The UK government have received a formal recommendation by The Royal Society, a national science debate organization, suggesting that more resources are needed to develop pioneering sustainable farming techniques. Further to this they state that the UK needs to consider how to support farmers and rural populations through their farming methods, when most advances in agriculture seem to be promoting mechanical and automated farming systems that are putting people out of work. From new roaming seeding machines to factory glassware production for product bottling, they are not taking the local communities into consideration.

One of the government’s top agricultural scientists, Professor John Beddington, has responded to the Royal Society’s claims and even elaborated on them. He has stated that “a number of solutions” are required to not only solve some of the problems that UK farming currently has, but also to be able to share knowledge and resources with those countries than follow the UK’s lead when it comes to agriculture.He stated that people are eating larger amounts of dairy and meat products currently, and this is increasing the demand for agricultural commodities needed to feed livestock. It was even claimed by Beddintion that by the year 2030, we could see a fifty percent rise in food demand.

As an addition to the £50m that is currently spent on scientific research for food farming every year in the UK, the Royal Society suggested another £2bn be invested to firstly combat domestic issues, but more importantly start the process of solving the problems faced in third world and developing countries. These are the places that have the most limited resources and knowledge to implement sustainably farming methods, and often do not understand the long term damage that they are doing to their farming land and agriculture in general

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