Climate crisis: the countryside could be our greatest ally - if we can reform farming

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Mobilising agriculture to help the UK reach net zero would be an incredibly valuable use of the land, argues University of St Andrews Prfessor Ian Boyd

Around 20 per cent of the UK's farms account for 80 per cent of the country's total food production, and they do this on about half of all the farmed land there is. At least 80 per cent of farms in the...

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