Is the UK self sufficient for food ?

The UK is not self-sufficient in food production; it imports 48% of the total food consumed and the proportion is rising. Therefore, as a food-trading nation, the UK relies on both imports and a thriving agricultural sector to feed itself and drive economic growth.

https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/challenge/uk-threat/

Not at all and recently British farmers have been encouraged through schemes to reduce production to aid climate change. I would say it's more important than ever to try and eat as much local and seasonal food like vegetables and fruit grown in the uk when in season and things like lamb at Easter etc and onwards. The more we rely on imports the more we will have to pay for food during a war or crisis.

Not at all and recently British farmers have been encouraged through schemes to reduce production to aid climate change. I would say it's more important than ever to try and eat as much local and seasonal food like vegetables and fruit grown in the uk when in season and things like lamb at Easter etc and onwards. The more we rely on imports the more we will have to pay for food during a war or crisis.

Half of our farmers' fields just flooded over the winter period too.

Seasonal workforce to pick fruit, etc, for some reason that I can't quite lay on a finger on, won't be here this year either.

Fields flooding in the winter wow! Has this ever happened before.

They built houses over our allotments

You shouldn't have let them, hopefully with some pressure  a national scheme for new allotments will get us back to growing our own veg. This virus could not have hit us at worse time, not much food in field if any, right at end of winter, potatoe crop still a while away. We need to plan better in future. In the old days basic foods were bought in bulk by many, the old hatch in pantry floor full of beets, potatoes ect. Wondering if the southern hemisphere will get it worse if they don't get on top of it quickly and it peaks in winter, maybe by then the cure will be found.

The lockdown bans people from going to their allotments.
A restriction almost certainly devised personally by Johnson to as a final dig at Corbyn

Jeremy is over 70 so was already in self-isolation. Well theoretically.

Johnson never has been any good at detail

Is the UK self sufficient for food ?

No but with renewable energy there is now no reason why at some point in the future we can't

We are self sufficient for toilet roll but that didn't stop everything hoarding it.

The lockdown bans people from going to their allotments.

been to my new allotment today a lot of work needed to get up and running

Supermarkets and grocer shops provide 60% of our food hence the stripped shelves when you take the other 40% away via the lockdown

But what I want to know is how's the food getting into the country and is it being distributed in foreign lorries...

Being sent by video link directly to the stores.

The lockdown bans people from going to their allotments.

Got any evidence to back that up please?

https://www.nsalg.org.uk/news/covid19-information/

UPDATED 26/03/20
Following the instructions around movement and gatherings from the Prime Minister on 23 March 2020, we are consulting with central government but as we understand the situation at the moment it is still permitted to visit your plot, to take daily exercise on their own or with members of your household. It is vitally important that you follow all the advice about social distancing and hygiene in the points below and not gather together on site.

Michael Gove confirmed today March 24th 2020 on BBC TV that Plot Holders should maintain their plots during the UK Coronavirus Lockdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa0ezyIg8V8

Mar 28, 2020 -- 5:22PM, Darlo Bantam wrote:

We are self sufficient for toilet roll but that didn't stop everything hoarding it.

Maybe numbers have changed since then, but at some point last year 85% of the needed raw material for toilet paper and kitchen rolls was imported, making the UK Europe's biggest importer of such material.

According to this we're about to fly in 90,000 workers to pick our food. Are we utterly insane?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/28/fruit-and-veg-will-run-out-unless-britain-charters-planes-to-fly-in-farm-workers-from-eastern-europe

The sending countries would be utterly insane to take the workers back (without ensuing quarantine) after they will have been contaminated in the UK.

The Guardian?

Plenty unemployed here who should be getting off their erses and earning a living.  Get them pickin'!  Newly released prisoners too.

More to the point, we just created a noble volunteer army to drive patients to hospital, deliver prescriptions, etc, etc. We could do the same if food really is going to be scarce.

Or how about trying to employ some of the tens of thousands of people who have been made jobless overnight and pay people a reasonable wage to do this.