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Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient – according to new report by 150 experts

Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient – according to new report by 150 experts

Modelling shows that we will need to change not just how we farm, but what farming produces and what we eat.

15.10.2025 6

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Neil Ward

The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers

Numbers of cows and sheep will have to fall by a third, with their farms replaced by huge areas of new woodland.

26.02.2025 10

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Neil Ward

British farmers will face greater challenges than Labour’s inheritance tax reforms

Just months after Labour won the UK general election and ended a prolonged period of Conservative rule, rural protesters are once again taking to...

19.11.2024 3

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Methane emissions from dairy farms higher than previously thought – new study

To reach net zero by 2050, the UK must reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and methane emissions from farm livestock pose a thorny...

03.10.2024 30

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Neil Ward