Food And Farming

Meet the undercover investigator revealing widespread cruelty in the animal agriculture industry.

New research shows that grasses can incorporate DNA from other species into their genomes through a process known as lateral gene transfer.

Weeds are destroying crops globally - but the real problem is Big Agriculture.

Fishing industry carping about Seapiracy drowns out the real scandal of biodiversity collapse in our oceans.

Seaspiracy, the latest Netflix documentary exposing the impact of our food systems, is making a splash.

Adopting a vegan diet could be the biggest individual contribution to preventing climate breakdown - but we also need systemic change.

Bottom trawling could be prohibited in four English offshore marine protected areas, including Dogger Bank.

To reform farming, we have to look at the bigger picture.

To reform farming, we have to look at the bigger picture.

The public has this year become more literate about disease control. It is time for better scrutiny of the UK badger culling strategy.

Francis Chabboussou's Healthy Crops is a forgotten classic of organic science, with wide-reaching implications for global agriculture.

Farms supplying supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury’s and ASDA accused of keeping birds in appalling conditions.

Going vegan could not only lower your risk of severe Covid-19, if enough of us do it, it could lower the risk of future pandemics.

How to deal with the suffering of wild animals living outside of direct human control is something vegans have not agreed yet.

The multi-billion European Common Agricultural Policy will be replaced post-Brexit with some payments linked to environmental stewardship.

Evangeline Kagwiite, an 90 year-old Ugandan elder, has much to teach us about resilience and food growing.

Climate breakdown and agriculture driving habitat loss, leading to extinctions.

We can transform the British landscape, and the longevity of our economy, if we let nature take the driving seat.

The rise of the salmon farming industry in Scotland is causing death and destruction for marine life.

Nitrogen is essential for all life on earth and fundamental for farming. But to tackle the climate impact of farming we must turn off the synthetic nitrogen tap and manage nitrogen better.

Activists close almost 50 square miles of the Dogger Bank protected area in the North Sea to all destructive bottom trawling.

The UK will leave the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020.

UN sets out how it might be possible to 'bend the curve' and prevent the collapse of biodiversity.

The UK reduced its food waste by a third during lockdown.