'Food has become unbelievably cheap,' says Dutch farm minister

The government is setting aside hundreds of millions of euros for experiments to reduce the impact of farming on the environment, agriculture minister Carola Schouten told the AD on Monday. ‘In the last decade the aim was to produce enough food to feed everyone,’ she said. ‘My new adage is to produce food with as little impact as possible on nature, the environment and the climate.’ A more sustainable approach to farming will raise prices, the minister said. ‘In the...