Biodynamic farming: healing the world through agriculture
The Biodynamic Federation – Demeter International is launching a new film campaign which articulates the true values of biodynamic farming. Human development and care for nature are at the heart…
Organic Trade Association welcomes Sustainable Food Trade Association in 2021
New consolidation strengthens organic’s mission to build sustainable food system and fight climate change The Organic Trade Association announced the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA) has consolidated with the Organic…
Carbon management expert to advise Organic Trade Association sustainability council
The Organic Trade Association is pleased to announce that carbon management and sustainability expert Lisa Braun is joining the trade association as the Sustainability Technical Services Manager for the trade…
Stamp out plastic sample sachets experts urge in open letter
Campaigners, business leaders and parliamentarians have written an open letter to call for the billions of personal care sample sachets used each year to be included in UK and EU…
OF&G ‘bewildered’ over Defra’s ‘roadmap to nowhere’
Organic Farmers & Growers (OF&G) has expressed dismay at Defra’s Path to Sustainable Farming 2021-2024, calling it a ‘roadmap to nowhere’. Roger Kerr, chief executive of the certifier, comments on…
Organic Trade Association statement on reported choice of Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary
The Organic Trade Association released the following statement today on the reported choice of former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President-elect Joe Biden. The Organic…
UK Vows To Slash Emissions By More Than Two-Thirds To Tackle Climate Crisis
The UK has vowed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by more than two-thirds in the next decade to fight climate change. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ‘ambitious’ target…
MEP Sarah Wiener: “Our children will have to live as Cyborgs if we don’t bring food and farming back to nature”
The main outcomes of the OPTA Farm to Fork Event on December 2 is the urgent need for sound instruments that help to realize the ambitious Farm to Fork goal…
UK standards could be ‘undermined’ by misuse of antibiotics in imported meat and dairy, campaigners warn
Amid growing concerns around the global rise in antibiotic resistance, and as the UK explores potential trade agreements with non-EU countries for post-Brexit imports of meat and dairy, a new…
The Value of Going Carbon Neutral
When Garth Mulholland, environmental programs adviser at the Carbon Reduction Institute in Sydney, returned to work in January 2020 after the summer break, he discovered a remarkable backlog of phone…