Government policy accused of 'failing nature recovery' not 'farming for food'

Professor Julia Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was 'disingenuous, lazy and damaging'

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Government policy accused of 'failing nature recovery' not 'farming for food'

Government is 'failing' farmers' ability to recover nature. That was the message from this year's Oxford Farming Conference debate, which debated the motion: "This house believes farming for food is holding...

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