El Niño prompts UK to bolster household food stocks and resilience
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Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle warned the strongest El Niño in a generation could bring drier summers, wetter winters and more extreme storms, prompting advice for households to hold emergency food reserves; the NAO cautioned Britain’s food supply chain faces risks from cyber-attacks, disease and climate change, while Defra said resilience work is underway and a national emergency-preparedness strategy is due to be published by end-2026.
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