Report: £8bn of UK food imports threatened by worsening floods, droughts and heatwaves

Stuart Stone
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Bananas, rice, tea, coffee and sugar among £8bn of UK food imports from countries struggling to cope with increasingly extreme weather, ECIU analysis finds

Around £8bn-worth of food including bananas, rice and tea is imported to the UK from countries that are ill-prepared for increasingly extreme weather events they face from climate change, according to...

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