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 …
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 Dominican Republic's organic and Fairtrade boom has helped banana growers but what about the slum-dwelling Haitian migrant workers? Tom Levitt reports on the plight of the forgotten people in the banana trade
… 2012 News Fairtrade Bananas Organic Food And Farming Dominican Republic News Focus top … Fairtrade. The principles of organic farming insist on fairness to all workers, …
Pastoralism is in crisis across Africa. But it could yet survive as the best available defence against climate change and famine. Tom Levitt reports from southern Ethiopia
… Pastoralist Borana News Focus Food And Farming ethiopia7.jpg Children in pastoralist … new system is one based on irrigation, crop farming and large-scale plantation projects - … livelihoods in favour of settled crop farming. But according to Human Rights Watch , …
Lab-grown meat could help reduce the environmental footprint of intensive farming. But will it ever appeal to vegetarians or even more eco-conscious consumers? Tom Levitt reports
… Tom Levitt | 3rd October 2012 News Vegetarian Farming Food Meat meat.jpg Lab-grown meat … the environmental footprint of intensive farming. But will it ever appeal to … and freelancer writer on food and farming issues. You can follow him at …
A new study suggests an alarming link between low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides - the most widely used insecticides in the world - and long-term brain damage. Tom Levitt reports
… promoted a new chemical-dependent era of farming. However, with growing reports of … claims from affected farmers. Former farming minister Lord Rooker confirmed as much … Tom Levitt is a freelancer writer on food and farming issues. You can follow him on twitter …
The West is exporting diabetes and heart disease to poor countries, along with the processed foods that line the shelves of global supermarkets warns UN advisor Olivier De Schutter
… Obesity Health Society Diet Food And Farming obesogens2.jpg Traditional healthy …
Theologian Martin Palmer tells Tom Levitt how we can learn from previous man-made ecological collapses in Britain and create a 'new narrative' that challenges our dominant consumer culture
Humanity has already had four major ecological collapses: how can we avoid a fifth? Tom Levitt | 27th February 2012 News Ecology Climate Change Natural World Population Sustainability stonhenge.jpg …