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The breaching of a major dam on the Dneipro river in southern Ukraine is unfolding as a human, environmental and economic tragedy for thousands of people who live downstream. But there are global implications too. Ukraine is one of the world’s biggest wheat producers and exporters.

We’ve been looking into gene editing this week. The Royal Society is currently working on a paper looking at what changes can be made to plants by both gene editing and genetic modification. They say gene editing alone has limitations.

More than a thousand London school children have been to a Dartmoor farm this week, without even leaving the city boundaries.
Shallowford Farm, which normally hosts young people for residential farming experiences on Dartmoor, has created a ‘pop up’ farm.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.