The Importance of Increased Crop Production to Feed the Nation

This chapter demonstrates how enemy blockading shown in Chapter 2 and a harsh winter, combined with government action caused food privationCrop productionincreasing in around 80% of the population from early 1917, in a war weary nation. The fate of other combatant nations’Combatant nations food supplies, with increasing social unrest, is also given to illustrate the worsening international food crisis. I analyse the traditional diets of the majority of the British population to reveal how their intake was dependent on income levels, with the poorest being underfed. Included are government actions to conserve supplies and encourage increasing levels of home-grown food. Steep food price inflation added to the British nation’s woes, leading to industrial unrest and the potential for police action to control food riotsFood riots which were seen in enemy nations.