The Food for Life 'Catering Mark' is bringing fresh, healthy and local food into schools, hospitals and canteens, writes Peter Melchett - while driving big increases in the volume of organic food we eat, and growing the market for organic farmers and local food producers.
… 'Catering Mark' is helping to deliver good food for all Peter Melchett Soil Association | 24th February 2015 Activism Food Farming Organic Health fresh-fruit-cut.jpg The Food for Life 'Catering Mark' is bringing …
A major new scientific report reveals how organic agriculture can help feed the world whilst reducing the environmental impacts, PETER MELCHETT, of the Soil Association delves into the data.
… Peter Melchett | 27th November 2017 Comment Food Organic Meat Vegetarianism And Veganism … Nature Communications, by scientists from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and … "whether producing a certain total amount of food, in terms of protein and calories, with …
Held at Bristol Harbourside and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Europe's largest organic festival is a feast of food, drink and fabric that doesn't cost the earth
… Organic food comes of age at Bristol's Organic Food Festival Eifion Rees | 26th August 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Food And Drink Organic Soil Association Phil …
The way food is produced has a profound impact on its nutritional profile, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Not only is organic farming better for animal welfare, the environment and wildlife, writes Peter Melchett, but organic meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables all have tangible health benefits for the people who eat them.
… Organic food is well worth paying for - for your … Soil Association | 4th March 2016 News Food Farming Regulation Organic UK Health organic-boxes-cut.jpg The way food is produced has a profound impact on its …
PHOTO GALLERY: A pocket-sized book highlights some of the super-sized problems associated with the way we feed ourselves
… 12 shocking facts about your food Eifion Rees | 7th September 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Food Drink Little Book Of Shocking Food Facts Livestock Farming Fish Gallery …
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
… Peter Melchett | 8th January 2015 News Food Farming GMOs Health Climate Change … demoted from the "future for all farming and food" that was heralded in the 1990s. Under … the English Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is happy to forget that …
Almost all our food is grown in soil, writes Peter Melchett. Yet we are treating it like dirt: spraying it with toxic chemicals, depleting vital nutrients, and releasing its carbon to add to climate change. With World Soils Day coming up tomorrow, let's change our ways - and renew our commitment to organic food and farming.
… Peter Melchett | 4th December 2015 Comment Food Farming Organic Natural World Health … Change pd soil 1-cut.jpg Almost all our food is grown in soil, writes Peter Melchett. … ways - and renew our commitment to organic food and farming. "The health of soil, plant, …
The government’s consultation on future farming policy in England ended last week. Many see it as a unique opportunity to make some positive changes - not least in the provision of information about differences in quality and production systems, says PETER MELCHETT of the Soil Association
… May 2018 Comment DEFRA Health And Harmony Food And Farming Brexit … show superior quality compared to other food. We accept that there are clear … so with our largest manufacturing industry: food and farming. Championing quality …
The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by positioning itself as the voice of reason and progress, while painting its opponents as unsophisticated 'anti-science' luddites. In a scathing response Peter Melchett turns the tables
… Peter Melchett | 31st December 2012 News Gm Food And Farming News Science gmo.jpg The … the views of citizens, and most sales of GM food have relied on secrecy - denying … or citizens concerned about the safety of the food they eat. Scientists who are critical of …
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
… News Investigations Science And Technology Food And Farming Crops Korea Madagascar … Kenya Breabasket Foreign Agriculture Africa Food Production Food China Neo-colonial Laos Saudi Arabia …
Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is already big in the UK and Scandinavia, and now aiming to crack the US. Co-founder Alison Lindley discusses the difficulties of keeping it green during a period of meteoric growth
… Alison Lindley Paul Lindley Baby Children Food Banana Organic ek-logo.jpg Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is already big in … level. The company creates the kind of baby food parents wish their ankle-biters would …
Eifion Rees reports on the group bringing the heart back to supermarkets with a rooftop vegetable garden
… Eifion Rees | 26th July 2011 Activism Food And Farming Gardening Supermarkets … hopes to rectify. Growing communities The Food from the Sky community growing project is … compost tumblers full of Budgens' out of date food, purple pod beans wave in the breeze. …
Following scientific confirmation of the severe hazards to health caused by residues of glyphosate weed killers in food, the Soil Association is calling on bakers and retailers to stop 'pre-harvest' spraying on arable crops. The SA's Peter Melchett just sent out this letter - adapt as necessary and send to retailers, bakers, makers of cereals, pasta, biscuits and others.
… Keep glyphosate out of our food! Peter Melchett | 3rd September 2015 Activism Food Farming Health Corporations … by residues of glyphosate weed killers in food, the Soil Association is calling on …
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!
… Association | 23rd March 2017 Comment Farming Food Organic Pesticides Health Water … a fair and environmentally sustainable food system. The authors note that organic … levels of beneficial nutrients in organic food, as well as to the absence of pesticides …
BASF are to halve their GM research and development and reduce the time spent on developing these technologies, writes Peter Melchett. Given the many problems that GM agriculture is facing, and that new non-GE technologies offer such valuable benefits as increased crop yields, does BASF's announcement spell the beginning of the end of GM crops?
… The demise of GM and the new future of food Peter Melchett | 8th March 2016 News Gm … in the largest global consumer market for GM food, the USA, where the non-GMO label is the … grocery label in supermarkets, and some big food manufacturers, along with Chipotle, are …
Strapped for garden space needn't mean being strapped for home-grown veg, as an experienced London balcony gardener reveals
… | 9th March 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Food And Farming Gardening Compost National … of us more concerned to know about where our food comes from, to save money or simply to … unused outside the nation's windows. Window food 'You don't need an allotment or garden to …
The European Parliament just voted to re-authorise glyphosate, writes Peter Melchett - but with significant restrictions on its use. So what does the vote mean for the world's biggest selling herbicide? And how come the UK's National Farmers' Union welcomed the decision as an unqualified victory?
… | 15th April 2016 Comment EU UK Farming Food Pesticides Health Politics Science … harvesting. Spraying a probable carcinogen on food crops to kill them so they can be … wheat that makes our bread, flour and other food like biscuits and cereals. In the last …
By not properly discussing agriculture at national or international climate negotiations, we are avoiding tackling not just a huge source of emissions, but also a potential carbon sink
… | 7th December 2009 Comment Climate Change Food And Farming Agriculture Soil Association … on the table for discussion at Copenhagen. Food, farming, forestry and land use change … from soils, balanced against quantity of food produced and a host of other variables, …
Organic farming has changed, but for the better, writes Soil Association head of policy and Norfolk organic farmer Peter Melchett. As never before, organic inspections are central to the delivery of environmental and animal care, and food you really can trust.
… growth Peter Melchett | 24th May 2014 Comment Food Farming Regulation Organic UK … of environmental and animal care, and food you really can trust. I've been an … started organic farming in 1975. Organic food is rightly under far greater scrutiny. …
Soil Association policy director Peter Melchett takes issue with The Land editor Simon Fairlie's characterisation of its policy towards organic yields and meat consumption
… UK Peter Melchett | 22nd April 2010 Comment Food And Farming Organic Meat … and Wales under organic Agriculture: how much food could be produced? ', Centre for … now. It has formed part of our work on school food which began in 2002, our work on hospital …
Mourning the loss of your beloved local shop? With a little help from the Community Shops Network, you can set up and run your own shop and post office...
… shops Eifion Rees | 1st June 2010 Activism Food And Farming Society Politics And … with them not only post offices, newspapers, food and drink, but also social spaces, places … A DIFFERENCE CASE STUDY: supporting local food A tireless crusader for rural …
A compost pile in a second-floor flat may not be a practical solution to dealing with your food waste, but if you don't have a garden, a homemade wormery might just be the ticket
… 2009 Ethical Living Green Living Compost Food Waste Wormery Home Composting … be a practical solution to dealing with your food waste, but if you don't have a garden, a … a pile of potato peelings into our makeshift food bin. Our council bin had disappeared a …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
… people do, which is to eat lots of rich food, including meat. Because of this huge … trade, politics, finance… Given that the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) … notoriously unwilling to stand in the way of food companies and Big Agri, how possible is …
The tale of the homemade wormery in a second-floor-flat continues... The worms are thriving, multiplying in numbers. Just don't ask about the flies...
… Composting Wormery Vermicompost Dendrobaenas Food Waste Recycling worms.jpg The worms are … back towards its home and closer to the food. Its egg sac must have become attached to … worms regulate their numbers according to the food available. Come fly with me While the …