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What is biodynamic wine, and which bottles should you pick?
Laura Sevier
8th April, 2010
Its principals may seem strange but biodynamic winegrowers are in a league of their own when it comes to caring for soil, plant and planet. Plus, 10 wines to try in 2010 more...
Robert Kenner: Big Food will do everything to stop you talking about this
Laura Sevier
9th February, 2010
Filmmaker Robert Kenner's documentary Food Inc has shocked audiences across the US with its stark portrayal of industrial agriculture. And that's just the bits the lawyers let you see...more...
UK overseas aid ignoring small scale agriculture
Ecologist
3rd February, 2010
Department for International Development (DfID) accused of failing to support long-term agricultural programmes and being obsessed with an 'industrial model' of food production more...
Agriculture: Copenhagen's blind spot
Peter Melchett
7th December, 2009
By not properly discussing agriculture at national or international climate negotiations, we are avoiding tackling not just a huge source of emissions, but also a potential carbon sink more...
How to get community investment in green projects
Ed Hamer
11th November, 2009
Many a good idea has floundered for lack of funds, but with today's models for community finance this need no longer be so... more...
CASE STUDY: setting up an organic market garden
Laura Sevier
26th April, 2007
Septuagenarian Mehr Fardoonji is still to be found with her hands in the soil after forty-five years of organic market gardening more...
How the Government could easily fix our food chain
Kirtana Chandrasekaran
13th October, 2009
Our growing demand for cheap feed to produce cheap meat is exacting a terrible human and environmental price. But the solutions are clear, and are within our reach more...
Japanese turn to farming to find fulfilment
Hiroyo Hasegawa
23rd July, 2009
Growing in popularity in Japan, a new environmental lifestyle choice is helping people grow their own food, reconnect with the land and pursue more fulfilling vocations more...
Habitats report shows sorry state of EU biodiversity
Ecologist
14th July, 2009
A report by the European Commission shows that habitat and wildlife protection targets across Europe will be missed, with nine out of 10 UK habitats found to be in 'unfavourable' condition more...
Change farming to cut CO2 emissions by 25 per cent
Eifion Rees
3rd July, 2009
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year more...
Industrial nations must tackle deforestation at Copenhagen, say MPs
Ecologist
30th June, 2009
A Commons environmental audit committee has called for industrialised nations to change their patterns of consumption if alarming rates of global deforestation are to be arrested and reversed more...
EU approves 'stepping stone' legislation for cloned meat
Ecologist
24th June, 2009
European Union ministers have given an initial thumbs-up to the Novel Foods Regulation, a draft proposal that could lead to meat from cloned animals entering the human food chain more...
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Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website
Eifion Rees
22nd June, 2009
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic more...
The Visionaries
Ecologist
20th March, 2009
Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.more...
Visionaries: Jimmie Hepburn
Ecologist
1st April 2009
‘“Visionary” is a terrible word to use,’ Jimmie Hepburn grimaces. ‘I’m not doing this for my own ego. I’m happy for contributions and new ideas; I’m starting from scratch here, but I want people to build upon this.’ more...
Land in Latin America exploited by West's demand for meat
Ecologist
1st February, 2009
Agricultural expansion on a massive scale in Latin America has directly paralelled the West’s greed for meat. A new report follows the food chain and assesses the damage.more...
Farmers unite!
Ed Hamer
1st April, 2009
The uniting of 800 million rural workers against the loss of their traditional way of life gives lie to globalisation’s claims to beneficence. Resistance is far from futile, says Ed Hamer more...
US Department of Agriculture worried about GM food imports
News
6th March, 2009
Having exported largely untested GM crops around the world for decades, the US is suddenly starting to worry about what genetically modified organisms other countries might send their way. more...
Capital Growth: London’s floating gardens
Louise Downing
26th February, 2009
Capital Growth and British Waterways have teamed up in a bid to convert London’s canals into flourishing floating vegetable gardens. more...
Bent Bananas
Joanna Blythman
13th January, 2009
The economies of whole islands in the Caribbean face ruin if the WTO, acting at the behest of US-owned multinationals, forces the EU to end preferential trade agreements with small-scale West Indian banana producers more...
Opening a can of worms
Phil Moore
15th October, 2008
It might be fair to say that the earthworm is a farmer’s best friend. more...
A meaty issue
Simon Fairlie
1st October, 2008
Our excessive appetite for meat is taking a heavy toll on the planet, but as Simon Fairlie explains, the arguments used to depict omnivores as environmental super-villains are far too simplistic. more...
Moth balls
Claire Robinson
1st September, 2008
Is the light brown apple moth such a danger to crops both agricultural and financial that the US government will risk the health of its citizens to eradicate it? They spray, you pay, warns Claire Robinson more...
All hands to the plough
Ed Hamer
7th August, 2008
The community supports the farmer and the farmer supports the community. Why isn't everyone taking part in the latest agricultural revolution, wonders Ed Hamer more...
Fallow and fertile
Ed Hamer
20th June, 2008
Ed Hamer questions the sanity of agricultural policies that increasingly threaten the sovereignty of the British farmer, as well as the food security of the nation more...Members
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