Food and Farming

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'.

Humans made cattle pull loads 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Scientists describe how to feed a population of 10 billion people by 2050 while keeping the planet and ourselves healthy.

Fast food chains ignore chicken welfare to fuel profits, new report finds.

Does the UK Government's Clean Air Strategy go far enough in tackling 'runaway ammonia emissions'?

We need to overhaul what we grow, and how and where we grow it, if we are to make the most of our land and fight climate change.

UK megafarms in receipt of millions of pounds in government subsidies.

Multiple benefits of organic farming should not be ignored in light of new study.

A new amendment to the Agriculture Bill would help to protect rural communities from toxic pesticides.

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