Sustainable, agriculture must be low-input - and this can only achieved in diverse, tightly integrated agro-ecological systems. The real future of farming lies in complex polycultures ... in short, mixed farming.
… Low input farming - diversity is the key Colin Tudge … Harvey | 22nd January 2014 Comment Food Farming mixed-farming-3.png Sustainable, agriculture must be …
Many contemporary farmers - despite a hostile economic environment - are finding new ways to make ecological farming viable. Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey have tracked down some inspiring examples ...
… The many faces of Real Farming Colin Tudge Graham Harvey | 4th February 2014 Comment Food Farming UK wakelyns-farm.png Many contemporary … - are finding new ways to make ecological farming viable. Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey …
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. …
The Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014 begins on Monday. Graham Harvey and Colin Tudge set out its mission: farming systems producing healthy, affordable food in harmony with environment and wildlife.
… Colin Tudge | 2nd January 2013 Comment Food Farming vegetables.png The Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014 begins on Monday. … Harvey and Colin Tudge set out its mission: farming systems producing healthy, affordable …
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 …
Farming today is well on the way to becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the agro-chemical-biotech industry, writes Colin Tudge. Defra and the European Commission are all too keen to make it so, reflecting the interests of an agro-oligarchy obsessed with profits and growth at all costs. But there is an alternative. Join the 'real farming' agrarian renaissance ...
… Farming for profit? Or for people, nature, … Colin Tudge | 19th November 2014 Activism UK Farming Natural World Toxics Economics brussells-sprouts-cut.jpg Farming today is well on the way to becoming a …
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
… Graham Harvey | 6th January 2014 Comment Food Farming clover-and-fescue.png The way to a … agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking … for a new agriculture' at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme is …
Colin Tudge reports on The College of Real Farming and Food Culture; a project designed to tackle the current issues in global food production. The current system is not fit for purpose but through a holistic approach and an overhaul of current mainstream agriculture, achieving a balance between feeding the world and conserving the environment is within grasp.
… Colin Tudge | 28th January 2016 Other Farming Food vegetable-medley-1549802 copy.jpg … Colin Tudge reports on The College of Real Farming and Food Culture; a project designed … is within grasp. The College of Real Farming and Food Culture (CRFFC) aims to …
The claims made for GM agriculture are a transparent fraud. The real purpose of GM foods is to give giant corporations legally-enforceable monopoly powers over the entire global food chain.
… real point of GM food is corporate control of farming Colin Tudge | 1st November 2013 News Food And Farming News Gm Food Agriculture GMO … report of 2012 on The Future of Food and Farming [1] His argument was, and is, that a …
With two thirds of EU regulatory environmental protections already enshrined in UK law, is farming really in danger from Brexit?
… protections already enshrined in UK law, is farming really in danger from Brexit? Michael … Secretary’s speech to the 2019 Oxford Farming Conference he espoused views that … reward the rich and hold back small-scale farming initiatives. So with the best of a bad …
'The success of Vegans Support the Farmers shows both vegans and farmers have a hunger for real solutions and a better future for us and our families.'
… Goodey | 30th April 2024 | Comment Food And Farming Local Farmers Veganism Editor’s Picks … wake people up to the realities faced by the farming sector, that our food system … is raising £100,000 to help support the farming community. The latest data available …
Building resilience to flood and drought is all about working with farmers, writes Colin Tudge. Simple things like ploughing across slopes, not up and down them, planting trees, and caring for soils, can make a huge difference in helping rainwater to sink into the ground, not run off. And to make it happen, the government must take a lead.
… Colin Tudge | 2nd January 2015 Comment Farming Water Floods UK The Land … arithmetic tells us that a few tweaks in farming could make a huge difference to … they should then be integrated into the farming system as a whole to become a true …
To reform farming, we have to look at the bigger picture.
… 2021 | News Resurgence & Ecologist Food And Farming Housing … To reform farming, we have to look at the bigger … we cannot put right the wrongs of food and farming just by focusing on farming. This Author Colin Tudge is a …
To reform farming, we have to look at the bigger picture.
… Tudge | 1st February 2021 | Comment Food And Farming Land Capitalism Resurgence & Ecologist … Editor’s Picks countryside-cut.jpg To reform farming, we have to look at the bigger … we cannot put right the wrongs of food and farming just by focusing on farming. This …
The Ecologist Guide to Food is no soft-centered feel-good flim-flam, warns Jan Goodey, as it tackles tough topics like the slave labour behind your prawns and tomatoes: essential reading for concerned gourmets everywhere.
… Jan Goodey | 6th February 2014 Reviews Food Farming Labour food-guide-image.png The … picking season is over. Small scale organic farming is posited as a possible alternative … dark side ... When it comes to livestock and farming the investigations at home and abroad …
From banks that are too big to fail, to food banks for the too small to matter, the global econom systematically pumps money from the social economy and the poor up into the hands of a tiny minority of wealthy beneficiaries, writes Colin Tudge. Farmers, trapped between mountains of debt and low food prices, are among the main victims. It's time for a big rethink, starting from first principles.
… | 26th February 2016 Comment Finance Food Farming UK Politics euro-cut.jpg From banks … more heroic loans - an aspect of the 'bold' farming that was a prime theme of this year's Oxford Farming Conference (not to be confused with …
In her new book The Vandana Shiva Reader, the celebrated campaigner and scientist deplores the way in which the Green Revolution forced India's poorest farmers off their land, writes Colin Tudge. Now she fears even worse outcomes in Africa where a GMO-fuelled farming revolution is under way.
… Colin Tudge | 12th July 2015 Reviews Food Farming Science Technology GMOs Seeds … worse outcomes in Africa where a GMO-fuelled farming revolution is under way. The Green … events unfolding from the midst of the Indian farming communities that are most affected, …
You can't buy a seed unless its strain has been expensively registered. But you can swap them with fellow gardeners, helping food growing and biodiversity to thrive
… Goodey | 4th February 2010 Activism Food And Farming How To Make A Difference Seed Swaps … proprietary agrochemicals. In Peru more local farming communities are kicking the habit and … 10 resources for better food growing Food and farming is in crisis but there is hope for the …
The article, 'Have we got it right on meat and greenhouse gas emissions?' misses an important point made at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, which is that properly managed pasture is a net carbon sink
… | 9th April 2010 Comment Letter Food And Farming cowsoutdoors.jpg The article, 'Have we … an important point made at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, which is that properly … could pose a challenge to our views on best farming practice INVESTIGATION Can cows help …
From Slough to the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden & Wildlife Project in Brighton, Warren Carter is a radical food grower on a mission to transform the lives of troubled youngsters. Jan Goodey meets him
… Goodey | 26th April 2011 Activism Food And Farming Society Moulescoomb Forest Garden & …
Campaigners up and down the country are trying to stop public access land from going under the hammer as UK councils seek ways to plug the Government funding gap. JAN GOODEY reports
… to increase revenues with industrialised farming, minerals quarrying, wind turbines, …
Fun and easy to make, seedbombs can be used to green up hard-to-access urban wasteland or in your garden at home
… Jan Goodey | 18th May 2010 Activism Food And Farming Gardening Guerilla Gardening Seedbombs … agriculture by initiating just such 'natural farming' methods. With seedbombs you can …