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Farming Today: Fish stocks in Thames estuary, Farmers and climate change, Leather production, Badger image

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25/09/2014

Fish stocks in Thames estuary, Farmers and climate change, Leather production, Badger image

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Fish stocks in Thames estuary, Farmers and climate change, Leather production, Badger image

Could falling fish stocks in the Thames estuary mean the end of an era for fishermen?

Fishermen from the Thames estuary are meeting government agencies, to discuss the decline in fish stocks. And why farmers are involved in the UN Climate Summit in New York.

Fishermen from the Thames estuary are due to meet with government agencies this week, to discuss falling fish stocks, which they say may threaten their livelihoods.

Farmers are "at the forefront of climate change", according to the president of the World Farmers' Organisation Peter Kendall, formerly president of the NFU. He's in New York at the UN Climate Summit this week, helping to launch a new initiative, the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture.

Farming Today continues its look at the production of textiles by UK farmers for the fashion industry, with a discussion of leather. British farmers produce more than nine million square metres every year, most of which is exported. The price of hide has risen by more than 100 per cent over the past six years, partly driven by demand from China. Charlotte Smith asks what that will mean for UK farmers.

And with the controversial badger cull now in its third week, we take a look at the image of the animal. Why do badgers arouse such public affection, while other animals are culled with little or no outcry?

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