Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...rural areas....
...The decision to add lending to Grosvenor’s sprawling interests — which include rural estates, agriculture and overseas property — is part of a strategy to diversify beyond the vast London estate and boost...
...However Eustice, who spent nearly a decade as a minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, including two years as secretary of state, said a fundamentally different approach was...
...The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it had implemented the cap following feedback from the farming community....
...Business and trade secretary Kemi Badenoch has warned Steve Barclay, her counterpart at the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, that his plans will drive up food costs and risk upsetting Britain...
...The CAP and rural decline According to this European Commission background paper, there are about 10mn farms in the EU, 17mn people work regularly in agriculture, and the farming and food sectors combined...
...“We fully recognise the importance of Scottish salmon to the UK economy and are committed to supporting the sector,” the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said....
...head of the Savills country department....
...In its early survey of this year’s harvest, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, an advisory body to farmers, found excessive rain had caused big declines in planting of crops such as winter...
...In 2022, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released a five-year agricultural plan that included fostering lab-grown meat....
...The BBC’s 2018 report on Sea Life revealed that an inspector appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had advised the aquarium to supply “the minimum information required”....
...into its Equipment Development Department....
...it has tapped into huge funding programmes from the Department of Energy....
...“Agro is already being impacted by climate change,” says Paula Packer, head of environment at Embrapa, an agricultural research and development agency widely credited with laying the foundations for Brazil...
...Desri’s executive director of development Liz Peyton said that in cases where land had been used for agriculture prior to the construction of a solar site, “it can be a hard transition for local communities...
...The company received $4mn in incentives from an Ohio economic development agency and a 15-year tax abatement on property improvements. “They’ve got pitchforks and T-shirts and posters....
...Andrew Mitchell, the UK’s development minister, stopped short of using the word “famine”....
...Family-owned and operated businesses account for 95 per cent of all US farms, according to the most recent data from the US Department of Agriculture....
...Long-running structural issues in Nigeria have kept food costs high for much of the past decade. Productivity is low, with agriculture dominated by subsistence farmers....
...The threat posed by China and Russian espionage was Europe-wide, he noted, and could not be tackled by any agency acting in isolation: “We are following the developments in the UK and the recent exposure...
...The scale of the shortfall in new homes and spending had created “tension” between the agency and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), it added....
...In a statement, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said there was “a well-established process in place to agree the sugar beet price . . . with government only acting as final arbitrator...
...But slowly, Ethiopia developed a hybrid system and created the Agricultural Transformation Agency, which has focused on developing new varieties of wheat and teff....
...The agriculture ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia said the new border rules were “leading to challenges and more work for the relevant veterinary authorities”....
...Aubrey Hruby, a seasoned investor in Africa, advocates the intense use of technology to release agriculture from its subsistence stranglehold....
International Edition