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UK GOVERNMENT STEPS UP ARGUMENT ON FOOD TRADE

February 8, 2010

The long running dialogue on the ‘best’ model of trade in food and agricultural products to ensure food security inside and outside the European Union has been further enlivened by recent publication of a UK Government analysis of the issue. This clearly and unsurprisingly , emphases that only free trade will ensure both domestic and… » read more

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Brian Gardner's Blog

Commentary on European developments from the perspective of long term professional interest in European and international trade, agriculture and food policy, nurtured over three decades spent in Brussels observing and analysing the development of the CAP.

Post Brexit, new relationships between the UK and the EU and the UK and the rest of the world are a major pre-occupation. My book ‘European Agriculture: Policies, Production and Trade’ is a distillation of this experience. More recently, my analysis of the politics and technicalities of feeding 9 billion people by the mid-century is  ‘Global Food Futures – Feeding the world in 2050’, published by Bloomsbury. I continue to observe European  policy as it copes with the challenges of UK isolationism, Europe-US challenges, trade liberalisation, climate change and other environmental problems. My assessment of the realities for UK agriculture after 2020 are  set out in a recent report for Agra Europe: Preparing for Brexit.


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