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.
Post-Brexit farming policy risks being ‘missed opportunity’, SFT warns
The UK Government’s new Agriculture Bill will be a “missed opportunity” if it fails to a incentivise farmers to switch to sustainable farming practices.
Alternative Oxford farming conference is where the ‘Real’ action is now
Michael Wale reports here on some of the most hotly contested topics at this year’s ‘alternative’ Oxford Real Farming Conference
ORC at 40: Challenging times for organic, but we can be ‘driving force’
As it begins its 40th year, the Organic Research Centre (ORC) – the UK’s leading independent organic research body – has move to new premises.
All farming is a ‘radical simplification’ of nature, Monbiot tells SFT boss
All types of farming, including ‘regenerative’ systems like organic, are a “radical simplification" of nature, says the environmentalist and Guardian columnist.
May 3, 2022