Peter Rosset argues for small farms in the North...and Vandana Shiva champions those in the South
… Small scale farming: A global perspective Peter Rosset … | 3rd June 2000 News Local Food Production Farming Rural Communities Farmers' Markets Productivity Efficiency Agriculture Farming Campaigns Green Lifestyle Community …
Everyone loves family farming! And so they should, writes Holly Creighton-Hird, as family farms produce most of the world's food. But the UK Government has a funny way of showing it - favouring corporate agriculture and eliminating farm payments for small land holdings. It's up to us, the public, to support small, high welfare producers.
… The future of family farming is in our hands Holly Creighton-Hird | 19th October 2014 Activism Farming UK Society … Everyone loves family farming! And so they should, writes Holly … support small, high welfare producers. Family farming is a hot topic this year. The Food and …
Teacher Jamie Feilden came up with the idea of bringing at-risk students to his family's Somerset farm for a week in 2004. Six years on and the results are breathtaking...
… Hickman | 30th April 2010 Activism Food And Farming Society Jamie's Farm National Care … term impact it has on the children. Care farming Ruth is not alone in recognising the … Britain who are members of The National Care Farming Initiative (NCFI). The NCFI began in …
The sale process of the UK's Co-op Group of its entire 70,000 acre farm estate systematically blocked community and cooperative bidders. Not a single such bid was received by the deadline.
… farm sale The Ecologist | 9th July 2014 News Farming Commons Society UK coop-4-sale.png The … to small scale, diverse, community engaged farming, fruit growing and market gardening." …
Steven Gorelick lays out just a few of the policy changes, priority shifts and new approaches that could help save rural life, and lead to more sustainable farming
… Solutions for a farming future Steven Gorelick | 7th June 2000 News Farming Agriculture Food Miles Food … Small Buusinesses Farmers' Markets Organic FarmingFarming Agribusiness Fair Trade …
Shrimp has always been associated with the small and the puny. Why then is this seemingly harmless crustacean inspiring angry protests throughout the developing world, and why have so many people died as a result? Dr Mike Shanahan investigates
… Dr Mike Shanahan | 20th March 2001 News Prawn Farming Social Damage Environmental Damage Coastal Factory Farming Food And Farming Society Investigates_38.jpg Shrimp has …
Hot on the heels of the recent revelations of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on UK meat, a new Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calls on supermarkets to prohibit 'routine mass-medication of livestock' in their supply chains, and commit to 'drastic reductions' in farm use of critically important antibiotics. Make sure your MP signs!
… Emma Rose | 11th October 2016 Comment Health Farming Consumerism Politics UK meat-cut.jpg … MP signs! Antibiotic overuse in livestock farming has made the headlines in recent … warned of a 'post-antibiotic era'. The UK farming industry also responded promptly, …
The wind farms debate rages on as the need for renewable energy grows. But is the UK in danger of putting aesthetics before the need to cut carbon emissions and adopt greener technologies?
Wind turbines: the future of renewable energy or a blight on UK countryside? Bethany Hubbard | 24th February 2012 News Wind Farms Energy Turbines Scotland Donald Trump Climate Change Society …
When people take part in the seasonal and cyclical activites of growth they are more able to put things into perspective - to make decisions that are governed by life-sustaining principles over and above financial incentive
… FARMING MATTERS RACHEL FRANCIS | 1st September 2005 Comment Farm FarmingFarming Green Living Society Archive_41.jpg …
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 …
What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome food, writes Colin Tudge, while supporting a flourishing rural economy and a sustainable, biodiverse countryside. Yet the powers that be, determined to advance industrial agriculture at all costs, are achieving the precise opposite. It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large.
… Colin Tudge | 22nd April 2016 Comment Farming Food Economics Corporations Society … GMOs tractor-cut.jpg What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome … It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large. …
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, …
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 …
The discovery of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in pork products in UK supermarkets is a call to action, writes Peter Melchett. We must end the unhygienic farming practices that only work with constant antibiotic use, and reserve the most valuable antibiotics for human use only - or face a world in which routine surgery and infections bring serious risk of death.
… Melchett | 19th June 2015 News Health Food Farming Politics Regulation … Peter Melchett. We must end the unhygienic farming practices that only work with constant … MRSA is linked to overuse of antibiotic in farming. Animals are often given antibiotics …
As thousands rely on food banks to make it through the winter and a milk price crash threatens the survival of Britain's independent dairy farmers, Colin Tudge - co-founder of this week's Oxford Real Farming Conference - examines the growing need for an agrarian renaissance to tackle the increasingly obvious failings of neoliberal agriculture.
… Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and agrarian … Colin Tudge | 4th January 2014 News Food Farming Politics Corporations GMOs … Tudge - co-founder of this week's Oxford Real Farming Conference - examines the growing need …
The UK's massive use of antibiotics on farms is breeding lethal drug resistance into bacteria.
… | 24th July 2014 Comment Recycled Health UK Farming EU Politics zac-farm-cut.jpg The UK's … key difference is vested interest. Factory farming is dependent on routine use of … Motion 247: Use of antibiotics in intensive farming . "That this House recognises that the …
Cuba is a global exemplar of organic, agroecological farming, taking place on broad swathes of land in and around its cities, write Julia Wright & Emily Morris. These farms cover 14% of the country's agricultural land, employ 350,000 people, and produce half the country's fruit and vegetables. But can they survive exposure to US agribusiness?
… Emily Morris | 27th June 2015 News Cuba Food Farming Organic Cities USA Politics Trade … a global exemplar of organic, agroecological farming, taking place on broad swathes of land … The principles of organic, or agroecological, farming were used to overcome the lack of …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… the corporate stranglehold on food and farming - is agroecology enough? Colin Todhunter | 4th March 2016 Comment Food Farming Corporations The Land India USA Mexico … is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… Large | 23rd August 2014 Ethical Living Food Farming Society Health Wellbeing UK Organic … afar the opportunity to invest in a community farming future for children's well being, health, food security, family farming and a living, working countryside. …
The thing is, I like urban farming. Rooftop gardens and window boxes excite me. Balconies filled with beans and tomatoes give me hope. Nonetheless, the ‘next big thing’ in urban horticulture has left me cold.
… Jim Thomas | 2nd April 2009 Comment Urban Farming Farmscrapers Third Green Revolution Dickson Despommier Urban Farming Urban Farming Climate Change Food And Farming …
A stones throw from where Cuadrilla lost its bid to develop a fracking operation in Lancashire, a solar farm has just won planning permission with widespread local support, writes Ben Lucas. However a 194-turbine offshore wind farm near the Isle of Wight has been refused planning consent.
Solar farm approved at rejected fracking site Ben Lucas DeSmog.uk | 11th September 2015 News Renewables Solar Wind Oceans Politics UK toyota-solar-cut.jpg A stones throw from where Cuadrilla lost its …
For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, Sheelu Francis told Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
… | 29th September 2015 Comment Food Farming India Ecology Society Corporations … organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, … agroecology - which they also call 'natural farming' or 'zero budget' farming - to address …
At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
… Julian Rose | 19th March 2015 News Poland Farming Food Corporations Politics Protest GMOs Land Grabs occupy-farming-adam_payne-cut.jpg At the heart of … the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits …