The campaigner behind the groundbreaking Pig Business documentary is now taking her message global, encouraging people to take action against industrial farming methods which degrade the environment and subject animals to a life of misery
… film to square up to the horrors of factory farming Tracy Worcester | 18th October 2012 News Food And Farming Comment Factory Farming Pig Business pigbusiness.jpg The …
Christine McFadden's new book is a timely celebration of British farm shops
Farm Shop Cookbook highlights the best of British food Matilda Lee | 25th June 2009 Ethical Living Green Living Food And Drink Farm Shops Seasonal walnuttart.jpg Christine McFadden's new book is a …
Debate over role of farm animals in spreading of superbugs intensifies, as scientific study downplaying fears is accused of serious flaws. Tom Levitt reports
… Tom Levitt | 31st January 2012 News Food And Farming Antibiotics Factory Farming Health antibiotc.jpg Medical experts … to restrict the use of antimicrobials in farming - a direct challenge to EU …
Inside vast, 360-sided, 7000 cubic metre underwater cages off the coast of Panama, marine biologist Brian O'Hanlon is trying to solve some of the problems with large-scale aquaculture
… Is this the future of fish farming? Edward Helmore | 20th October 2009 News Food And Farming Fish Fish Farming Fish Special Aquaculture …
Another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates
… a pig Jim Wickens | 26th March 2009 News Pig Farming MRSA Hospital-acquired Infection Tetracycline Intensive Farming Factory Farms Antibiotic Resistance Netherlands Factory Farming Animal Husbandry Risk Food And Farming …
The wind farms debate rages on as the need for renewable energy grows. But is the UK in danger of putting aesthetics before the need to cut carbon emissions and adopt greener technologies?
Wind turbines: the future of renewable energy or a blight on UK countryside? Bethany Hubbard | 24th February 2012 News Wind Farms Energy Turbines Scotland Donald Trump Climate Change Society …
Jordans cereals founder Bill Jordan says his company's method of farming can feed the world and safeguard biodiversity
… | 1st December 2009 Comment Organic Food And Farming billjordan1.jpg Bill Jordan is sceptical of organic farming's ability to feed the world Jordans … Bill Jordan says his company's method of farming can feed the world and safeguard …
Despite being an economic success, prawn farms built in Brazil's mangroves have displaced natural ecosystems and the coastal communities which rely on them, says Kennedy Warne in an exclusive extract from 'Let Them Eat Shrimp'
… Violence and pollution stain Brazil's shrimp farming boom Kennedy Warne | 17th February … 2012 News Shrimp Farms Prawn Farms Food And Farming Aquaculture Investigations … flats and mangroves. Indisputably, shrimp farming in Brazil has been an economic …
Nearly 50% of the EU budget goes into European agriculture. But climate change, soil erosion and other environmental pressures call for radical changes in farming practices. Carolyn Lebel reports on the urgent need for greener subsidies.
… reforms be enough to encourage greener farming? Carolyn Lebel | 15th October 2012 … pressures call for radical changes in farming practices. Carolyn Lebel reports on … what we call the environment, and intensive farming practices spurred by the CAP have …
Most mass-produced pudding wouldn't know real, healthy, organic ingredients if it saw them. Laura Sevier meets the Finlays, who are putting the 'nice' back into ice cream
… Living Food Ice Cream Organics Organic Farming Organics Farming Food And Farming Mango and banana smoothie1111.jpg Most …
The Kindai tuna, bred by scientists at Kinki University, may lead the way for future large-scale tuna farms. Tom Edathikunnel investigates whether the idea really is preferable to overfishing
… Farm Kinki University Osaka Japan Food And Farming Fish Natural World Disease Health Factory Farming tuna.jpg The Kindai tuna, bred by … tuna are now investigating aquaculture (fish farming) as a viable alternative to …
Salmon farming is renowned for its local environmental pollution, but now some fish farmers are starting to look at fish waste as an untapped resource
… Can salmon farming be sustainable? Emma Bocking | 20th October 2009 News Food And Farming Pollution Fish Fish Farming Fish Special Salmon imtaweb.jpg Salmon …
Our growing demand for cheap feed to produce cheap meat is exacting a terrible human and environmental price. But the solutions are clear, and are within our reach
… | 13th October 2009 Comment Food And Farming Soya Gm Agriculture Friends Of The … demand is growing fast. In the UK, factory farming is almost wholly dependent on the … £700 million each year to fund the factory farming system through agricultural subsidies, …
Tracy Worcester's film <i>Pig Business</i> exposes the abuses of factory farming and challenges consumers to make a stand. Phil Moore meets a woman on a mission.
… Film Video Smithfield Phil Moore Factory Farming Food And Farming Its-a-pigs-life_MAIN.jpg Tracy … Business</i> exposes the abuses of factory farming and challenges consumers to make a …
‘“Visionary” is a terrible word to use,’ Jimmie Hepburn grimaces. ‘I’m not doing this for my own ego. I’m happy for contributions and new ideas; I’m starting from scratch here, but I want people to build upon this.’
… The Ecologist | 1st April 2009 News Food And Farming Water Agriculture Fish Farms Farm Farming Visionaries … out in life working on an industrial salmon-farming operation in northwest Scotland. …
Government orders to use dangerous organophosphate chemicals left hundreds of sheep farmers with debilitating ill health, Tom Levitt reports on the UK's forgotten pesticide tragedy
… Ghosts of farming: Britain's forgotten sheep farmers … | 28th March 2012 News Pesticide OP Chemical Farming Sheep Food And Farming Health Sheep Dip News Focus …
The thing is, I like urban farming. Rooftop gardens and window boxes excite me. Balconies filled with beans and tomatoes give me hope. Nonetheless, the ‘next big thing’ in urban horticulture has left me cold.
… Jim Thomas | 2nd April 2009 Comment Urban Farming Farmscrapers Third Green Revolution Dickson Despommier Urban Farming Urban Farming Climate Change Food And Farming …
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
… December 2009 Comment Climate Change Food And Farming Agriculture Soil Association Soil … the table for discussion at Copenhagen. Food, farming, forestry and land use change are … pork, chicken, beef and dairy products. Yet farming hardly features in national or …
Our oceans are suffering from chronic overfishing - but are fish farms any better for the environment? Matilda Lee weighs up the piscine pros and cons in the battle to save world stocks from collapse.
… Driftnets Fishing Crisis Campaigns Food And Farming Fish_DecJan_09_MAIN.jpg Our oceans are … that also uses less fuel’. Presumably, then, farming fish is part of the answer to help … to Brian Halweil of Worldwatch. In Asia, fish-farming has been practised for thousands of …
A new investigation has revealed appalling labour conditions for Burmese migrants working onboard boats supplying 'trash fish' for use in feed given to farmed prawns. But this is just the latest scandal to engulf the global shrimp industry, says Andrew Wasley
… October 2012 News News Shrimp Prawns Food And Farming Ecologist Film Unit Seafood Fish … a huge expansion in aquaculture – and prawn farming in particular – in the coastal regions … had been killed in clashes relating to prawn farming. People like Zaheda Begum, leader of a …
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
… March 2012 News Forests Agroforestry Food And Farming Investigations … that our tolerance for mixing trees with farming is not what it once was. Of course, … who champion the role of the tree in the farming landscape. Agroforestry has seen …
Tigers breed well in captivity, so why not just farm them behind bars to satisfy those with a taste for tiger bone wine? Debbie Banks from the Environmental Investigation Agency explains why relaxing the rules would be a disaster
… is that since tigers breed well in captivity, farming them is an economical solution to …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
… Wasley | 13th October 2009 News Food And Farming Genetic Modification Soya Meat … up in Paraguay's growing conflict over soy farming and reveals, for the first time, how intensive animal farming across the EU, including the UK, is …
Monty Waldin's thirst for good wines leads him to visit a biodynamic farm. More than just a load of bull, he finds, making rich, complex wines requires quality cow manure
… 2nd March 2009 Ethical Living Wine Biodynamic Farming Biodynamic Biotechnology Farming Green Living biodynamicwineii.jpg … major signs of fatigue from over intensive farming. They asked Austrian scientist Rudolf …