Radio 4 Farming today : James Rebanks explains how proposed subsidy system is worst disaster in upland agriculture : reducing income forcing farmers to add more livestock to survive, so threatening the nature we need to increase. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jtb4
Or forcing them to sell carbon credits so corporations don’t have to change their practises, but poorly planned eco unfriendly trees get planted that destroy any future food potential, and give little in real ecological benefit, and remove the farm from potential sustainability for future generations.
Public goods : trees, access, carbon credits, etc should be valued across the board, and we should be empowering and enabling farmers to learn the new soil science, create the diverse upland ecology that feeds people, creates opportunity for our rural community as well as supporting more and more wildlife, capturing carbon along the way.
Corporations should be forced to do their own clean up… invest from their massive profits before shareholders, innovate, reengineer and most of all DO WE REALLY NEED what they produce, because unlike food, increasingly the answer is NO.