Hurrah for agribusiness

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20 Jul 2008

Rocketing food prices have propelled agriculture into the news. Recent coverage includes James Heartfield’s contribution to a debate in east London. This was unexpectedly complemented by an episode of Jimmy Doherty’s Farming Heroes on BBC2 in which a small-scale farmer found himself impressed by large scale agriculture (also discussed on spiked). The contrary view is put by the likes of Felicity Lawrence of the Guardian.