Jeremy Piercy is the founder and managing director of Fair Trade and eco business Shared Earth. As the UK charts its course through the Covid-19 storm and out of the other side of the pandemic, Piercy, along with other members of the company, believe that the government must appropriately consider the future of small retailers and rebuild the economy with the climate crisis in mind. To this end, he has written to roughly 100 cross-party MPs to share his thoughts.
The government is considering providing support to the dairy industry in the form of hardship payments to farmers, while the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [DEFRA] has already relaxed competition law to help the sector.
Margate based bread producer Speciality Breads has reported that home baking has become a popular pastime during the UK Covid-19 lockdown, with some bread recipes going viral online along with an increase in related internet searches.
In conversation with The Parliamentary Review, Geoffrey Grewcock, owner and founder of Nuneaton & Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, discusses how the Covid-19 outbreak has affected the day-to-day running and potentially the very future of animal sanctuaries across the UK and further afield.
The new UK plan for future greener farming announced by newly appointed environment secretary George Eustice will make sector operators sit up and take note, after underlining how DEFRA plans to address some of the omissions in the landmark Environment Bill.
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Best Practice Representative | Published July 26th 2018
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Best Practice Representative | Published September 11th 2018
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