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Farming Today: 09/07/2022 Food security; Ukraine harvest; Welsh subsidies; Rural Tourism

09/07/2022 Food security; Ukraine harvest; Welsh subsidies; Rural Tourism

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 09/07/2022 Food security; Ukraine harvest; Welsh subsidies; Rural Tourism

UN report on global food security; harvest in Ukraine; Welsh subsidies; rural tourism.

UN report on food security says global hunger numbers rose last year to 828 million. Farmers trying to bring in the harvest in Ukraine. Welsh farm subsidies. Rural tourism.

Nearly 670 million people worldwide will be undernourished in 2030 according to The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, which published its annual assessment of global food security this week. The Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine are making things worse.

We catch up with a Dutch man who farms in Ukraine. He's just begun this year’s harvest but says they're running out of storage space for the grain and thinks yields will be affected by lack of fertiliser and seed. He warns that in some parts of the region, there may not be a harvest at all next year if the conflict continues.

Leaving the European Union means the subsidy system for farmers is now a devolved decision. The Welsh Government has just announced more details of their new scheme.  Farmers in Wales will have to cover at least 10% of their land with trees in order to qualify for public funding in future.  Ministers insist they don't want to see widespread land use change, away from farming.

All week on Farming Today we’ve been talking about rural tourism which brings in £4.5 billion to the UK economy every year, according to Visit England. We look at a herd of heritage animals in Northumberland. The Chillingham Wild Cattle Association is opening a new visitor centre to tell the story of the beasts which have never been farmed and used to be hunted. We look at the problems and solutions of too many tourists on Skye and visit a Devon farmer who opened a campsite under lockdown and says it's made a big difference to the farm business.

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