A new study sets out the huge benefits of organic farming to people and the environment, writes Peter Melchett, including more wildlife, healthier consumers and farm workers, lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduced soil erosion and increased water retention. We need more of it, fast!
… We need more organic farming! Peter Melchett Soil Association | 23rd March 2017 Comment Farming Food Organic Pesticides Health Water … study sets out the huge benefits of organic farming to people and the environment, writes …
There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
… Holden | 7th September 2016 Comment Food Farming Health GMOs Pesticides … food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick … conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to …
A budding interest in organic food offers farmers soaring incomes and higher yields, but critics say it's not the answer to India's fast-rising food demands
… Organic farming – India's future perfect? Nishika … The Guardian | 12th May 2011 Comment Food And Farming Organic Food Pesticides Industrial … land is repaired through natural farming methods. Organic farming only took off …
A new study by scientists at the University of Michigan in the US suggests that on farms in industrialised countries, organic farming can produce comparable yields to those achieved by conventional farming.
… Organic farming CAN feed the world 17th July 2007 News Organic Organics Farming Agriculture Pesticides Fertilisers Intensive Agriculture Farming Organics Food And Farming Society News …
With Brexit the UK will have to chose between two visions of our farming future, writes Keith Tyrell. Will it be heavily subsidised corporate agribusiness that ravages both nature and small, high quality farmers. Or will we seize the chance to build a sustainable food and farming system that supports wildlife, landscape, family farms, organic production and diverse rural economies?
… Keith Tyrell PAN UK | 25th August 2016 News Farming Food Brexit UK Pesticides Toxics … will have to chose between two visions of our farming future, writes Keith Tyrell. Will it … the chance to build a sustainable food and farming system that supports wildlife, …
The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health. GEORGINA DOWNS responds.
… identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health Georgina Downs … and chemical-intensive conventional food and farming systems was launched today by the UN … and closely linked to industrial food and farming practices," adding, "an urgent case …
Low-input farming projects, not reliant on chemical fertilisers and pesticides, have brought significant increases in food production in Africa, south-east Asia and South America, according to a UN report
… Agroecological farming 'can double food production in Africa … Tom Levitt | 8th March 2011 News Food And Farming Agroecology Africa Pesticides … crops such as cowpeas on their land Low-input farming projects, not reliant on chemical …
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business...
… | 21st September 2010 News Dairy Factory Farming Milk Pesticides Pollution Food And Farming rotary-parlour-cropped.jpg With … continuing the trend away from sustainable farming, and it's happening because mega …
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 …
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys...
… News Food BLT Fast Food Junk Food Pigs Bacon Farming Pesticides Proccessed Food Processed Farming Fast Food Green Lifestyle Agribusiness … Pests And Pesticides Biotechnology Factory Farming Organics Agribusiness Additives …
A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reports
… Chris Milton | 26th May 2011 News Food And Farming Gm Food Security Industrial Farming Pesticides Fertilisers Investigations … A revolutionary new initiative in African farming was launched earlier this year as part …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
… Labour Kenya Toxic Chemicals Agriculture Farming Water Waste Wages Labour Unions Holland Consumerism Agribusiness Farming Carbon Dioxide Human Rights Pesticides … needs can be justified over those of food farming. Water conflicts between flower …
The history of humankind might also be said to be the history of warfare. From Roman times to the present day, human conflict has been the hallmark of our historical progression. But the fight against ourselves isn’t the only war we’ve embarked upon.
… | 26th November 2008 Reviews Bugs Book Review Farming Pesticides Farming Agribusiness Food And Farming Health Pollution Society …
Two years on from our first investigation of the impact of intensive soya farming, Friends of the Earth campaigner Nick Rau explains how progress in tackling the problems are still frustratingly slow
… Nick Rau | 14th July 2011 Comment Food And Farming Paraguay Brazil Soy Pesticides … investigation of the impact of intensive soya farming, Friends of the Earth campaigner Nick … the devastating impact of intensive soy farming on communities and the environment in …
Growing enough healthy and sustainable food has been moved to the forefront of the agriculture industry.
… Folk | 2nd September 2019 Comment Food And Farming Pesticides Sustainability Science & … ways to farm food. But can all natural farming happen for global food production and … drain into local rivers. Soil is another key farming element that's damaged by pesticides. …
Rural coffee farmers across southern Laos are sharing sustainable agricultural practices to protect both their land and health from chemical farming methods, reports ROBYN WILSON
… Coffee growers in Laos are turning to organic farming Robyn Wilson | 19th September 2017 News Laos Coffee Farming Organic Sustainable Fertiliser … both their land and health from chemical farming methods, reports ROBYN WILSON Families …
Enough of the quick fixes, the sticking plasters that scarcely cover the wound. What farmers need now is help to get off the treadmill, and that requires a wholesale rethink of our food and farming systems - argues HELEN BROWNING
… August 2018 Comment Glyphosate Pesticides UK Farming Food And Farming Food Organic Organic Farming Monsanto Health Food And Health …
Pesticides remain the 'elephant in the room' for Michael Gove, the environment secretary, and DEFRA. But until the issue is properly addressed the environmental crisis and fears for human health will only continue, argues GEORGINA DOWNS
… This is the UK Government’s plan on what UK farming will look like post Brexit. There is … and other toxic chemicals in our existing farming system appears to be the Government’s … the existing chemical intensive conventional farming system. Latest Government statistics …
Phillip Conford's treatise on the rise of the organic movement is anything but dull, says Mark Newton
… Reviews Organic Books Agriculture Food And Farming History Development Pesticides … became core to ‘good’ government policy for farming, marked by a move that possessed all … propaganda campaigns, which dismiss organic farming as: ‘the build-up of humus, through a …
Government is talking about issues like food security, climate change and oil dependency but failing to take the 'inconvenient' but necessary action says the Soil Association
… Ecologist | 6th January 2010 News Food And Farming Organic Food Crisis Pesticides … Key policy speeches by the UK food and farming minister and Government chief … food system, according to the leading organic farming body, the Soil Association. Speaking …
It's not organic but ‘pro-environmental sustainable' farming practices could help coffee farmers move away from damaging industrial monoculture
… Tsentas | 6th April 2010 Activism Food And Farming Coffee Costa Rica Earthwatch … Marcos De Tarrazu Mark Chandler Industrial Farming coffee-bean.jpg Coffee beans: the … organic but ‘pro-environmental sustainable' farming practices could help coffee farmers …
Neal's Yard Remedies is a cut above other skincare companies in its commitment to natural ingredients. Laura Sevier speaks to owner Peter Kindersley about the brand's deep ecology
… and he began to explain what industrial farming was - what he called "agribusiness" as … doubting Kindersley's commitment to organic farming and the environment. In Sheepdrove …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… | 3rd February 2017 Comment Health Pesticides Farming Politics UK USA Regulation … to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it … discussions on pesticides in agriculture/farming have played a part in any capacity? …