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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

Household food bills ‘risk pressure from degraded soil and climate volatility’

Staples such as potatoes could be particularly exposed in terms of the pressure on family budgets, Save Soil said (Nick Ansell/PA) - (PA Archive)

Households are facing further cost pressures on their food bills due to degraded soils and climate volatility, according to campaigners.

The Save Soil movement said it had estimated that a typical household could potentially end up paying hundreds of pounds more per year.

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