The question of rural development: post-Brexit

Posted on 21 March 2018 by Professor Terry Marsden

As the slow and very uncertain Brexit process continues, and talk of ‘cliff-edges’ becomes all the more common, it is even more critical to develop a collective vision and set of policy principles for rural areas in the UK, and not least here in Wales. Talking to many key stakeholders, businesses and rural householders over
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Mind the Gap(s): Food Brexit, regulatory divergences and the need for a new UK agri-food framework

Posted on 27 November 2017 by Professor Terry Marsden

Discussing and debating with a wide range of food industry and representatives from key food organisations over recent months, since the publication of our report: ‘ Food Brexit: time to get real’[1]; there is a general and growing consensus that with the dire spectre of a hard Brexit looming (i.e moving outside both the customs
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Building a post-Brexit food and rural policy for Wales

Posted on 20 November 2017 by Professor Terry Marsden

Recently myself and colleagues Professor’s Tim Lang (City University) and Erik Milstone (Sussex University) published the first major independent review of the overall impacts of Brexit on the UK food system: A Food Brexit: time to get real: A Brexit Briefing. The report, drawing on over 200 sources, examines available industry and government data, policies and
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Brexit: A vortex for UK food and farming

Posted on 11 April 2017 by Professor Kevin Morgan

Food and farming has not been high on the Brexit agenda to date and is currently suffering from a Cinderella status in negotiations argue Professors Terry Marsden and Kevin Morgan. Here they maintain that an urgent debate is needed about its future given that it is a sector critical to future employment, public health, ecological
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