Food and Farming question from Jeremy Chamberlayne, Maisemore Court

At the Future of Local Food and Farming debate that took place at Newent Community School on 3 April 2009,Jeremy Chamberlayne submitted the following question:

Clearly, in the interests of maintaining a reliable food supply and of minimising the use of finite inputs and of carbon footprint, the importance of local food should be emphasised. Yet, in Gloucestershire, much land has been given over to leisure use and development, while DEFRA, NE and EA (to name a few) are contriving to take yet more out of production with various environmental schemes and, particularly by threatening some of the floodable parts of this rather floodable county with "managed retreat".  Would bureaucratic time not be better spent in promoting production, rather than limiting it?

(We ran out of time before this question could be put to the panel.)

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