Farmers must be at the heart of food system reform

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Understanding the perspectives and needs of food producers is key to delivering a fair food system transition, writes the Grantham Institute's Leo Mercer

Feeding a growing population has demanded ever greater efficiency improvements from land. Remarkably, this has been achieved at the global level and sustained since the 1970s. However, balancing the...

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