- Statement from OF&G CEO Roger Kerr
“It’s been a challenging time for the entire food and farming sector. Yet despite the impact of the cost-of-living-crisis, this year’s Soil Association organic market report evidences several areas of optimism.
With many external pressures reflected throughout the report, there remains a need to adapt our food systems to the many challenges we face including climate change, the continued degradation of soils and biodiversity loss.
Organic represents a route to delivering greater food system resilience through its whole system approach, where practices work simultaneously in synergy with nature and each other to address these current challenges.
Support for organic is growing around the world with significant increases in both organic land area and market demand. This is in clear recognition of the value organic can deliver for forward-thinking governments, by providing a clear pathway to creating a ‘fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system’. OF&G believe the UK must stop ‘treading water’ and asks Government and NGO’s to now lead in publicly supporting organic as part of their broader agenda through clear, positive and unambiguous messaging.”
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