The transition to an ecologically sustainable food system will call for the development and testing of production systems uniquely matched to the landscape, climate and soil of each locality.

Agricultural production is likely to become more labour intensive, creating new opportunities for the unemployed, and it will require people with a deep understanding of Natural Law and broad awareness, able to comprehend the many factors involved in ecologically sound farming. To facilitate these developments the Natural Law Party will:

• Introduce training programmes to align producers, advisors, researchers and students in the field of food and agriculture with the Unified Field of Natural Law;
• Redirect government-funded researchers and advisors to use their knowledge of isolated laws of nature in the development of ecologically self-sustaining production, processing and distribution systems for each region;
• Revise the curriculum of university, college and school rural science and agriculture courses to encompass the principles of ecologically sustainable production and Maharishi's Vedic Science.

The rural community

In recent years UK farmers have lost their traditional esteem as the "yeomanry" or nourishing parents of the nation. Overburdened with bureaucracy and a succession of crises such as BSE, they are an isolated, ageing population showing increasing symptoms of stress and ill-health. The high price of land, distorted by the effects of the CAP, makes it difficult for young people to enter farming. Mechanisation and the trend to non-local food marketing and processing has decreased employment opportunities and led to rural depopulation.

The Natural Law Party will reverse this decline in the health and fortune of the rural population, both on the level of the individual and the community, by introducing training in Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying. Research has amply demonstrated the health and societal benefits of this training (see Group for a Government and Health sections).