Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 10 June 2026.
Sarah Champion
Chair, International Development Committee, Chair, International Development Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of agroecology on (a) food security and (b) food prices.
Angela Eagle
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Defra’s assessment of evidence on agroecological practices, including organic and other environmentally friendly systems, indicates that these approaches can enhance biodiversity and soil and biomass carbon at farm level. However, there are further profitability and food security considerations when balancing the lower yields agroecological practises often deliver versus volatile input costs associated with conventional farming.
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