'Green your eats': How to make the transition to low-carbon farming a reality

Stuart Stone
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New report argues decarbonising farming would have a minimal impact on food prices while delivering enhanced resilience, but careful policy interventions are required to manage what is a 'profound' shift for farmers

Decarbonising farming and food systems may represent one of the biggest challenges faced by the net zero transition, but according to a major new report a switch to genuinely low carbon farming is not...

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