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Friday, 27 October 2017

UK: Britain's soil to become infertile within 40 years; Plans to grow more food



From The Telegraph,  Britain's soil to become infertile within 40 years due to intensive farming, warns Gove


I thought that Britain was planning to grow far more of its own food after Brexit...


Chris Grayling: farmers can grow more food if there is no Brexit deal, The Guardian


From the Andrew Marr Show, The Independent


Grayling's claims that UK can grow more food dismissed as 'tripe' - Farmers’ leaders are incredulous about comments that UK can meet demand if Britain leaves EU with no deal, The Guardian


Related:

The Unfrozen Moment - Delivering A Green Brexit


"The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself", Franklin D. Roosevelt





Jim at 08:45:00
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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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