Britain could face food shortages within 25 years as a result of growing demand for biofuels and a rising world population, a leading adviser to industry and the Government said yesterday.
Competition for land between fuel and food crops, expanding populations in developing countries, and climate change were all going to put pressure on world food supplies, said Prof Bill McKelvey, chief executive of the Scottish Agriculture College in Edinburgh.
He said: "We are becoming less self-sufficient in food. I don't believe that if we look 50 years ahead we will be in a food-secure situation. It's possible in the next 25 to 50 years that there will be food shortages in the UK."
Ah, the Law of Unintended Consequences...
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