Subsidised community restaurants could help tackle the UK’s broken food system – here’s how

By Benjamin Selwyn, Professor of International Relations and International Development, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex

The UK’s food system is fundamentally broken. As a researcher of the global agricultural system, I believe drastic, bold change is needed – and that community restaurants are an important model to consider.

Subsidised community restaurants could serve seasonal dishes made with locally grown plant-based food, produced on farms that encourage wildlife through widespread tree cultivation, the use of cover-crops, and improvements to soil health. A mass roll-out of such restaurants could help tackle the UK’s food poverty and malnutrition, while also increasing agriculture’s resilience to…

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