Could climate change lead to food-related civil unrest in UK within 50 years?

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Study shows UK must prepare for, and respond to, the risks associated with future food shortages, write the University of York's Sarah Bridle and Anglia Ruskin University's Aled Jones

The emptying of supermarket shelves during the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK's food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the...

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