Analysis of the day's national and international stories
Special reports
This is a selection of some of our reports that we think deserve a second outing.
Why is our food costing so much more?
In this special edition of World Tonight, first broadcast on Christmas Eve, Robin Lustig joins a panel of guests to talk about food: what we eat, where it comes from, and why it's costing so much more these days. Mark Price, Chief Executive of Waitrose, Gundala Azeez of the Soil Association and Sean Rickard, former NFU Chief Economist discuss how the UK's food supply chains will change over the next twenty years as global warming, increasing demand from developing countries and competition for land from biofuels force us to find new ways of filling supermarket shelves. Sean Rickard predicts a future in which genetic modification provides the only means of producing sufficient food and Mark Price admits that GM produce could be on Waitrose shelves within the forseeable future. Gundala Azeez argues that organic farming, not GM is the only way of increasing crop yields. Either way, last year 2007 looks to be the year the era of cheap food came to an end.
In this special edition of World Tonight, first broadcast on Christmas Eve, Robin Lustig joins a panel of guests to talk about food: what we eat, where it comes from, and why it's costing so much more these days. Mark Price, Chief Executive of Waitrose, Gundala Azeez of the Soil Association and Sean Rickard, former NFU Chief Economist discuss how the UK's food supply chains will change over the next twenty years as global warming, increasing demand from developing countries and competition for land from biofuels force us to find new ways of filling supermarket shelves. Sean Rickard predicts a future in which genetic modification provides the only means of producing sufficient food and Mark Price admits that GM produce could be on Waitrose shelves within the forseeable future. Gundala Azeez argues that organic farming, not GM is the only way of increasing crop yields. Either way, last year 2007 looks to be the year the era of cheap food came to an end.
