Agriculture

New manufacturing technologies could revolutionise our food system, dramatically reducing it's environmental footprint.

Farmers can avoid apparent contradictions between trees and crops with innovative land management.

Nine out of 10 people (92%) think it is important that farmers focus on climate change and wildlife losses.

Festive cheer is in full swing, but it’s time we seriously questioned the events that take place to allow for this holiday of overindulgence.

Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) calls on government for practical support for farmers transitioning to low carbon agriculture.

The NFU’s goal for farming to reach net zero emissions should be welcomed - but their plan to achieve this is worrying and ignores the elephant in the room.

Grassroots approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal.

Legislation on the environment, fisheries and agriculture have been welcomed by campaigners, but many warn key measures are missing.

'We’re all connected through industry and ecology, and change will require a huge group effort.'

We need to fundamentally overhaul our agriculture and forestry practices.

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.

Archaeologists, historians and anthropologists have an important role to play in the decision-making around how we build a sustainable food future.

Intensive agribusiness is causing a global decline in insect populations with serious consequences for humans and the rest of nature.

The UK can convert animal farmland to forest and still grow enough protein as well as help combat climate change, Harvard research shows.

Clearer thinking can help us steer a path towards sustainability.

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

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

Riverford founder has released a 'video rant' to coincide with World Soil Day.

A major new report sets out how the world can meet growing demands for food, while avoiding deforestation, stabilising the climate and reducing poverty.

The new Agriculture Bill may sound good - but won’t deliver on public goods or environmental protection.

Reducing meat and dairy consumption is essential for meeting climate targets.

Natural systems can teach us how to repair the damage caused by large-scale meat consumption, pollution and agribusiness.

Insect pollinators that have survived the impacts of agricultural intensification may have a greater ability to resist future environmental changes than previously thought, MARIANNE BROOKER reports

Michael Gove's agriculture bill ignores the problems local farmers face in producing healthy and sustainable food, argues NATALIE BENNETT