Dorothea Hackman

Community food-growing initiatives such as Camden’s Right to Grow are welcomed, but the UK must take broader and more urgent action on climate change and food security. The article calls for less reliance on livestock farming, expanded crop production, tougher controls on intensive agriculture, public awareness campaigns and recognition of the food system as a national-security issue. It criticizes profitable fossil-fuel companies, warns about the energy and water demands of AI data centres, and highlights opposition to LNG expansion in the environmentally significant Coral Triangle.