"There are strong ethical and environmental drivers to source our plant protein from home-grown pulses, but there is much to learn and do"
By Pete Iannetta and Alison Karley, Ecological Sciences, James Hutton Institute
The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched the UK’s systems of food supply, raising further questions about the adaptability of global food systems in a crisis - in addition to those persistent issues of environmental degradation, biodiversity losses, and the numbers of citizens suffering food and nutrition scarcity.
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