The BBC, known for populist hyperbole. What is clear from this is there is absolutely no appetite from the regulators for viewing things from a wider perspective and the unintended consequences are I think quite obviously far more damaging to the environment (ironically) and the economy.
Price of wheat in Kenya today £380 price of a 600g loaf of bread 50p.
10p/loaf must be sufficient to cover the baking, transport and retails costs in Kenya... here there is another 70p/loaf worth of costs/profits somewhere in the system 
Exactly! That's my point..re food affordability
Plenty of osr comes here from countries who are using it
It’s priced to what people can afford the staples here are bread and maize flour. There’s a lot of vomit inducing comments on this forum about making people go hungry so that they know where their food comes from or in order to force governments to aid farming but the truth of it is people go hungry when they’ve got no money. It’s unlikely that the people in the UK are going to starve they’ve got money and if they don’t the Government do it’s people in the third world with low incomes who will go hungry and look to migrate to the west legally or illegally. If you think you’re having it tough at the moment trust me you aren’t.
Bread may be priced to what people can afford in Africa. In the UK it is priced to what allows people to also afford a new iphone every 6 months, have 2 cars less than 2 years old, 2 overseas holidays and eating out 4 times a week.... In Britain as farmers we are exposed to a constant barrage of critisim around food production by relatively affluent readers of the Guardian newspaper. These are the ones the calls some of us would like to go hungry for a while. You are correct of course though, in any food shortage it is always the poorest that go hungry first.
The loss of neonicontinoids means that I cannot use rape as a break crop in the UK which makes growing cereals harder. Considering the tiny amount used per kilo and the size of an oilseed rape plant I am at a loss to work out the connection between this and a declining bee population and not using the treatment on beet is totally mental. The decline in bee numbers i think comes from a loss of habitat caused by a lack of mixed cropping both on arable and livestock farms basically too much monoculture driven by government support policies. The UK agriculture policy is stupid and has been for many years but this is mainly due to the declining numbers directly involved in agriculture. In Kenya people spend over 50% of their incomes on food which means they have little to spend on anything else which means very little economic activity. The two cars and two holidays drive the economy and pays wages when people can’t buy their second car or go on holiday it means that the people associated with those will lose their jobs with all the knock on affects of that. A bit more money for farming would be nice but not at the risk of the destruction of the status quo we have now. I see people who are properly hungry everyday and I've seen what happens when a society breaks down (Kenya 2008) it's not good.
I don't disagree with you. Anecdotally I think declining bee population may have more a lot to do with changing weather patterns. Seems now we get a hot week in March this wakes bees too early, they emerge to find there is fk all nectar around and they quickly burn up their reserves and die. On the recent Greenpeace FB threads about neonics there were quite a few members of the pubic reporting they had been finding lots of dead or dying bees and associating it with the government decision to "allow bee killing chemical"... I did have to point out it would be rather difficult for all those bees to have left their woodlands and public parks, found sealed bags of treated sugar beet seed, somehow consumed the seed dressing and then flown back to their woodland and parks...
