Food and Farming

French parliamentarians scrapped plans for a tax on palm oil in 2016 after being warned that passing the law could lead to the execution of a French citizen in Indonesia.

The UK government will launch a global and national review into the link between biodiversity and economic growth.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has signalled that it is in favour of approving further controversial genetically engineered maize variants produced by Bayer (Monsanto).

Farmers to change soil management practices after survey identified severe decline of earthworms in farmland fields.

More than 31,000 animals were used in glyphosate 'safety' tests. Are we safe now?

Social justice movements are finding human rights-based solutions to hunger and the climate crisis and holding global legislators to account.

A debate between vegans and farmers highlights how we can work together to achieve a sustainable and kinder future.

'The pursuit of profit has taken priority over people, over the environment, over everything.'

Indonesia and Malaysia say the EU measure will unfairly disadvantage their crops, while environmentalists worry it won’t be tough enough on deforestation

Traditional farming techniques may offer a solution to climate breakdown and the annihilation of species.

The recent EAT-Lancet report has garnered mixed responses so far but here are the five things you need to know about the 'healthy reference diet'.

Humans made cattle pull loads 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Scientists describe how to feed a population of 10 billion people by 2050 while keeping the planet and ourselves healthy.

Fast food chains ignore chicken welfare to fuel profits, new report finds.

Does the UK Government's Clean Air Strategy go far enough in tackling 'runaway ammonia emissions'?