The UK is indeed waking up - particularly to its predicament with regard to lack of food security.
In just 2 years the agriculture ministry (DEFRA) has gone from declaring that, as a developed nation,
food production is not a strategic concern, as we can buy whatever we need on world markets -
over to declaring an evident lack of faith in world food security, a policy reversal regarding farming's relevance,
and even publicly encouraging UK householders to produce as much of their own food as possible.

As a farmer myself (in the Cambrian Mountains on 160 acres of high sheltered valley [including coppices & marshland]
with mountain common rights for 700 ewes) the end of the suppression of traditional farming would be very welcome.
I suspect that what the SCC is proposing is going to be very relevant for the new UK livestock farming policies,
with our exceptional forest growth rates also giving a good justification for the parallel production & use of Biochar.

It's a real pleasure to find this site.

Regards,

Lewis