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Farming Today: 22/03/21 Covid's impact on food and farming; Rural buses; Pop-up campsites.

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22/03/21 Covid's impact on food and farming; Rural buses; Pop-up campsites.

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 22/03/21 Covid's impact on food and farming; Rural buses; Pop-up campsites.

The impact of Covid on food and farming; Report into rural buses; Pop-up campsites.

Coronavirus and its impact on food and farming.
CPRE says future funding for rural buses won't be enough.
Are pop-up campsites the answer to the problems caused by wild camping?

Coronavirus has hit every aspect of our lives but what's it meant for food and farming in particular? We ask the man who's leading the National Food Strategy, Henry Dimbleby how he thinks the pandemic will shape the future of the food chain.

The countryside charity the CPRE has described the government's national bus strategy as 'woefully unambitious and woefully inadequate'. It says with the right level of funding, England could have a rural bus service to match Swiss standards, where every village of two to three hundred people is guaranteed hourly buses  from six in the morning to midnight, seven days a week.

Could pop-up campsites be an answer to excessive wild camping?  It was a problem last summer, when scores of campers pitched up at beauty spots that had no facilities. Planning permits for pop-up campsites are going to be extended. Usually landowners can open them 28 days a year. That was extended last year to 56 days, because of the pandemic, and that'll be the case again this year.

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Producer = Rebecca Rooney

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