{"id":411681,"date":"2025-11-05T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411681"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:41:17","slug":"411681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411681","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Ed Miliband\u2019s net zero blitz drive risks \u2018food security crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"475\" data-attachment-id=\"411685\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=411685\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQM-kjZkD107YvcGxx1kJqH2ea_Fj0918trgKLriXIElA_9GY4wKoWVH-b7-TdaqpH0i6t-8G_2xHqmOEaDrCmLYwfwazLzr7xChnP-bCrry1bJ8p6PIjJiENFjOrF-b-1.jpeg?fit=1334%2C877&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1334,877\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Britain risks being crippled by a major food security crisis because of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2024\/11\/05\/why-net-zero-revolution-could-drive-countryside-to-reform\/\">Ed Miliband\u2019s net zero blitz<\/a>, MPs have warned. <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/11\/03\/milibands-net-zero-drive-risks-food-security-crisis\/?WT.mc_id=e_DM725759&amp;WT.tsrc=email&amp;etype=Edi_Cit_New_v2&amp;utmsource=email&amp;utm_medium=Edi_Cit_New_v220251104&amp;utm_campaign=DM725759\">The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/10\/14\/ed-miliband-approves-britains-biggest-solar-farm\/\">construction of vast solar farms<\/a>&nbsp;to help meet the Government\u2019s green energy targets could lead to a quarter of the UK\u2019s farmland being taken out of production, a study from a cross-party committee said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This risks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/08\/13\/britains-food-security-risk-dairy-farmers-plan-to-quit\/\">Britain\u2019s food production<\/a>&nbsp;falling by one-third over the next few decades unless urgent action is taken, said the report from the science and technology in agriculture committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Freeman, who chairs the committee, said: \u201cWe need to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/10\/10\/farmers-suffer-second-worst-harvest-on-record\/\">support farmers to grow more of our food<\/a>. We\u2019re heading for a situation where we could easily see a very serious food security crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past 25 years, the UK has lost over 1.8 million acres of farmland \u2013 a 4.4pc decline \u2013 contributing to a 12pc fall in food production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fears are now growing that the trend could accelerate as the Government ramps up its solar blitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renewable energy companies are currently paying farmers over \u00a31,000 an acre to allow the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/11\/03\/solar-farm-set-to-be-built-near-watership-down-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">construction of solar panels<\/a>\u00a0on their land \u2013 around ten times as much as a landowner would receive in rent for allowing cattle to be grazed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Miliband is currently pushing through an 8,000-acre \u201cmega solar farm\u201d in central Norfolk, which is part of Mr Freeman\u2019s constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo call it a farm is an insult to a proud farming county. 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