The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to localise supply chains and ensure our food security. Controlled environment agriculture is an essential tool in achieving this.
If the UK is to thrive in a competitive global marketplace for food, it needs to dramatically improve its production output and lead the world in agri-tech. Technologies like indoor farming — currently a relatively fledgeling industry, but one that has huge potential — open up the possibility of food self-sufficiency without ever more destructive land use.
But in order for indoor farming to make the leap from exciting technology to common method of food production, it needs the government to get on board and support progress. There is one policy change that could turbocharge this exciting new sector: legalise cannabis.
Supporting agri-tech innovators by facilitating the growth of the legal medical cannabis industry could help transform the UK economy post-Covid into one of abundant job opportunities, food security, pharmaceutical leadership, conservation, green energy and reduced carbon emissions.
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