Study: Food industry's failure to tackle nature loss a threat to 'prosperity'

Stuart Stone
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Coalition of investors managing £6tr in assets calls on the food industry to ramp up efforts to tackle the global biodiversity and nature crisis

The Food Foundation and a coalition of investors managing £6tr in assets have today warned the UK's nature crisis risk saddling the economy with enormous costs - and as such the food industry can no longer...

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