SIR – The Green Party agrees with letter writer N Taylor (Worcester News, August 16) on the need to address higher food prices.
Part of Euro MP candidate for the Green Party Will Duckworth's point ‘It’s a scandal that we need food banks’ (Worcester News, July 30) was that an era of more expensive food is exactly the wrong time to push hundreds of thousands into poverty with savage cuts to benefits.
Greens want less supermarket control of the food chain and more community-owned farms (such as Fordhall Farm in Shropshire or Five Acre Farm, near Coventry).
We need more urban space given up to growing food.
Urbivore in Stoke-on-Trent is a very interesting project that we could bring to Worcester.
It is offering jobless young people accredited apprenticeships through selling locally grown affordable fruit and veg.
And internationally, Greens want to end speculation by hedge funds and other financial institutions on food.
What we need to do is fight social inequality and food poverty at the same time.
LOUIS STEPHEN
Worcester Green Party
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