Food and Farming

Hemp offers untold benefits for the soil, production processes, renewable fuel and sustainable fashion.

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Imperial College London say culling means infected badgers travel further as neighbouring setts are killed.

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

Returning carbon to the soil can help us produce better food and fight climate breakdown.

Shrimpers explain the impact of large-scale farming on their lives, the environment and ecology.

'Farmers and land managers are uniquely placed to help it recover as they farm around three-quarters of our land.'

UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation.

Food or War traces the nexus between food and conflict through human history, and explores the food driver in recent and existing conflicts.

Growing enough healthy and sustainable food has been moved to the forefront of the agriculture industry.

Ukrainian poultry company MHP will cease production at Ukraine's only foie gras farm.

New figures reveal spread of MRSA superbug on Northern Ireland's livestock farms

Agriculture and land usage are major climate threats, IPCC concludes.

Dr Stephen Cornelius, WWF's chief adviser on climate change calls for urgent transformation ahead of IPCC report.

Millions of dairy calves across the EU are kept in cages, new report finds.

The Food Forest Project provides healthy, organic food for local communities and habitats for wildlife.

How might farming change after Brexit?

Brazil sent a million salmonella contaminated chickens to the UK in two years.

A special investigation from Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and Lucy Michaels in London, Dominic Phillips, André Campos and Diego Junqueira in Sao Paulo and Claire Smyth in Belfast.

A special investigation from Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and Lucy Michaels in London, Dominic Phillips, André Campos and Diego Junqueira in Sao Paulo and Claire Smyth in Belfast.

Research from the University of Leeds, in England, and the University of Veracruz, in Mexico, concludes shoppers have to get past 'ick factor'.

There are one billion chickens raised and killed for food per year in the UK - 95 percent of them are reared on intensive factory farms.

Industrial, imperial food systems have reduced food to a commodity, to 'stuff' that can then be constituted in the homogenised lab.

Key environmental organisations are coming together and supporting plant-based diets as a powerful tool to combat climate change.

UK greenhouse gas emissions could be cut by up to 8.4 percent a year by swapping red meat to plant-based just once a week.