Food And Farming

Shetland is facing food insecurity despite its thriving local food scene.

Katie Dancey-Downs visits a permaculture garden with a powerful message.

Beef imported to the UK drives human rights abuses and environmental destruction. The soy to feed British beef is doing the same thing.

Viva! exposes the farms supplying pig meat to Morrisons.

An  equitable future for women means a livable future for all of us.

Animal welfare charity Viva! calls for the end of factory farming and the permanent closure of meat processing plants in response to the disease outbreak.

Shoppers in the UK absolutely don't want US products with lower health and animal welfare standards, even if they are labelled.

Our food system needs immediate and radical reform if we are to feed the world without irreparably damaging our global resource base.

We must go beyond 'voting with our pockets'. A truly sustainable food system requires structural reform of our entire food system.

The huge boats - the largest of which is more than 465ft long - 'vacuum' up huge quantities of fish every day.

'Science cannot be left in the hands of those who champion the multinational seed and agrochemical companies.'

Wimpole Home Farm near Cambridge has been run using organic, wildlife friendly and sustainable farming methods for the past 12 years.

One in eight people said a vegan diet had become more attractive to them.

Trade deals with countries such as the US, Australia and India would drive down UK food standards.

Deforestation-free businesses and finance should be new norm in UK.

The UK is highly dependent on Spain and the Netherlands for the majority of its fresh vegetable imports.

As society shifted from liberty to lockdown, life as we know it changed. This global crisis warrants a global response and that’s what we’re giving it… or are we?

Beef - and soya for beef - for the UK market drives biodiversity collapse, deforestation and other habitat loss. As does chocolate.

We must challenge the story we are told - that bigger farms, more machines, more chemicals and more air miles are the only way to feed ourselves.

The Wild Ken Hill project on the Norfolk coast is turning around 1,000 acres of marginal farmland and woodland back over to nature.

Animal rights activists urge UK Government to end animal agriculture bailouts as 'Drink Milk' campaign launches.

Agriculture Bill should protect UK farmers and consumers from deregulated imports in the event of a US UK trade deal. 

Take part in Beyond GM's survey of public opinion on genome editing in food and farming.

Indigenous communities in Latin America are paying a high price for defending biodiversity, but we have so much to learn from their practices.