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Screenshot of a tweet by Alex Hargreaves "Spain produced 32% of UK's fresh veg. Most of this is grown in Almeria's 40,000ha of greenhouses, which have just been wiped out by Storm Dana. We need to be better prepared for food shortages." There are four photos, one showing the density of intact greenhouses (literally ever field is covered in them), one is a satellite image showing how much of Almeria is greenhouses, one is an egg next to hailstones the same size and one is shattered panes of glass on greenhouses

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Screenshot of a tweet by Alex Hargreaves "Spain produced 32% of UK's fresh veg. Most of this is grown in Almeria's 40,000ha of greenhouses, which have just been wiped out by Storm Dana. We need to be better prepared for food shortages." There are four photos, one showing the density of intact greenhouses (literally ever field is covered in them), one is a satellite image showing how much of Almeria is greenhouses, one is an egg next to hailstones the same size and one is shattered panes of glass on greenhouses
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Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 04:10:03 JST Jules

COVID should have taught us but didn't that global supply chains are vulnerable to disasters, whether disease or weather, which will both become more common with climate change so we should be investing more in local small scale food production. Instead we have situations where small local producers like Down Farm https://www.instagram.com/downfarmwinkleigh? which used to supply our weekly veg box are going out of business because they can't make producing fresh food locally financially viable.

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