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Oxfam focused its supermarket scorecard on three aspects of human rights: workers, women and small-scale farmers, which are among the most vulnerable groups in food production, according to Achterberg.

Some of those water savings have come through the Biden administration’s funding of programs that pay farmers to temporarily leave fields dry to reduce water use.

The damage could be significant for U.S. farmers, who sell about 77% of their sorghum exports to China.

“Because it’s relatively cheap, farmers will usually apply about twice as much fertilizer as needed by the crops, just to make sure they get it,” Faloona said.

Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Daisy Cooper, said: "The Conservatives' botched Brexit deal has been a disaster for the economy, with small businesses, farmers and fishers all caught up in endless red tape."