Quick Take — Butter cost: 83% on an annual basis

Why is the price of butter so high? Butter is made from milk fat and cream and therefore its production requires a lot of milk, the global supply of which has declined, partly due to the diseases that have affected dairy cow herds in Europe, and partly due to the high cost of feed. Then there is the issue of climate change highlighted last summer by the analysis ‘The EU dairy sector: main features, challenges and prospects’ conducted by the European Parliament’s study centre. According to the research, 13% of dairy cow herds could disappear in the next decade. The reasons for this are heat stress, which has negative effects on milk production and milk fat content, as well as on the production performance of cows, especially grazing cows. Extreme weather conditions also facilitate the outbreak of diseases. Under Auchan butter in Russia.

The winter of Brexit

The UK’s trade in goods has fallen by 10% since 2019, while that of the other G7 countries has grown by 5%. And eight years after Bexit, we know the result: an isolated country with ‘amputated’ growth, a stifled healthcare system, Northern Ireland wanting secession… the promise to regain control over immigration has ended with the number of incoming foreigners doubling

Quick Take — Lack of coordination on issues concerning agriculture, energy and fisheries generate GDP losses of $25 trillion/year

their actions fuel interconnected crises in nature, climate and human health, according to an international report on biodiversity science policy For example, unsustainable agricultural practices may increase yields in the short term, but overuse of chemical inputs causes runoff pollution, which damages downstream water quality and increases human health burdens, including water-borne diseases… Biodiversity is declining at a rate of between 2 and 6 per cent per decade, weakening ecosystems that underpin food security and climate resilience, according to IPBES scientists. In addition, extreme weather events related to climate change have caused 12,000 disasters in the last 50 years, causing $4.3 trillion in damage, with 90 per cent of the effects falling on low-income countries.