What would improving UK food security mean for our hills?

Find out what the future might look like if Britain's hills were used to contribute towards self-sufficiency in food. What would the implications be if we were to put more sheep and cattle in the hills, and perhaps cultivate some areas for arable crops or biofuels? Based on interviews and focus groups with upland stakeholders, combined with outputs from process-based computational modelling, this film explores what this future might mean for us all. This film was made by the Rural Economy and Land Use programme's Sustainable Uplands project. For more information, visit: www.see.leeds.ac.uk/sustainableuplands

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Judging from this video, intensifying farming in the uplands would only be self-defeating and damaging.

Maybe we need to be looking at quite different agricultural models instead; much more extensive, realistic and in tune with how ecosystems actually operate. And instead of just stupidly pandering to human population increase we need to exercise more self control - there is such a thing as contraception you know.