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Farming Today: 06/12/23 Cost of food and climate change; Police off-road motorbikes.

06/12/23 Cost of food and climate change; Police off-road motorbikes.

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 06/12/23 Cost of food and climate change; Police off-road motorbikes.

How climate change is putting up the cost of food for consumers and producers.

The impact of climate change on global food systems, and the cost of what we eat.

All week we're taking the temperature of the COP 28 climate summit in Dubai. While there's been criticism of attendance by oil, coal and gas industries, for the first time food production and distribution have also been on the agenda.  Farmers around the world have experienced the impact of extreme weather on their production - it's just one of the reasons why food prices across the globe have risen.  A report by the think-tank The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, shows climate change, coupled with the energy crisis, has pushed up the UK's food bill by £17 billion since 2021.  We report from a farm in Surrey where a change in climate has made food production more costly and speak to a professor of agriculture and food systems at the University of Edinburgh who's just back from the COP28 summit

Police in the Thames Valley have bought off-road motorbikes to help them chase criminals across fields and green lanes, and other places where cars can't go. The force has invested £120,000 in three bikes and other equipment that can be used in hard-to-reach hotspots.

Presenter = Anna Hill
Producer = Rebecca Rooney

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