More than half of UK's food sourced from abroad, study finds

Researchers warn that the damage done by the amount of food and feed coming from abroad has an environmental impact on poorer countries

More than half of the UK's food and feed now comes from overseas, which is burdening poorer countries with the related environmental impact, a new study says.

More than two-thirds of the land needed to produce the UK's food and feed is based abroad, researchers said, meaning 64% of the related greenhouse gases are emitted on foreign soil.