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  • UK only has 100 seasons left in its soil due to intensive over-farming scientists claim

    INTENSIVE OVER-FARMING in the UK has depleted the soil of the nutrients needed to grow crops meaning that we only have 100 harvests left unless dramatic action is taken, scientists at the University of Sheffield have revealed. At the same…

  • Leaf rust: Coffee calamity

    LAST COFFEE season saw a massive outbreak of a devastating fungus that seemed to take everyone by surprise says Xavier Hamon, Climate and Environment Officer, Twin.                   The coffee leaf rust epidemic stretched…