Cameron warns of global food crunch

David Cameron is to warn of Britain's vulnerability to a "global food crunch" as he sets out a package of measures to support home-grown farming.

With increasing competition for farm produce from the growing economies of China and India, the growing market for biofuels to provide "green" energy and the threat of global warming, the Tory leader will say that the era of abundant food supplies may be drawing to an end.

He will tell the centenary conference of the National Farmers Union in London that some analysts believe Britain must now treat food security as seriously as energy security and even national security.

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