A solution to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving deforestation in Argentina and Brazil, could be found by incentivising home-grown alternatives
… UK could cut Amazon soya imports with home-grown peas and beans … to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving … The UK could cut its dependency on imported soya in half by encouraging farmers to switch …
Targets for increasing the use of biofuels to power cars, trains and buses will result in more ecosystems being converted to agriculture - actually increasing carbon emissions, says new report
… READ MORE... COMMENT Forget palm oil and soya, microalgae is the next big biofuel …
The world's demand for protein will continue to rise, even as the environmental impacts of meat production become clearer. Could turning to commonly eaten insect species be the answer?
… are often the result NEWS UK could cut Amazon soya imports with home-grown peas and beans A … to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving …
Renewed calls for a tax on less nutritious foods do not take account of the importance of issues like education, advertising and social justice say campaigners
… 'cheap calorie' crops like wheat, corn, soya and rice over fruit and vegetables. He …
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different. Andrew Wasley reports
… from crops including jatropha, palm oil, soya and sugar cane, to rising food prices and …
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different
… from crops including jatropha, palm oil, soya and sugar cane, to rising food prices and …
In this month's newsletter we ask lots of timely questions: Just what is the UN's Codex Alimentarius and what does it mean for our food and health? Can consuming insects really provide a solution to the world's meat problems? Have the ecological impacts of solar power technologies been overlooked in our rush to embrace this 'green' solution? We also hear about the new generation of eco-friendly taxis and get the low-down on the newest book on the block dealing with eco-homes... To access this exclusive content, log in and scroll down to the bottom of the page
… sources of vegetable protein sustainably (soya monocultures notwithstanding) and we …
'Risky and secretive' gambling on the price of coffee, cocoa and wheat is leading to unstable food prices and exacerbating poverty and malnutrition but creating billions of pounds for the banking sector
… is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals …
A new vision to replace our grazing land with energy crops will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many are unwilling to embrace its suggestions for our future diet and countryside
… on imported animal feed, which in the case of soya from Brazil may be contributing towards …
Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, reports Tom Levitt
… alternative to palm oil but that might be soya and then the problem is exported to the …
Plans for US-style mega-dairy farms in the UK are being heralded for their potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but scaling up may create as many problems as it attempts to solve reports Tom Levitt
… additional requirements from Europe and not soya linked to deforestation in South America …
The technology isn't fully developed yet, but when meat really can be grown in a lab it's going to turn all our arguments about carnivorous diets on their heads...
… is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals …
Dismissed initially as a good storyteller but nothing more, environmental historian Poul Holm has mapped the history of marine animals in such detail that it is having profound impacts on our current understanding of the oceans
… is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals …
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business...
… is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals …