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Don't think twice about where the food in our kitchen comes from one trip to the supermarket
And we can buy anything we want do ether
That's fruit grow in south america
Tommarto is from spain or rice flown in from major
Do you know whether food you buy comes from nail i
You know pay acpermarket and buy stuff that locally produce
But actually
Sometimes i don't really look how about you
I actually have a calendar on my kitchen
War which tells me
Which fruits and vegetables are grown at what times of year
The reality is that the supply of fresh food to the uk is fragile
The uk imports around forty percent of its food
And this supply chain can easily be disrupted by wars
Shortages and increasingly by climate change
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In fact
Uu government's department for environment food and rural affairs recently reported on the importance of food security
The term for having a reliable enough supply of affordable healthy food to feed everyone in this episode will be investigating the issues healcing food production in the uk as usual will learn some useful new vocabulary and remember there's a quiz worsheet and transcript of this episode on our website bb c learning english dot com
But first of course paper i have a quiz question for you
I mention the britain imports forty percent of its food from other produces ers moly ly europe
But which european country does the uk import the most food food from it
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I've seen the netherlands on a lot of food packaging in the uk
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We'll find out if you're rofood lah in the program
According to the uk government's recent report
There are many issues affecting britain's food supply go political conflicts like those in ukraine and iran drought and water shortages
Loss of biodiversity caused by a climate change
The list goes on and on here
Climate reporter mark pointing discusses the report's conclusions with bbc radio force the food program
And it really draws on scientific research to come up with what it cals is a reasonable worst case scenario for how biodiversity loss could affect uk security
And its conclusions are really really
Ite starck concluline of the report says
Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threatens u ky's national security
The repss describes a worst case scenario
A britain runs out of food
A worst case scenario is the worst possible thing that could happen in a particular situation
Mark says
The report's conclusion are stuck an adjective which in this case means obvious or severe another problem with food security relates to climate change
Carbon emissions from food production make up around a third of all greenhouse gases from from the diesel used to tractors to fertilizers to cows and sheep producing methane emr pinchbk is the chief executive of the u ky's climate change committee
She spoke about this problem with bb c radio force the food program
The biggest chunk of emissions from agriculture comes from simply having life stuck ck on land
That's the bit of the puzzle
That we need to think about going forward
And in the way that we thought about it
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For every cowshewe take off the land
We put on something else and what that does overall is it makes farmers and man donwn as part of the solution to climate change not the problem
Livestock that's farm animals such as cattle
Sheep and pigs contribute most of the carbon emissions from agriculture moving towards a sustainable food supply involves reducing the amount of meat and dairy
We eat in favor of non animal protein such as beans and lantals
Encouraging farmers and consumers to move away from meat is a piece of the puzzle
According to emma
A piece of the puzzle means a part of the solution to a problem
In this case
The twin problems of food security and climate change
Ema says
Is important
To think again about how farmland is used for every cow or sheep taken off for land melelsuch such a fruit tree or vegetable crop is put in its place
That way farmers become part the solulution
The problem and idiom meaning that if you are not active
Trying to fix a problem
You are helping it continue lots of ideas to chew over and il
But now isn't it time you revealed the answer to your question
My question was
Which european country does the uk import the most food from
And you said be the netherlands
And you ababsolucorrect ct aper er it the netherlands
The uk imports seven point six billy pounds worth imports
Especially vegetables and dairy
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Let's recap the vocabulary
We've learned starting with food security the situation
Where a country has a reliable enough supply of food to feed its population
The worst case scenario is the worst possible thing that could happen in a particular situation
The adjective stock has several meanings including obvious and severe livestock
Our animals and birds that acatt on a farm
Such as cows
Sheep or chickens
The phrase a piece of the puzzle means a part of the solution to a problem
And finally the idiom be part of the solution not the problem means that if you are not actively trying to fix the problem
You are helping it continue once again are six minutes are up
But if this topic has made you hungry for more
Why not check out our food topic page on our website bbc learning english stock on by for now goodbye six minute english from bbc learning english
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