"Grossly unfair" farm subsidies should be replaced with a new system which allows all farmers the safety net of a basic income, a land and environment expert has told the government. Professor Ian Bateman, Director of the University of Exeter’s Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) has set out a new vision for a "harmonisation" of environmental and agricultural policy following Brexit.In a speech to the the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Professor Bateman called for the scrapping of current agricultural policy.He said the CAP has overseen long-term decline in the natural environment, poor value for money to […]
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