Increasing demand for meat in the land of the Pyramids is leading to more intensive farming, with serious consequences for food prices, the environment and animal welfare, reports Joseph Mayton in Cairo
… Egypt's factory farming boom threatens … Investigations Hunger Sustainability egypt-image1.jpg Increasing demand for meat in … welfare, reports Joseph Mayton in Cairo Egyptians like their meat. They eat a lot of …
The latest food scare - the contamination of British eggs with the cancer causing chemical dioxin - can be linked to our reliance on complex food chains and industrial production methods, report Joanna Blythman and Tom Levitt
… Dioxin Industrial Farming Chickens Chemicals egypt-image1.jpg The modern industrial farm …
Politicians of the future may need to start taxing and controlling the consumption and production of grain-fed chicken and pork, says government funded report
… News Food And Farming Meat Factory-farming egypt-image1.jpg Meat consumption may have to …
Increasing density of livestock production and poor biosecurity in Asia is encouraging epidemics, with a new disease emerging every four months, says new International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) report
In the midst of a dire need to feed millions of people facing hunger because of drought, Kenya's newly passed Biosafety Act allows for the importation of GM crops - but at what cost?
… fourth African nation, after South Africa, Egypt and Burkino Faso, to legalise GM crops. …
With no food miles, no additives and no duty involved, making your own alcohol saves both money and the planet. Hannah Corr explains how to get started
… wine making becoming an obsession in ancient Egypt, Greece and eventually Rome. So …
One of Africa's last remaining tropical forests, Mabira is home to precious wildlife and is an eco tourist attraction. But it is now under threat from sugarcane production. Esther Nakkazi reports
… that share the Nile downstream- Sudan and Egypt. Conservationists have warned that in …
The health of our soils is more important now than ever, says the Soil Association’s Helen Browning - especially with the challenges that climate change will bring ...
… and act on it - quickly! A project in Sekem, Egypt, has shown how even desert can be turned …
In an exclusive extract from his new book, World on the Edge, Lester Brown outlines fresh ways of thinking about water and land use in order to sustain the world's growing population
… rice is such a thirsty crop. Similarly, Egypt restricts rice production in favor of …
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital
… supporting the US’s WTO action, now that Egypt has pulled out, African farmers are …
Can traditional water-harvesting systems teach us how to solve contemporary water problems? Michael Kenneth Cowan says we have a lot to learn from the ancient and troubled ecology of the Middle East
… international trade. Around 2,600BC, Egyptian pharaohs imported 40 ships full of … Yearly evaporation on the Aswan Dam, in Egypt, is measured in cubic kilometres. Silt …
We can continue to squander our resources and react to food crises as they happen, or we can fundamentally change the way the food systems work, says Carolyn Steel
… it was Rome waging war on Carthage and Egypt to secure grain reserves, or Paris …
Unilever denies some female employees at its Rainforest Alliance-certified tea plantation in Kenya are subjected to sexual harassment. But Dutch research outfit SOMO paints a very different picture. Verity Largo and Andrew Wasley report
… second biggest exporter globally. Pakistan, Egypt and the UK are among the biggest …