Food and Farming

This new e-book tells you everything you need to know about raising fish and vegetables for the table at home in an ingenious, ecological way

Salmon farming is renowned for its local environmental pollution, but now some fish farmers are starting to look at fish waste as an untapped resource

Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports

Our growing demand for cheap feed to produce cheap meat is exacting a terrible human and environmental price. But the solutions are clear, and are within our reach

Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports

Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence

Tamzin Pinkerton and Rob Hopkins have created a one-stop guide packed with ideas, tips and examples of how to source food closer to home

What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, they did at least try to warn us that intensive farming would render our soils and civilisation unviable...

It may smell awful, but it's a recycling industry of sorts. The Atlantic Rising team visit a social enterprise livestock-feed factory in Safi, Morocco

US company has too much influence over market and is partly to blame for recent high food prices

Green Revolution architect Norman Borlaug is credited with 'feeding India'. But the feat took more than hybrid varieties and fertiliser, and it will take a much more sophisticated approach to help Africa feed itself

Companies should counter organic groups' criticisms of food technologies to convince consumers to accept biotechnology and irradiation, says US study

New welfare regulations contained too many loopholes anyway say animal rights campaigners

Multi-million pound brand Good Natured Fruit is marketed in Asda and Sainsbury's as 'pesticide free', but the company now admits it allows chemicals to be used during plants' life-cycle

Human form of swine flu found in pig herd poses no food health risk says FSA