Farming Today

Food security - how we'll produce enough food to meet the needs of our growing population - is a high level of concern among world leaders. Now one of the UK centres carrying out major research in this area faces major cuts. The University of Warwick is to scale down research at Wellesbourne horticultural centre, Warwick HCI, and make a third of its staff redundant. Charlotte Smith asks what this will mean for the research and the industry.