Ecological farming can feed UK population, a report found this week Ecological farming can feed UK population – report Debunking the myth that sustainable farming can’t feed the UK was a report by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, released this week. Based on modelling by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), it suggested that the UK could grow enough healthy food to feed the predicted 2050 population, while doubling fallow land for nature and reducing farming emissions by 38 per cent