Food and Farming

Simply labelling pig meat products with their country of origin won't change consumer behaviour. Telling people how it was produced just might

Owner of Walls, Mattessons and Richmond sausage brands says telling public where meat comes from would 'add cost' and 'jeopardise our brand positioning'

Biochar's potential to improve tropical soils and store carbon in the ground is huge; but if linked to current market mechanisms it would be ripe for exploitation

Drawing from 40 years of composting experience, Nicky Scott's latest book will inspire confidence in beginners and give new techniques to veteran composters

More than a quarter of the total US grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars last year, according to a new analysis

Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe

Calls to bring forward ban on recyclable material sent to landfill increase, as reports emerge of big increases in the quantity of textile waste being dumped

Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful pesticides, but schools claim safer alternatives would be 'uneconomic'

Supermarket ombudsman will enforce a new code of practice between retailers and their suppliers

It has no synthetic alternative and some scientists believe supplies may already be in a terminal decline. But there is still no international effort to tackle the massive agricultural problems that will come when the phosphorus runs out

Despite promising the world in 2009, biotech corporations have increasingly raised the hackles of scientists and citizens worldwide

UK court refuses to overturn appeal decision despite accusations it was ignoring evidence presented by the long-time pesticide campaigner

Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food sources rather than pesticides or disease seen as biggest threat to honey bees

Government is talking about issues like food security, climate change and oil dependency but failing to take the 'inconvenient' but necessary action says the Soil Association

Dismissed initially as a good storyteller but nothing more, environmental historian Poul Holm has mapped the history of marine animals in such detail that it is having profound impacts on our current understanding of the oceans