Small food producers pay for net zero while others benefit

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The risks and costs of transformation are carried by the smallest actors while the reputational benefits accrue upstream, says Dr Rounaq Nayak, senior lecturer in farming systems at the University of the West of England Bristol

Retailers and food manufacturers are taking centre stage in the race to build net zero supply chains. It is an important leadership role, but we need to ask harder questions: who pays for that ambition, and who gets to decide what the transition looks like?

 

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