and a third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasted. but it is possible for food to be intensively produced working with nature and that s what s happening here in wiltshire. it s a very good hunting ground for birds of prey. david butler s farm isn t organic but still a haven for wildlife. the grey partridge, here filmed in a different location, has declined by 85% since 1970 but is thriving on his farm. it s a nice wildlife habitat. he believes agriculture has to be balanced with nature. if we have no fertility in our soil, if we have poor air quality, if we have poor water quality then we are not going to have high yields of crops and we are not going to have healthy animals and healthy food and that directly feeds through to people. oil pours from a tanker shipwrecked off mauritius last month. this is about people destroying systems that we ourselves depend on rather than just wildlife.
protesters in central berlin. around a thousand people ignored restrictions to hold the rally which has become a weekly event in the german capital. some carried posters calling for the restoration of personal freedoms, and others accused chancellor angela merkel of banning life . next month‘s chelsea flower show is the latest event to be cancelled because of the pandemic, so organisers are taking things online. the royal horticultural society is holding a virtual flower show instead. it‘ll start each day with a top gardener, designer or florist giving an online tour of their own gardens. those who‘d been due to exhibit at the show will also replicate their displays for the online audience. 20,000 deaths from coronavirus in british hospitals. it‘s a statistic that would have sounded staggering just a couple of months ago,
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support for farmers. $6300000000.00 euros of that total goes to germany. most of that money 5000000000 euros goes directly to farmers based on how much land they own. $1300000000.00 is spent on financial support for rural areas only a small amount goes to promote the development of environmentally friendly farming methods. the ego s agricultural policy rewards big farms like burdock owned which is run by or bond unit which most farms don t turn a profit today one half of europe s total farmland is owned by just under 3 percent of all farm businesses. the e.u. s top priority is to provide maximum crop yields so that farmers can compete with cheaper produce on the world market.
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