The objectives of Defra's most recent corporate-style five-year plan are to protect the environment, boost food and farming, and safeguard rural livelihoods
Defra's latest five-year plan aims to 'unleash the economic potential of food and farming, nature and the countryside'.
Ambitions include:
- Working with the food, farming and fisheries industries to develop a 25-year plan to grow and sell more British food at home and abroad;
- Maintaining the 'Great British Food Unit' to promote British food, established in January 2016;
- Establishing a group of food and drink industry partners to champion the 2016 Year of Great British Food;
- Helping to treble the number of food and farming apprenticeships, and encourage more skilled graduates to enter the industry;
- Reducing the number of farm inspections and coordinating these through a Single Farm Inspection Taskforce, to be established by June 2016.
Read the plan in full here and find more about Sustain's work on farming here.
Published Friday 26 February 2016
Sustain: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
