Conservative Rural Affairs Group

President The Lord Plumb DL, FRAgS.

Rural Affairs, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Food

Global Food Security A Presentation given by Professor Tim Benton at our January meeting

Click here to read the Land Business magazine report on the discussions on 'Food Security and Sustainability in the UK' held at the Conservative Party Conferance in Oct 2010.

Views sought on CAP reform - click here.

Farmers’ views on RPA appeals panels needed - click here.

The Conservative Rural Affairs Group very much welcomes the initiative shown by the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs in increasing investment and support of the institute of Animal Health at Pirbright.

This recognises the importance of animal health research, and the development of vaccines that CRAG has been pressing on Ministers for some time. This initiative is particularly important in connection with the extremely urgent need to tackle the BTB epidemic that continues to increase