Peter Rosset argues for small farms in the North...and Vandana Shiva champions those in the South
… Small scale farming: A global perspective Peter Rosset … | 3rd June 2000 News Local Food Production Farming Rural Communities Farmers' Markets Productivity Efficiency Agriculture Farming Campaigns Green Lifestyle Community …
Everyone loves family farming! And so they should, writes Holly Creighton-Hird, as family farms produce most of the world's food. But the UK Government has a funny way of showing it - favouring corporate agriculture and eliminating farm payments for small land holdings. It's up to us, the public, to support small, high welfare producers.
… The future of family farming is in our hands Holly Creighton-Hird | 19th October 2014 Activism Farming UK Society … Everyone loves family farming! And so they should, writes Holly … support small, high welfare producers. Family farming is a hot topic this year. The Food and …
Below-par farm biosecurity should block farmers from participating in England's badger culls, writes Anna Dale. But a large body of evidence of poor and negligent biosecurity by farmers suggests that Natural England, the government's official regulator, is turning a blind eye to this strict requirement - and undermining the purpose of the cull.
… Anna Dale | 29th March 2017 Activism Badgers Farming Regulation UK England Health Science …
Teacher Jamie Feilden came up with the idea of bringing at-risk students to his family's Somerset farm for a week in 2004. Six years on and the results are breathtaking...
… Hickman | 30th April 2010 Activism Food And Farming Society Jamie's Farm National Care … term impact it has on the children. Care farming Ruth is not alone in recognising the … Britain who are members of The National Care Farming Initiative (NCFI). The NCFI began in …
The sale process of the UK's Co-op Group of its entire 70,000 acre farm estate systematically blocked community and cooperative bidders. Not a single such bid was received by the deadline.
… farm sale The Ecologist | 9th July 2014 News Farming Commons Society UK coop-4-sale.png The … to small scale, diverse, community engaged farming, fruit growing and market gardening." …
Steven Gorelick lays out just a few of the policy changes, priority shifts and new approaches that could help save rural life, and lead to more sustainable farming
… Solutions for a farming future Steven Gorelick | 7th June 2000 News Farming Agriculture Food Miles Food … Small Buusinesses Farmers' Markets Organic FarmingFarming Agribusiness Fair Trade …
Shrimp has always been associated with the small and the puny. Why then is this seemingly harmless crustacean inspiring angry protests throughout the developing world, and why have so many people died as a result? Dr Mike Shanahan investigates
… Dr Mike Shanahan | 20th March 2001 News Prawn Farming Social Damage Environmental Damage Coastal Factory Farming Food And Farming Society Investigates_38.jpg Shrimp has …
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 …
When people take part in the seasonal and cyclical activites of growth they are more able to put things into perspective - to make decisions that are governed by life-sustaining principles over and above financial incentive
… FARMING MATTERS RACHEL FRANCIS | 1st September 2005 Comment Farm FarmingFarming Green Living Society Archive_41.jpg …
A new study by scientists at the University of Michigan in the US suggests that on farms in industrialised countries, organic farming can produce comparable yields to those achieved by conventional farming.
… Organic farming CAN feed the world 17th July 2007 News Organic Organics Farming Agriculture Pesticides Fertilisers Intensive Agriculture Farming Organics Food And Farming Society News …
What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome food, writes Colin Tudge, while supporting a flourishing rural economy and a sustainable, biodiverse countryside. Yet the powers that be, determined to advance industrial agriculture at all costs, are achieving the precise opposite. It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large.
… Colin Tudge | 22nd April 2016 Comment Farming Food Economics Corporations Society … GMOs tractor-cut.jpg What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome … It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large. …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… the corporate stranglehold on food and farming - is agroecology enough? Colin Todhunter | 4th March 2016 Comment Food Farming Corporations The Land India USA Mexico … is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… Large | 23rd August 2014 Ethical Living Food Farming Society Health Wellbeing UK Organic … afar the opportunity to invest in a community farming future for children's well being, health, food security, family farming and a living, working countryside. …
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
… Stirk | 18th June 2013 News News Food And Farming Badgers Milk Dairy Animal Health … are blaming poor biosecurity and intensive farming for the spread of TB in the UK cattle … with high powered rifles', the government and farming bodies should urgently be looking …
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 …
For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, Sheelu Francis told Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
… | 29th September 2015 Comment Food Farming India Ecology Society Corporations … organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, … agroecology - which they also call 'natural farming' or 'zero budget' farming - to address …
Published in Nature today, a new cattle herd model shows how bTB infects cattle and how to halt its spread, writes Matt Keeling. Most effective is the slaughter of entire herds with even a single TB infection detected. Culling badgers has very little impact.
… Keeling | 3rd July 2014 News Badgers Health Farming UK Science btb-graph-cut.jpg Published …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
… Labour Kenya Toxic Chemicals Agriculture Farming Water Waste Wages Labour Unions Holland Consumerism Agribusiness Farming Carbon Dioxide Human Rights Pesticides … needs can be justified over those of food farming. Water conflicts between flower …
The history of humankind might also be said to be the history of warfare. From Roman times to the present day, human conflict has been the hallmark of our historical progression. But the fight against ourselves isn’t the only war we’ve embarked upon.
… | 26th November 2008 Reviews Bugs Book Review Farming Pesticides Farming Agribusiness Food And Farming Health Pollution Society …
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
… Sevier | 4th May 2010 Ethical Living Food And Farming Society Green Living Real Food …
As the bluetongue virus sinks its teeth into British livestock, there is one appalling certainty: like the outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease and foot-and-mouth before it, some farmers will see no way out, and take their own lives. Farmers in Britain are the profession second most likely to commit suicide (after, bizarrely, dentistry).
… Farming despair Raj Patel | 1st November 2007 … Suicides Poverty Debt World Bank Agriculture Farming Agribusiness Farming Urban Farming Famine Local Food …
Palestinian children as young as 11 work on Israeli farms in the occupied West Bank, an HRW investigation reveals. While the EU buys produce worth $300m a year from the illegal 'settlements', undocumented child labourers are exposed to pesticides, paid well below the minimum wage, enjoy no employment rights, and toil long hours in hot fields and greenhouses.
… Ecologist | 29th April 2015 News Middle East Farming Corporations Lasnd Grabs Society …
Globally over 60 billion animals are farmed for food every year. The 2006 Report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), “Livestock’s Long Shadow”, predicted that global meat consumption will more than double by 2050 (from 2001).
… D'Silva | 19th August 2008 News Chickens Farming Poultry Industry Meat Animal Welfare Factory FarmingFarming Food Security Food And Farming Society …
The government may want to press ahead with the English badger cull, writes Lesley Docksey. But after the Brexit vote it may just cost too much - for taxpayers and for the farmers who bear part an increasing share of the expense, now facing the loss of the 55% of their income that currently comes from Brussels.
… Docksey | 27th July 2016 Comment Badgers Farming Brexit Politics Natural World Finance … continue? Some 55% of the UK's income from farming comes from the EU via the Common … When faced with the possibility that British farming might be destroyed by the way FMD was …