Prince Charles' Information Being The Survival Of Small Fields About Composition On Radio 4's Today.

Placing small family farms on the walls would "break the backbone of British rural society," Prince Charles said. He said the focus on producing abundant and cheap food threatens the survival of the nation's smaller farms. If they left, it would "tear the heart of England," he warned.

The government said it wanted to support all farmers and "the decisions they make on their farms." Before the publication of the National Food Strategy, the first significant review of the UK's food system in more than 70 years. The government commissioned the strategy and led by Henry Dimbleby, founder of the Leon restaurant chain.

Thursday's report examines the relationship between food production and environmental degradation, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and sustainable use of resources. It will contain recommendations for the government committed to responding in a white paper within six months.

The first part of the strategy was published last July and highlights the link between obesity, poverty, and the high number of Covid-19 victims in the UK. The Prince of Wales was concerned about food and the environment for much of his adult life. His latest intervention took the form of an essay on Radio 4's Today.

In it, he condemns super-efficient intensive agriculture, which produces most of our food, as a dead end. He explained how he had watched with growing concern over the years how much of the country's "precious landscape" was slowly declining in the name of "efficiency ."We don't consider what he calls the "hidden costs" of modern industrial agriculture, the prince warned.

He mentioned the damage to land as well as water flows and emissions that contribute to global warming. "We have to get nature back to basics," he insisted, or we risk undermining the trustworthy source of all our prosperity - nature.