Petition launched to ‘get reusables back on the menu’
Plastic pollution campaign group City to Sea has launched a 38 Degrees petition “to get reusables back on the menu”.
Elevating organic: Report positions organic as ‘time-tested’ tool for stemming climate impacts
A major new report from the Organic Trade Association highlights organic agriculture’s multiple climate change mitigation benefits and ways it can be harnessed to stem, and even reverse, climate impacts.
Organic takes on climate change
Organic Trade Association unveils blueprint to advance organic in climate change policy The threat that climate change poses to our world, our ecosystem and our health demands bold policy solutions,…
OTA welcomes “historic rulemaking” that will protect against organic fraud
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today publishes a proposed new rule to strengthen protection against fraud in the organic supply chain.
Radical intervention: UK organic sector welcomes report’s tough stance on trade deals
Organic and sustainable farming groups have welcomed a new independent review of UK food policy that calls for "a gold standard level of scrutiny" to ensure post-Brexit trade deals do…
Webinar report: Sustainability, regulation and co-existence top the agenda
Panellists at our recent webinar Sense, Science and Sustainability tackled the question of genetic engineering in food and farming through a sustainability lens– leading to some surprising admissions. Co-hosted with…
“Sustainability is not good enough…we need to move on”, CIWF global CEO urges
The limits and usefulness of the term sustainability were called into question by key figures within the worlds of animal welfare and organic farming this week.
Thames suffering ‘high abundance of devastating’ plastic pollution – and the Covid crisis is making matters worse
The River Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics anywhere in the world, according to a new studies by researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Sustainable farming? GMOs? Agroecology? Be a part of the discussion
Our upcoming webinar Sense, Science and Sustainability is asking a hot topic question: Can genome editing and agroecology co-exist in the sustainable food and farming mix?
Power of the plate: How America’s food system has led to an epidemic of chronic disease – and what to do about it
A new white paper released by Rodale Institute and The Plantrician Project reveals how the American food system has contributed to epidemic levels of chronic disease and lowered immune systems – and how…