Food and Farming

Almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases put out by humans comes from land use.

Johnson's efforts to deregulate the biotech industry are cloaked in progressive language about “innovation” and ending world hunger. 

Dr Stephen Cornelius, WWF's chief adviser on climate change calls for urgent transformation ahead of IPCC report.

EU proposal to ban the use of words like 'burger' to describe foods that don’t contain meat could prevent people reducing meat in their diet.

Millions of dairy calves across the EU are kept in cages, new report finds.

The Food Forest Project provides healthy, organic food for local communities and habitats for wildlife.

How might farming change after Brexit?

Field after field of barren grassy hills is neither ecologically desirable nor essential. We desperately need to break up this green concrete by planting more trees in our uplands.

Brazil sent a million salmonella contaminated chickens to the UK in two years.

A special investigation from Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and Lucy Michaels in London, Dominic Phillips, André Campos and Diego Junqueira in Sao Paulo and Claire Smyth in Belfast.

A special investigation from Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and Lucy Michaels in London, Dominic Phillips, André Campos and Diego Junqueira in Sao Paulo and Claire Smyth in Belfast.

Research from the University of Leeds, in England, and the University of Veracruz, in Mexico, concludes shoppers have to get past 'ick factor'.

There are one billion chickens raised and killed for food per year in the UK - 95 percent of them are reared on intensive factory farms.

Industrial, imperial food systems have reduced food to a commodity, to 'stuff' that can then be constituted in the homogenised lab.

Key environmental organisations are coming together and supporting plant-based diets as a powerful tool to combat climate change.