food while using less water, energy and fertilizers to help feed a growing world population and offset the effects of climate change on agriculture, the government said on Monday.

OK, that makes sense. But where’s the radical part?

Farmers will have to adopt new methods to grow bigger crops while being more careful with increasingly valuable commodities such as water and fuel for machinery and fertilizers, Benn said.

OK, less water, fuel, and petrochemical fertilizers; good. But why a few farmers growing bigger crops? As The Institute for Optimum Nutrition points out,

Good food seems to have been erased from our cultural identity, yet Britain was once considered the gastronomic centre of the world.

I would bet Britain didn’t do that by cranking out bigger crops.

How about more small farmers, as well, plus urban gardens?