Currently three quarters of funding goes to the biggest quarter of farms “Grossly unfair” farm subsidies should be replaced with a new system which allows all farmers the safety net of a basic income and enhances the natural environment, a University of Exeter expert has told the government.
Professor Ian Bateman, director of the University of Exeter’s Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), told the Conservative Party conference that the current agricultural policy needs to be scrapped. He said that it has overseen long-term decline in the natural environment, poor value for money to tax payers and a bad […]
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