Food and Farming

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.

The best solution to the compound crises of climate, biodiversity and soil depletion is to simply stop eating animals.

At a debate organised by the Food Ethics Council the jury favoured a tax on ultra-processed foods over a tax on meat.

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

A thoughtful, healthy and sustainable food system can only come when communities are empowered to make decisions for themselves.

Intensive agriculture's role in the destruction of symbiosis is well-documented and cannot be ignored any longer.

Everything that we eat comes with some level of environmental cost - however some foods are undoubtedly better than others.

A fungus has developed multiple-drug resistance and is rapidly spreading across the globe.

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

The free online course, 'Citizen Science: Living Soils, Growing Food' encourages home-growers to move away from monocultural planting.

We are losing species to extinction at an unprecedented rate and human activity is the culprit - can going vegan help?

Tree Aid - an environmental and international development charity - has launched a three-month appeal with proceeds doubled by the UK government.

An organic farming project based in a rural Indian village is reviving traditional agriculture and reaping the rewards.

Clearer thinking can help us steer a path towards sustainability.

The UK government will launch a global and national review into the link between biodiversity and economic growth.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has signalled that it is in favour of approving further controversial genetically engineered maize variants produced by Bayer (Monsanto).

Farmers to change soil management practices after survey identified severe decline of earthworms in farmland fields.

More than 31,000 animals were used in glyphosate 'safety' tests. Are we safe now?

Social justice movements are finding human rights-based solutions to hunger and the climate crisis and holding global legislators to account.

A debate between vegans and farmers highlights how we can work together to achieve a sustainable and kinder future.

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

The recent EAT-Lancet report has garnered mixed responses so far but here are the five things you need to know about the 'healthy reference diet'.