UK ministers 'should offer backing to Sustainable Livestock Bill'
Date posted: 14 Sep 2010
Members of the coalition government have been encouraged to get behind the Sustainable Livestock Bill.
Published by Louise Border.
It is important that the country's ministers throw their weight behind the Sustainable Livestock Bill, an expert has suggested.
According to Kirtana Chandrasekaran, a food campaigner at the environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE), this is one of many ways in which the UK government could try to prevent the practice of land grabbing overseas.
The campaigner remarked: "Replacing imported feed with home-grown alternatives will boost British farming, cut carbon emissions, [and] protect the world's poorest people from land grabs."
Biofuel is another topic that Ms Chandrasekaran believes members of the coalition government should focus on.
The problem of overseas land grabbing could also be addressed if ministers take action to cut the nation's biofuel targets, she went on to suggest.
Her remarks follow the publication of World Bank research which touches upon the subject of land grabbing in parts of Africa.
Meanwhile, the importance of green transport has also been emphasised by FoE, following the ten-year anniversary of the UK's fuel blockades.
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