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Food will exist grown in greenhouses covering acres of state nether proposals to increase self-sufficiency to help guard against hereafter economic shocks.

"Backing farmers" is the focus of the government'due south long-awaited food strategy for England.

The strategy announced today has been described by critics every bit "half-baked".

Information technology follows a landmark review of the food system by restaurant owner, Henry Dimbleby, who said simply most half of his recommendations had been taken on.

Just the pledge to "back farmers" has been welcomed by the National Farmers' Marriage and the Soil Association.

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Speaking from a Cornish farm, Prime number Minister Boris Johnson said he was "supporting not bad British farming" and putting coin into modernisation and innovation.

The food strategy puts a focus on home-grown food, including strengthening supply chains and boosting food production.

£270 million will be invested in technology to increase productivity and profitability
The authorities will consult on an ambition for 50% of public sector food spend to get on food produced locally or certified to higher standard
A framework will be published next year on how to assistance farmers abound more than nutrient while also meeting legally-bounden targets to halt climate change and nature loss.

Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby said the policy certificate was not detailed enough to be chosen a strategy.

The regime's ain adviser on food told the BBC: "They've now implemented more than than 50% of what I recommended, merely it hasn't been done with one vision beyond the whole system."

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Wellness campaigners are disquisitional of the omission of recommendations for a tax on unhealthy foods.

But Mr Dimbleby said his salt and sugar revenue enhancement proposal would be responded to by the government at a afterward date, calculation that Health Secretarial assistant Sajid Javid should "be bold and brave in a difficult political context and act to intermission that junk food cycle".

He also expressed hope people can "get away from this narrative of personal responsibility and instruction, which is of import, but it isn't going to become united states out of the hole nosotros're in".

Sue Davies of consumer group, Which?, said the strategy lacked ambition and many of the recommendations had been "watered down, ignored or put off for farther consultation".

And conservation charity, The Wildlife Trusts, said the authorities had broken its promise to restore nature at calibration.

Conservation group, WWF, said making UK farming "practiced for climate and nature" was the but way to "prepare a cleaved food system to ensure healthy, affordable, sustainable food is available for anybody, now and for generations to come".

"Putting nature and climate at the heart of our nutrient system was a clear promise of this regime at COP26 - now it must raise its game and prove information technology's got the courage to deliver for people and planet," she said.