You don't need a garden to grow your own fruit and veg. If you're a budding horticulturalist with no space to swing a trowel, here are some creative - and sometimes bizarre - ideas from around the world
How to grow food in strange places - by the experts Helen Babbs | 29th September 2010 Activism Food And Farming Farming Urban Agriculture Self-sufficiency How To Make A Difference …
Can genome editing and agroecology co-exist in the sustainable food and farming mix?
Gene editing and sustainable farming Jim Manson | 3rd August 2020 News Gene Editing Sustainability Agroecokogy Organic GMO Food And Farming Potato Can genome editing and agroecology co-exist in the …
Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the party's links with powerful right-wing US corporate interests promoting fossil fuels, denying climate change, opposing gun control, and supporting big tobacco, teaching creationism in schools, healthcare privatisation and the lifting of nuclear power regulation? An Ecologist investigation exposes the real UKIP.
UKIP uncut - acoloytes of America's far-right corporate gunslingers Alex Stevenson Oliver Tickell | 21st November 2014 News Politics UK USA Climate Change Fossil Fuels helmer-marita-noon-cut.jpg …
Graphic illustrates how just five biotech giants have increased their control of the global seed market, promoting monoculture farming and making it harder for farmers to find alternative sources of seeds
Revealed: how seed market is controlled by Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow & DuPont Tom Levitt | 7th October 2010 News Seeds Food And Farming Monsanto Bayer Syngenta Gm seedindustrygraphic.jpg How the …
Undercover footage of Portuguese rabbit farms shows the grim reality of intensive factory-style rabbit farming, which may now make a comeback in the UK
Battery rabbit farm proposals could see return of fur farming to UK Tom Levitt | 5th May 2011 News Food And Farming Fur Rabbits Fashion rabbitincage.jpg Rabbits will be kept in wire cages in …
A new film, Raising Resistance, gives a telling account of how Paraguay's small farmers are suffering social and environmental ills from the country's meteoric rise in soya farming
Paraguay's small farmers defend livelihoods against industrial soya production Grace Philip | 8th May 2012 Activism Food And Farming Raising Resistance Paraguay Soy Soy Industry Pesticides Campesinos …
Global grassroots movement, 350.org is gathering support to persuade world leaders to stop subsidising fossil fuels at the Rio Earth Summit
TAKE ACTION to help end government subsidies for dirty energy Grace Philip | 25th May 2012 Activism Climate Change Energy Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions 350.org Renewable Energy How To Make A …
The UK government will launch a global and national review into the link between biodiversity and economic growth.
The UK’s biodiversity crash Rob Percival | 15th March 2019 News Food And Farming Science & Systems soil ecology The UK government will launch a global and national review into the link between …
The huge boats - the largest of which is more than 465ft long - 'vacuum' up huge quantities of fish every day.
Ban fishing supertrawlers Michael Drummond | 18th June 2020 News Food And Farming Biodiversity Collapse Supertrawlers The huge boats - the largest of which is more than 465ft long - 'vacuum' up huge …
Between 2011 and 2016 the UK's export finance agency UKEF provided £109m to underwrite exports of equipment to coal mines in Russia, writes Lawrence Carter - despite the agency's commitment not to support 'investment in dirty fossil-fuel energy production'. And that's just a fraction of the £6.9 billion UKEF has lavished on the corrupt, polluting sector since 2000, while it was meant to be backing the clean energy technologies of the future.
Leaked: UK £7 billion export credit for fossil fuel industry violates 'clean energy' pledge Lawrence Carter Greenpeace Energydesk | 16th May 2017 News Finance Politics Fossil Fuels Climate Change UK …
Defra urged to stop 'downplaying' the problem and ban 'unacceptable' advertising of antibiotics to farmers
E.coli and salmonella resistance 'spreading' due to antibiotics overuse Tom Levitt | 23rd September 2010 News Food And Farming Drugs Antibiotics Health cow.jpg The use of important human antibiotic …
The UK is highly dependent on Spain and the Netherlands for the majority of its fresh vegetable imports.
Pandemic exposes UK food dependency Emily Beament | 5th June 2020 News Coronavirus Covid-19 Food And Farming Nature Food organic-tomatoes-cut.jpg The UK is highly dependent on Spain and the …
Try some of the UK's best cuisine, learn from top chefs and debate the future of our food at this annual gathering of food greats in London's Earls Court
Expose your taste buds to the Real Food Festival Laura Sevier | 4th May 2010 Ethical Living Food And Farming Society Green Living Real Food Festival Laverstoke Park Farm Konstam Tregothnan South …
China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.
China coal stokes climate fire Simon Pirani | 22nd January 2021 | Comment Climate Breakdown Coal Fossil Fuels China Editor’s Picks Coal in China China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery …
As negotiators from around the world gather in Paris for what's hoped to be a groundbreaking climate summit, many will be surprised to discover that COP21 is funded by some of the world's biggest coal burners, writes Pavlos Georgiadis, and a leading financier of coal and tar sands development. Shouldn't we just ... kick them out?
COP21 - brought to you by 200 Mt a year of coal-fired CO2 Pavlos Georgiadis | 26th November 2015 Comment Climate Change Corporations COP21 Unfccc Finance Fossil Fuels cop21-logos.png As negotiators …
Unlike tea and sugar, the fresh milk we drink with our cuppa is likely to come from farms in the UK. But as Tom Levitt reports, there are still serious environmental and animal welfare problems associated with the UK dairy sector
Milk: why the white stuff leaves a bad taste in the mouth Tom Levitt | 13th April 2011 News Milk Dairy Food And Farming organicmilk.jpg Modern dairy farming has become increasingly removed from the …
As Slow Food Week gets underway Slow Food UK tells the Ecologist why they are attempting to protect Britains edible Biodiversity and the artisan producers behind it.....
Eat it or Lose it: promoting and preserving real British food Cat Gazzoli | 31st May 2013 Ethical Living Health Food And Farming sfuk-ff (1).jpg As Slow Food Week gets underway Slow Food UK tells the …
A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into millions of UK homes is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry.
Hydrogen homes is a terrible idea Simon Pirani | 3rd November 2020 | Comment Climate Breakdown Fossil Fuels Hydrogen Editor’s Picks Insulation A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into …
A growing number of farmers are now questioning the nature of the cull and its effectiveness. And some are blaming poor biosecurity and intensive farming for the spread of TB in the UK cattle herd. Andrew Wasley and Sarah Stirk report
Badger cull a PR disaster for UK countryside, warn 'dissident' farmers Andrew Wasley Sarah Stirk | 18th June 2013 News News Food And Farming Badgers Milk Dairy Animal Health Investigation dave gill …
Big may look impressive, but life can be hell for the individual in agriculture today. The problems are vast and complex, and do not lend themselves to easy answers. So what is the agricultural crisis all about, and what can be done to tackle it? Steven Gorelick seeks out the true root of the crisis.
Facing the farm crisis Steven Gorelick | 5th June 2000 News Agriculture Farming Crisis Agribusiness Factory Farming Small Farms Independent Business Economics Monoculture Farming Factory Farming …
North America's environment campaigners face a fearsome enemy in the 'Big Club', writes Alexander Reid Ross - the nexus of fossil fuel and infrastructure corporations, government, militarized police, private security contractors, PR agencies, astroturf NGOs and quasi-judicial bodies. But the activists are winning key victories in their battle to halt the industrialization of Cascadia.
Fighting the 'Big Club': blockades, strikes, and the fossil fuel blowback Alexander Reid Ross | 2nd February 2015 News Oil Gas Fossil Fuels Energy Politics War USA Canada free-cascadia-cut.jpg North …