An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
British
supermarkets
are
driving rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms
responsible for illegal
deforestation
,
according to a three-year investigation of the global trade in Brazilian cattle
products.
Farmers in developing countries are struggling despite recent rises in the
price of commodities they produce, the Fairtrade Foundation says in a new
report.