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• Should Scotland make room for the lynx?

  It's a very long time since bears, wolves and lynx hunted freely across the Scottish landscape - but the reintroduction of these large carnivores has been a topic of noisy debate pretty much since I can remember. Today, we're asking whether Scotland can make room for the lynx. Hugh Webster from Scotland: The Big Picture believes that integration is possible - while Cora Cooper, an Ayrshire sheep farmer, shares the concerns of many in her industry.For more land use stories, please visit https://8point9.com/

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• Can tenant farmers benefit from natural capital markets?

  In this programme we discuss ways in which tenant farmers can take advantage of natural capital income streams - as well addressing some of the barriers and challenges to market entry.ffinlo Costain is joined by George Dunn, Chief Executive of the Tenant Farmers' Association - and by Lucy Jenner, a director at Savills, and Head of their Natural Capital Consultancy. This is the ninth episode in our series: Filling the Funding Gap, in which we discuss how natural capital markets can help farmers transition towards resilient and regenerative food production.Filling the Funding Gap is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howden Insurance Brokers, Regenerate and Saffery.

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• Wheat from the Chaff: Farm profitability

  ffinlo Costain (8point9.com) and Joe Stanley (GWCT Allerton Project) discuss:The UK Government’s farm profitability reviewThe UK Nature Market AcceleratorThe importance of historic maps Restoring farmland in UkraineAnd a report by anonymous whistleblowers, calling for investor and creditor action to address the nature crisis.

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• Leaders - Tim Coates: Co-founder of Oxbury Bank

  8point9 editor, ffinlo Costain, is joined by Tim Coates, a co-founder of Oxbury Bank, which launched in 2021 as the only UK bank dedicated exclusively to the rural economy. In Farm Gate Leaders, ffinlo talks to someone who's played a defining role in our food and farming system - someone who's helping to deliver lasting and progressive change.

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• The cost of restoring Ukraine's agricultural soils

  In Ukraine, explosive munitions have contaminated the soil with chemicals and heavy metals - hundreds of thousands of hectares will have to be surveyed and demined - and countless craters will have to be refilled. We consider the cost of restoring Ukraine's agricultural soils.ffinlo Costain is joined by Professor Wilfred Dolfsma from Wageningen, who recently led a study into the economics of Ukrainian soil recovery - and by Nick Padwick from Wild Ken Hill.Read more on 8point9: https://8point9.com/cost-of-repairing-ukraines-war-ravaged-soils-could-be-20-billion/More information about the research here

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