From Raising Chickens To Growing Mushrooms: Here’s How Livestock Farmers Can Make The Sustainable Leap
Scientists and climate activists have called for an urgent transition to a more sustainable food system. The future food system envisioned is one without animal agriculture, the industry that drives…
‘Overlooked’ Agriculture Emissions Linked to Serious Health and Financial Risks, Study Finds
New research connects rural agricultural emissions including ammonia, nitrous oxide, and nitrogen oxides to urban pollution issues. The new research, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, looked at…
NYR hosts bee symposium, launching next phase of campaign
Three months after delivering an open letter to Boris Johnson, calling for urgent reversal of the Government’s decision to lift the ban on harmful neonicotinoids, the next move in Anabel…
Cutting Air Pollution In Half Could See 25% More Food Produced In China, New Study Finds
New research from Science Advances suggests that halving air pollution could see an extra 25 percent of food generated in China every year. Particular attention was paid to a pollutant…
How UK can quit its ‘addiction to volatile food imports’ – SFT
The Sustainable Food Trust (SFT) says it’s time to change the way we farm, ‘align our diets to what the UK can sustainably produce’ and reduce our ‘addiction to volatile…
IFOAM Organics Europe calls on Member States to amend their CAP Strategic Plans
IFOAM Organics Europe hace un llamamiento a los Estados miembros para que modifiquen sus Planes Estratégicos de la PAC de acuerdo con las observaciones realizadas por la Comisión en sus…
Industry reacts to Government White Paper on National Food Strategy
The Government’s response to the National Food Strategy (NFS) review, which has today been published by Defra as a White Paper, has been described by the Soil Association (SA) as…
Spanish lessons
A new law in Spain prohibiting sale of food below the cost of production has potential lessons for all of us, says Simon Wright.
ROA rising: Natures’s Path family farm largest to gain Regenerative Organic Certification
Nature’s Path Founder Arran Stephens this week said he was proud to announce that his family’s Legend Organic Farm is the largest organic farm in the world to obtain Regenerative…
Cheers to that: Quality and health factors behind organic wine’s success story
Hall 7 at this week’s Biofach trade show on Nuremberg, will showcase some of the very best examples of the organic wine-maker’s craft.
May 3, 2022