The state of our soils is an enormous threat to future food security - we need to fully embrace organic methods.
… Embracing organic farming - once and for all Natalie Bennett | … and action. So much was clear as the Real Farming Conference celebrated its first … set up in direct opposition to the Oxford Farming Conference, its “mainstream”, National …
A once quiet voice, hard to distinguish against the grinding machine of intensive food production is now shouting above the noise. LAURA BRIGGS reports on the growing interest in grass as a feeding option
… is.... Laura Briggs | 18th July 2016 News Farming Food Livestock Grass-fed Industrial Farming Traditional Farming cows grass 1015.jpg A once quiet …
Michael Gove's agriculture bill ignores the problems local farmers face in producing healthy and sustainable food, argues NATALIE BENNETT
… Farming for food: Gove’s agriculture bill … The meeting on the future of sustainable farming held last week by Waveney Green Party … talk of providing access to new entrants to farming (although none of the reform of land …
How to make farming 'climate friendly' was one of the hot topics at COP22 in Marrakesh, writes Natalie Bennett, with two contrasting models on show: 'climate smart' agriculture, with its reliance on industrial farming systems; and agroecology, which works with nature to build fertile, high-carbon, moisture-retaining soils, and sustain employment for millions of skilled land workers.
… Chantge COP22 farm-cuba-cut.jpg How to make farming 'climate friendly' was one of the hot … agriculture, with its reliance on industrial farming systems; and agroecology, which works … greater changes to agriculture. Industrial farming has massively reduced the amount of …
UK's new trade and agriculture commission must address the dangers and inequalities rife in meat farming and processing.
… Meat Covid Agriculture Livestock Food And Farming Editor’s Picks Factory farmed pig UK's … the dangers and inequalities rife in meat farming and processing. The explosion of … lines serving the mass production of factory farming in giant plants in which the business …
We are what we eat. Concerns about climate change, environmental stress and animal welfare mean that what we eat is an ethical as well as a health issue. LAURA BRIGGS meets two women promoting the new Wildevore diet, claiming it improves the health of the individual, and the world in which they live
… patch, buying locally and from regenerative farming methods, and you’ll be some way to … have to be incredibly choosy. Intensive farming, GMOs, antibiotics and mistreatment of … help regenerate the ecosystem, it’s just most farming systems don’t function this way and …
With the diversity of food crops falling dramatically and just three giant corporations controlling over 75 per cent of the global seed supply, it's no wonder people feel disconnected from their food. LAURA BRIGGS learns more about a new UK Seed Co-operative which aims to redress the balance
… | 10th May 2017 Ethical Living Seed Food And Farming Biodiversoty Resilience seed … BBC Future Food category of the BBC Food and Farming Awards - the Seed Co-operative - is … seed does, and this only works in organic farming systems." The Seed Co-operative is at …
We need to overhaul what we grow, and how and where we grow it, if we are to make the most of our land and fight climate change.
… 2019 News Land Use Soil Association Food And Farming Wetlands Diet Vegetables Green Party … That’s what was done at the Oxford Real Farming Conference , when the campaigning … of the best agricultural land being used for farming is being put to far from ideal …
Seaweed is known for its culinary uses and has seen a renaissance in past years thanks to its health claims and a distinctive taste - but there are more ecological benefits to seaweed that currently remain untapped.
… Seaweed Biofuels Energy Animal Feed Food And Farming seaweed.jpg Seaweed is known for its … untapped. The primary reason for seaweed farming right now is for bioenergy research …
A gap in the market and the digital age has seen the British organic cut flower industry flourish over the last couple of years - with chemical-free, low air-mile blooms finally seeing their day in the sun. LAURA BRIGGS reports on the homegrown market that offers a bigger variety of flowers and without the environmental costs of imported ones
If you're saying 'it' with flowers this UK Bank Holiday weekend make sure they're locally grown Laura Briggs | 26th August 2016 News Flowers Organic Cut Flowers Environmental Costs British Growers …
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 …
With what should perhaps be described as fantastic enthusiasm, a collective of architects, designers, engineers, urban planners and entrepreneurs have submitted a proposal to the Governments of the United States and Mexico to create a land with no borders. LAURA BRIGGS wonders if she should take the proposal seriously...
… oil or mining) and instead relying on solar farming and electric transportation. The …
The world’s mismanagement of the nitrogen cycle is 'our forgotten environmental crisis'.
… | 22nd July 2021 | News Nitrogen Food And Farming cows-801045_960_720.jpg The world’s … This is yet one more issue with factory farming - the concentration of animals, and …
Weeds are destroying crops globally - but the real problem is Big Agriculture.
… Bennett | 14th April 2021 | Comment Food And Farming Editor’s Picks Soybean farming, Mato Grosso Weeds are destroying … Yet now, the concept is rising up fast in farming discussions, and the Food and …
Agroecology, plant-based diets and scathing critiques of REDD+ have reached the mainstream at this year’s climate talks, argues NATALIE BENNETT
… moving in the same positive direction as the farming and food discussion, driven by the … discussing the damage intensive livestock farming is doing. Food security That ranged … the agroecological and organic approaches to farming. It’s also in tune with the approach …
Europe must learn from Indonesia's restoration of its peatlands if we are to cut agricultural carbon emissions.
… to emit carbon even when no longer used for farming. Professor Joosten said: “As the soil … of agriculture: “We only have dry farming because the technologies we still rely … to Katowice. That was a reminder that arable farming isn’t the only land use that is deeply …
Marine ecologists have shown how noise pollution is changing the behaviour of marine animals - and how its elimination will significantly help build their resilience. LAURA BRIGGS reports
Ecology Research Report: How noise pollution impacts marine ecology Laura Briggs | 12th December 2016 News Marine Ecology Marine Research Renewables Noise Pollution marine pollution.jpg Marine …
The Soil Association is calling on bread producers and supermarkets to stop making and selling bread products that contain traces of Glyphosate. LAURA BRIGGS reports.
… Soil Association Bread Campaigning Food And Farming glyphosate in bread.jpg The Soil … to the Soil Association glyphosate use in UK farming has increased by 400% in the last 20 …
The Save Our Magnificent Meadows partnership hopes to demonstrate the fragility and importance of our fast-disappearing Great British meadows.
… Meadows would have developed thanks to farming practices, with many people owning … one day meadows can be an integral part of farming once again. On July 1 barefoot …
In 2016 the UK imported £26 million worth of fur, showing that the industry has gone global. Only by exposing the level of cruelty and showing people what lies behind the fashion will change ever come about writes LAURA BRIGGS
… Jackson has created a documentary on fur farming, Klatki , where he follows the …
In 2020 the fate of Devon's River Otter wild beavers will be decided. With Chris Packham backing the campaign to save the species and the protection of beavers into Scotland recently getting the go-ahead, the outlook is bright for the species.LAURA BRIGGS reports
… to be welcomed back into the landscape by the farming community, the reintroduction needs to … across the conservation, land management and farming spectrum. We would urge government to …
How can we bridge the gap between ‘fast food' living and responsible consumption when mass production and a throw-away mindset still dominate the lifestyles of most people? LAURA BRIGGS has some thoughts...
… April 2017 Ethical Living Organic Allotment Farming Food Consumer Choices allotment.jpg …