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	<title>Comments on: Waking up to food security</title>
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	<description>A piecemeal investigation into the origins of our food</description>
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		<title>By: anonymous</title>
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		<description>We only produce 80% of the temperate produce we consume.

This is the important part. With increased efficiency and by shifting more pastoral land to agriculture we could easily boost this to 100%.
At the end of the day the temperate crops such as wheat, potatoes and apples are vastly more important than non-temperate produce such as bananas and rice.

What I&#039;am interested in is how much a country can produce itself, what it can produce should be maximised. Of course we can still keep importing food and warm climate produce, but we should aim close to 100% cool climate, staple crop self-sufficiency, a sort of strategic food reserve if you like.
We can always import cool climate crops too, since subsisting on our own crops would be quite a limiting existence, but we do need to be 100% self-sufficient (or close) at a staples and decent diet level in case the worst case happens.

Thanks for the figures, I&#039;ve been wondering for a long time how self-sufficient in cool-weather crops we are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We only produce 80% of the temperate produce we consume.</p>
<p>This is the important part. With increased efficiency and by shifting more pastoral land to agriculture we could easily boost this to 100%.<br />
At the end of the day the temperate crops such as wheat, potatoes and apples are vastly more important than non-temperate produce such as bananas and rice.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;am interested in is how much a country can produce itself, what it can produce should be maximised. Of course we can still keep importing food and warm climate produce, but we should aim close to 100% cool climate, staple crop self-sufficiency, a sort of strategic food reserve if you like.<br />
We can always import cool climate crops too, since subsisting on our own crops would be quite a limiting existence, but we do need to be 100% self-sufficient (or close) at a staples and decent diet level in case the worst case happens.</p>
<p>Thanks for the figures, I&#8217;ve been wondering for a long time how self-sufficient in cool-weather crops we are.</p>
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