'Overpromising': Report warns 'finite land' could complicate food, climate, and nature demands

Michael Holder
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Royal Society argues more science-led data needed to inform land-use decision-making so as to benefit climate, nature, farming, and communities

Government ambitions to boost food production while simultaneously reserving more areas for nature protection and fighting climate change risk "overpromising" finite UK land, unless efforts are made to...

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