Independent: The threat posed to agriculture by environmental hazards such as climate change and water scarcity is now so great that it could wipe as much as 5 trillion off the value of the worlds farm land, equipment and stock in any one year, a heavyweight study is warning.
Agriculture in the UK and worldwide is under huge financial and physical stress. A surge of investment on the back of a boom in the global food commodities market meets an increasingly precarious physical environment for farming creating...