Your editorial is right to warn that Britain’s food system leaves us dangerously exposed (The Guardian view on food security: we have just-in-time, we need just-in-case, 15 October). But scarcity is only part of the problem. Across the country, good food exists; what is missing is the infrastructure to store it, aggregate it and get it to the people who need it.
That failure runs through the whole food chain. Farmers are being pushed to the brink while millions of tonnes of edible produce go to waste. Independent retailers and wholesalers face rising costs, while schools, hospitals and community organisations want to provide healthier food but are constrained by tight budgets.
