A host of charities have joined forces with UK farmers to urge businesses and policymakers to tackle the nature and climate crises, warning that without a nature-positive mindset, “you can’t be profit positive”.
Charities including the WWF, RSPB and the National Trust are partnering with a host of farmers and a selection of business leaders to raise awareness of the need to improve nature in agriculture in the UK.

The charities, supported by former Defra advisor Henry Dimbleby MBE and the chief executives of Tesco, NatWest and Triodos Bank and the chair of the John Lewis Partnership, warn that the UK’s food system is driving biodiversity decline.

The UK has lost almost half of its biodiversity since the industrial revolution and recent reports about high pollution levels in the UK’s rivers have attracted significant public attention to the declining state of the UK’s natural environments.

The group is calling for UK businesses to step up action as a result.

The John Lewis Partnership’s chair Dame Sharon White said: “The only sustainable way forward for us as a business, indeed I would argue for any business, is to be Nature Positive because without being Nature Positive, ultimately, you can’t be profit positive.”

To raise awareness, the groups are circulating a new film – Hungry for Change – that highlights the solutions available to farmers to prioritise biodiversity while cutting back on food loss.

The charities also note that the public is demanding change from businesses. READ further from the source