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Brexit round-up
The opportunities and risks of Brexit continue to preoccupy policy makers and Sustain member organisations. We summarise recent activity here.
The Welsh Affairs Committee of the Westminster government has announced an Inquiry into Agriculture in Wales post-Brexit, and is accepting written submissions. Find out more here.
Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Energy and Environment sub-committee has launched an Inquiry into farm animal welfare post-Brexit. This is a short inquiry that will take evidence from key industry representatives and academic experts -- more information here. Still in Westminster, the farmer and veteran food policy maker Lord Curry threw his weight behind the idea of an independent commission on the future of food and farming, post-Brexit (Lord Curry chaired the first such Commission, in 2001). Read more here.
In Scotland, the Food Standards Agency (FSS) commissioned a survey to gauge consumers' attitudes to possible changes in food regulation, and found 'a high level of satisfaction with current food safety and food standards requirements and very little appetite for change'. The survey results are outlined in the Minutes of FSS March Board Meeting, available here.
Also in Scotland, the UN Special rapporteur on the Right to Food, Hilal Elver, commented that a hard Brexit would bring challenges to Scotland’s Good Food Nation Bill. Dr Elver was in Scotland to discuss progress on Scotland's pioneering Bill, designed to enshrine the right to sustainable food. Find out more here.
Last but not least, Sustain member the Soil Association has produced a report setting out six 'game-changing' ideas for UK farming outside the EU: more information here.
Sustain coordinates the work of a range of organisations seeking to protect and improve food sustainability in the light of Brexit: find out more here.
Published Friday 24 March 2017
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