In 1996 there were no farmers’ markets anywhere in the UK. Today they outnumber Asda stores. Dan Box celebrates their comeback and why we should all be using them.
… Farmers Markets Dan Box | 1st June 2003 … Society Archive_38.jpg In 1996 there were no farmers’ markets anywhere in the UK. Today … advertising to entice us into their stores, farmers’ markets rely on the quality of the …
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… hastily assembled force of lorry drivers and farmers arrived at the gates of Shell’s … the entrance to the plant. Protestors, led by farmers from St Asaph in North Wales, climbed … struggle, before clearing the road. The farmers were furious at the high prices they …
As the worst drought in 100 years makes its effects felt in the southern hemisphere, Dan Box asks whether the Australian interior is becoming a terra nullius – a genuine no-man’s-land
… This too is a gamble, but then that is how farmers have always dealt with drought in … into cattle droving. He bought land from farmers who had failed, and strung his … farmed. As the Aborigines did not seem to be farmers, they could rightly be ignored. …
With a new coalition government the opportunities for fresh thinking about managing the UK countryside are vast, reports Dan Box. And the Stiperstones nature reserve is providing plenty of inspiration...
… government stewardship subsidies paid to farmers for managing their land to favour the … also want to reduce the regulatory burden on farmers, and are therefore likely to reject …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… million. They are mostly shepherds and oasis farmers isolated in the few belts of fertile …
The lack of agreement at Copenhagen has left some thinking that the only way to protect national economies is to tax imports from nations who don't pay a carbon price...
… didn't, and that's a bad sign INVESTIGATION Farmers' markets, coops and repair shops will …