Interview · 9 October 2019

Interview: Extinction Rebellion farmers

  • By Sue Pritchard
What do XR farmers want? We went down to the Extinction Rebellion protest outside Defra Marsham Street offices to find out.


Note: these videos were originally published on the RSA website (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), which hosted the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission between November 2017-April 2020.

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