Food and Farming

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

Private enterprise will increase the number of available allotment plots, but they will cost much more than their council subsidised cousins

Large-scale mobilisation of the poor, unemployed or prison population into ecological farming will help everyone

Carbon reduction potential of ecological farming methods is highlighted at Copenhagen, as protests against industrial agriculture gather strength

US company wants its GM crops to be given carbon credits and to be at the forefront of tackling climate change despite link to deforestation