Researchers claim the benefits of combining conservation and food production through organic farming are not enough to make up for the drop in yields
… The Ecologist | 6th May 2010 News Food And Farming Organic Biodiversity Wildlife … and food production through organic farming are not enough to make up for the drop in yields Organic farming increases biodiversity but not enough …
With most of our food exports going to the EU, and most of our food imports coming from the EU, Molly Scott Cato wondered what plans the government had for the sector after Brexit. The answer? None! Two reports published today map out a positive future of sustainable farming, local food, thriving rural economies and abundant biodiversity. But is the government on the same page?
… Brexit and the future of farming: threat or opportunity? Molly Scott Cato MEP | 21st February 2017 Comment Farming Biodiversity Economics Politics Brexit … map out a positive future of sustainable farming, local food, thriving rural economies …
EU Commission proposes compulsory environmental measures for farmers in reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) but campaigners fear member states will weaken final agreement
… Tom Levitt | 19th November 2010 News Food And Farming CAP Biodiversity Farm Subsidy … altogether would led to more intensive farming practices, a concentration of … it acknowledged that current European farming methods were leading to soil …
David Attenborough's latest documentary shows the natural world in peril. But the solutions are already in place - a nature friendly future is possible.
… Organic Rob Percival Pesticides Regenerative Farming Wild Isles Biodiversity Soil … on BBC iPlayer highlighted. There is a way of farming that doesn’t rely on destructive … that eat crop pests. There is a way of farming that uses plants to fertilise soils …
The EU's farming policy is being touted as 'greener than ever' - but it's no such thing, write Lynn Dicks & Tim Benton. The 'green reforms' pay farmers for actions (and often inactions) that do not benefit wildlife, and contain no real or effective measures to help.
… Dicks Tim Benton | 17th June 2014 Comment Farming Natural World Biodiversity EU farm-ludlow-cut.jpg The EU's farming policy is being touted as 'greener … As part of a team of environmental and farming experts from across the EU, we …
To feed the world we must abandon not just GMOs but all diversity-destroying selective crop breeding, organic farmer John Letts told Oliver Tickell. Only by using biodiverse local seed mixtures that evolve in the field can food production adapt to climate change without ever-increasing chemical inputs, and meet human needs for wholesome nourishment.
… Farming with the grain - John Letts and his … Oliver Tickell | 10th November 2016 Other Farming Food Organic Biodiversity Seeds GMOs … and drawing conclusions about food, diet, farming systems and climate. One day a friend …
Corncrakes were once widespread across the country until populations fell dramatically with the intensification of farming.
… Birds can recover from intensive farming Conor Riordan | 9th July 2020 News Intensive Farming Biodiversity RSPB Corncrakes … fell dramatically with the intensification of farming. A project to protect one of …
The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored. KATHRYN HINDESS reports
… Real Farming Report - Whose seeds are they anyway? … 2016 News Seed Biodiversity Agribusiness Food Farming seedlings.jpg The new People Need … coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming …
For decades Israel has been driving Palestinian farmers off their land by imposing restrictions on agriculture, writes JONATHAN COOK. But one company, Canaan Fair Trade, has found an innovative way to resist peacefully, increasing resilience and prosperity in rural West Bank communities, and forging international alliances in the global movement for good food and farming.
… Jonathan Cook | 19th August 2016 News Food Farming Middle East Green Economy Seeds … in the global movement for good food and farming. Across the West Bank, olive trees can … native soil Some threats to the Palestinian farming community are more insidious, though …
Research from the University of Leeds, in England, and the University of Veracruz, in Mexico, concludes shoppers have to get past 'ick factor'.
… News Climate Breakdown Biodiversity Food And Farming Insects 21388755-1.jpg Research from … attitudes towards eating insects and current farming techniques and technologies need to … the University of Veracruz, in Mexico, said. Farming The report found that edible insect …
Less meat, fewer pesticides can mean more food, more future.
… Reporter | 21st February 2019 News Organic Farming Soil Association Biodiversity Thought Leaders family-farming-cut.jpg Less meat, fewer pesticides … reduced in Europe through agroecological farming, which would still produce enough …
Claims such as 'responsibly farmed' are being used to boost supermarket sales but do not always mean an environmentally-friendly fish product
Supermarkets misleading consumers over 'sustainably sourced' seafood Tom Levitt | 10th January 2011 News Fish Biodiversity Natural World Food Tesco Seafood tunatinned.jpg Tuna labelled as 'dolphin …
Campaign group calls for a consumer boycott of tropical prawns to stop environmental pollution and human rights abuse in Bangladesh
… 30th September 2011 News Prawns Fish Food And Farming Mangroves Biodiversity … of economic benefit to Bangladesh, shrimp farming causes pollution, degradation of …
As reform of the EU's agriculture policy gets underway, Miles King of the Grassland Trust tells Matilda Lee how intensive farming has all but destroyed England's 'rainforests' and why it's time we started asking for more from our farmers
… Lee | 11th October 2011 Activism Food And Farming CAP Grasslands Biodiversity Intensive … Trust tells Matilda Lee how intensive farming has all but destroyed England's … have dominated the landscape since Neolithic farming settlements began to clear England's …
Wild bee decline is closely associated with the advance of intensive farming and habitat loss, a new study shows. It follows an earlier paper that linked 'delayed action' decline of wild bees to exposure to pesticides including fungicides - previously considered 'bee-safe'.
… Beyond Pesticides | 28th December 2015 News Farming Health Toxics Science Bees … associated with the advance of intensive farming and habitat loss, a new study shows. …
Beavers, Europe’s largest rodent, are a keystone species who transform the landscape around them, creating new habitats.
… landscape reserved entirely for industrial farming. As well as breeding beavers at his … dies and we pay for it.” Gow blames farming subsidies for encouraging many farmers … to seek to preserve the post-world-war-two farming landscape. Up until Brexit, the UK …
While the UN is celebrating the international year of biodiversity conservation groups in the UK worry that a rising number of isolated populations are in danger of becoming extinct
… a spokesperson for the RSPB. Habitat loss and farming Conservation groups like the RSPB … the biggest driver of this habitat loss is farming practices. What do you think? Comment … Professor Bullock says pollution run-off from farming is killing biodiversity. 'A key …
England becoming a country of 'beauty spots rather than beauty', and must act fast to address declining biodiversity, says the government’s environment watchdog
… solid future for our wildlife.’ Intensive farming The intensification of agriculture was … what we need to see is more sustainable farming,’ he added. Re-introduction of …
We are losing species to extinction at an unprecedented rate and human activity is the culprit - can going vegan help?
… Elena Orde | 5th April 2019 News Food And Farming Extinction Vegan Biodiversity … UK wildlife, and again experts cite modern farming methods as the culprit. In a recent …
Just imagine: gas for your cooking and heating made by composting home-grown British grass, writes Almuth Ernsting. What's not to like? Well, it would need almost all the UK's grassland to match our gas demand, leaving cows and sheep to starve or forcing them into sheds to eat foreign-grown feeds. And methane leakage could easily wipe out any climate benefit.
… | 27th January 2017 Comment Biofuels Energy Farming Biodiversity UK Renewables … domestic factory farms. Intensive livestock farming, including growing soya and other …
'The preservation of the Amazon isn't just about protecting nature - it's about safeguarding our own health.'
… land use, agricultural expansion, livestock farming, mining activities, biodiversity loss, … of the Amazon and emerging diseases. Cattle farming is one of the main factors in the … agriculture and forest conversion for farming and pasture for cattle, increase …
Bullfighting may cause suffering to animals, but that does not mean the EU should ban it or withdraw farm subsidies, writes Robin Irvine. Traditional bull-breeding estates are valuable reservoirs of biodiversity in intensively farmed landscapes, and without the bulls there would be nothing to sustain them.
… of St Andrews | 28th December 2015 Comment Farming Animal Welfare Biodiversity …
If you live or spend time in the UK countryside it may have been some time since you spotted the native brown hare - if you've ever seen one at all. That's because the hare relies on an increasingly disappearing biodiverse landscape for its food. LAURA BRIGGS talks to the scientists behind a new study investigating what type of planting - including bioenergy crops - will help stop hare populations from continuing to decline
… | 6th June 2017 Comment Hares Conservation Farming Biomass Biodiversity brown hare.jpg If … hedgerow has been destroyed over 50 years of farming, cutting off the hare's source of food … of farmland, many of which have been lost as farming has intensified. Our research suggests …