Is it possible to live off foraged food alone? Fergus Drennan thinks so and aims to prove it. In the first of his monthly columns he explains why, from April 1 st, he will be eating nothing but wild food – for an entire year...
… Fergus Drennan | 1st April 2008 News Foraging Subsistence Awakening Philosophy Foraging Farming Local Food Production … nothing but wild food – for an entire year... Foraging – what’s all the fuss about? What …
Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food sources rather than pesticides or disease seen as biggest threat to honey bees
Loss of forage biggest long-term threat to bees The Ecologist | 8th January 2010 News Honey Bees Bees Food And Farming Pesticides bees.jpg Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food …
Continuing high winter losses in bee colonies is prompting fears about future of hobby beekeeping
… on disease, bad weather and poor quality of foraging due to habitat loss Continuing high … disease, bad weather and poor quality of foraging due to habitat loss for the continued … a harsh winter and bad summer last year, poor foraging and the 'devastating' affect of the …
Beekeepers in US blame weather and starvation for another winter of heavy colony losses, which is likely to lead to rises in the cost of pollination
Heavy bee colony losses in US could lead to price rise The Ecologist | 4th May 2010 News Natural World Food And Farming Bees CCD bees.jpg Observers say the current losses being suffered by honey bee …
Nine new studies will look at the role of pesticides, habitat loss and disease in the decline of insect pollinators like the honeybee and bumblebee
Why are bees in decline? New research to provide the answers The Ecologist | 22nd June 2010 News Bees Pollination Food And Farming Honeybees Insects Biodiversity bumblebee.jpg Research will look at …
Widespread use of insecticides affecting bee populations but also causing decline in numbers of birds, butterflies and moths, warns Dutch toxicologist
Controversial pesticides linked to 'total ecological collapse' of insects and birds Dearbhla Crosse Tom Levitt | 16th November 2010 News Pesticides Bees Birds Ecology Natural World Food And Farming …
Beekeepers' group ends commercial relationship with pesticide manufacturer whose product killed bees
British Beekeepers' Association to stop endorsing bee-killing pesticides Alison Benjamin guardian society editor | 17th November 2010 News Bees Food And Farming Pesticides Chemicals beekeeper.jpg The …
Previous calls to ban neonicotinoids have been turned down by the UK government because of lack of evidence
Renewed call for pesticide ban to protect bees The Ecologist | 14th September 2009 News Bees Pesticides Neonicotinoids Food And Farming Natural World beequeen,-nz,-dave-goulson.jpg Conservationists …
A solution to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving deforestation in Argentina and Brazil, could be found by incentivising home-grown alternatives
UK could cut Amazon soya imports with home-grown peas and beans The Ecologist | 21st July 2010 News Food And Farming Deforestation Amazon Soy Livestock beanpea.jpg Protein crops grown in the UK such …
Cape gannet chicks are facing starvation as a result of overfishing of sardines and anchovies off the coast of southern Africa, as well as an increase in predation by other species affected by the food shortage
… placed on fishing numbers within the bird's foraging range if the Cape gannet is to …
Earlier this week, the Trussel Trust reported the number of UK families using food banks has tripled in the last year and increased a staggering FIVE FOLD since the coalition came to power. Paul Creeney asks the big question ...
… I saw two men standing on a pile of ice foraging for food in a dumpster behind the …
The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
Feed the world? Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher Antje Lorch | 1st November 2008 News Gm Focus Yields Yield Gm Crops Cultivation Biotechnology Food And Farming Science And Technology GM_Yield_MAIN.jpg The …
The recent EAT-Lancet report has garnered mixed responses so far but here are the five things you need to know about the 'healthy reference diet'.
‘Healthy reference diet’ - what you need to know Joanna Lewis | 30th January 2019 News Food And Farming Thought Leaders biofood.jpg The recent EAT-Lancet report has garnered mixed responses so far …
Gardeners across Britain are being asked to earn their stripes by joining the Great British Bee Count and help our threatened pollinators. Bees are good for flowers - and also support our farmers, argues EMI MURPHY of Friends of the Earth
Join the Great British Bee Count and help our threatened pollinators Emi Murphy | 6th June 2018 News Bees Gardens Food And Farming Friends Of The Earth dsc_8571.jpg Gardeners across Britain are being …
Does the UK Government's Clean Air Strategy go far enough in tackling 'runaway ammonia emissions'?
Ammonia: the ‘poor cousin’ of air pollution Marianne Brooker | 15th January 2019 News Slurry Ammonia Pollution Food And Farming Clean Air Strategy Change Makers …
A new vision to replace our grazing land with energy crops will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many are unwilling to embrace its suggestions for our future diet and countryside
Biomass Britain: do fields of energy crops spell an end to grazing livestock? Tom Levitt | 13th July 2010 News Biomass Renewables Food And Farming Energy biomasscrops.jpg Britain's fields of …
Our excessive appetite for meat is taking a heavy toll on the planet, but as Simon Fairlie explains, the arguments used to depict omnivores as environmental super-villains are far too simplistic.
A meaty issue Simon Fairlie | 1st October 2008 News Meat Environmentalism Sustainable Food Agriculture Livestock Cows Farming Agribusiness Animal Husbandry Factory Farming Food And Farming …
Our food system needs immediate and radical reform if we are to feed the world without irreparably damaging our global resource base.
Feeding the world without destroying it: Part 1 Ele Saltmarsh | 23rd June 2020 News Extinction Rebellion Science Agriculture Systems Agroecology Food And Farming 29289255997_8cfd0365ac_k.jpg Our food …
Free-Range Dairy is a new initiative that could reverse the trend towards industrialised mega-farms.
Is There Grass In That Milk? Lorna Howarth | 24th May 2013 News Food And Farming Health shutterstock_76747288.jpg In a recent survey of 600 farmers, 95% were in favour of cows having at least …
The practical evidence suggests agroforestry in the UK has got something to offer both commercial farmers and smallholders alike. The challenge now, says Ed Hamer, is how to encourage sceptical farmers that planting trees across farmland is a good idea
Agroforestry comes of age, but will UK farmers embrace it? Ed Hamer | 2nd March 2012 News Forests Agroforestry Food And Farming Investigations istock_000002151884large.jpg The practical evidence …