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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

xiii] Yields are dropping, with large proportions of the UK’s soils moderately or severely degraded. xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. xviii] For example, Clifton Ings and Rawcliffe Meadows are a crucial part of the City of York’s flood defences.

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

But the crop-free plantings have had another effect, Farquhar explained. Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They have also increased the number of mammals on the farm.

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