Cheap food, it seems, is a thing of the past and change is coming to our food system, whether we like it or not. Should Britain feed itself? Can Britain feed itself?
In two programmes, this week and next, Sheila Dillon asks these fundamental questions.
In this programme, Margaret Collins reports on the ‘Fife Diet’ - not a weight loss regime, but rather a low carbon diet in which hundreds of people in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland have been living only on locally-produced food. How did they fare and should the rest of us be following their example?
Mike and Karen Small have spent a year on the ‘diet’ and have found it has completely changed their life with some unexpected savings. The programme also hears from Beef farmer, Tom Inglis, and from cheesemaker, Jane Stewart.
Next week, Sheila Dillon talks to the thinkers, the scientists and the farmers who are working out national policies for this new age.
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Presenting The Food Programme has been Sheila's perfect job.