The Guardian view on food and farming: climate chaos hits crops hard – and that should worry everyone | Editorial

BRitriar farmers are, of course, not the only people suffering from the effects of the Heatwaves of this summer. In the very Europe and the Middle East record-breaking temperatures are threatened lives or existence. France has been experienced its greatest wildfire since 1949 500,000 acres of land are burned.

But farmers are particularly vulnerable for extremely weather, which has an immediate influence on crop brings. So reporting a second consecutive year in which food creepers in parts of the UK to see dramatic fales in production should concern the British public. Access to food is often taken as obvious in the richest nations of the world. Lake increased food insecurity is under the dangerous effects of the climate shot, as well as wasted by the rates of Trump, and geopolitic settings including the War in Ukraine.

Last year, the problem for British farmers are too many summer rain, leading to water logged fields and lost crops. This year the challenge has been the reverse: longer, intensively hot where, leading to great parts of England that officially stated dryness. Dramatic local and regional variations complicate the image. While some farmers follow smaller vegetables warning in supermarkets disappointing early harvestersOthers have sailed pretty well. It is too soon to draw firm conclusions or make deciding comparisons with previous years. However what is outside doubt, is however, is the immense challenge of adjustment to a changed reality.

On a recent water top hosted by the National Farmers-Union, Steve Reed, the environmental secretary, suggested that the government can support a change to support rules, causing rules easier for farmers to build reservoirs on their country. Ministers must work with nature experts, such as farmers to develop this, and other proposals to conquer for a resilience responsible way. While tensions between the Conser's priorities and farmers, there is also also common ground, for example, for the need to stronger, ingregant planning. Last month a survey by the energy of the energy and climate including in which includes that More than 80% of UK farmers are concerned about the climate crisis.

Such anxiety, along with crops in crops and income, also also help explain the fierce response of Inheritance tax inheritance, Rachel, Rachel, Rachels, Restribution for Agricultural country. Last week the independent center for the analysis of proposed tax amendments to the new rules that the treasury should consider careful. The chancellor is right to target rich, taxing taxing. But Minsel Antagonism for rural instrumentes does not serve a goal and plays only in the hand of the populist.

While farmers are the first to register falling returns, and smaller heads of broccoliAgricultural country's productivity and resilience is affecting everyone who is not isolated by higher food prices. Last month a Think, the autonomy institute, claimed that the UK is particularly exposed to “Wetter station“Due to his heavy dependence. Extremely weather could drive through 2050 by 2050 with 2050 with food prices. Should the government have involvinated, in promoting Healthy Food policy.

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