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Farming with the sea: Suffolk farmer turns flooding threat into a nature-based solution

As climate change brings more frequent and severe flooding, innovative solutions are emerging to help tackle the challenges, such as from Patrick Bowden-Smith who farms on the Suffolk coast

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Patrick Bowden-Smith is rethinking his approach to farming due to ever more common extreme weather
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Patrick Bowden-Smith is rethinking his approach to farming due to ever more common extreme weather

It is high summer at High House 51AVÊÓÆµand a breeze whispers in a field of wheat, ready soon for the combine, while in an adjacent field, sugar beet grows green and dense, relishing long days of sunshine...

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