Organic

FSA says French study on benefits of organic farming published last week used 'diluted data'

The largest festival of its kind in Europe was smaller this year but still a food lover's dream. Emma Bocking reports

Adam Leith Gollner's new book is a journey of discovery through the science, history, art and politics of fruit

FSA review dismisses health benefits of eating organic but admits to a lack of research on which to base findings

A consultation by the Welsh Assembly Government proposes more stringent measures to protect Wales's farmers from the threat of cross-contamination by GM crops

A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year

It began as a student project: environmentally-friendly underwear with a message. But Green Knickers has taken off - to the delight of its founders. Matilda Lee reports

It’s fresh, organic and locally produced. It’s hospital food, but not as we know it – yet. Dixe Wills meets the catering manager who’s transforming the canteen kitchen

Unpasteurised milk can be a divisive subject, says Laura Sevier, but most of what you hear about the white stuff is pure whitewash

The fashion industry listens to shoppers, even if governments don't. Use your power as a consumer to make safer, organic cotton more widely available:

The UK’s organic brewers are calling time on beer corporations, as Rachel Clode discovers

MPs endorse new report and slam ‘ostrich view’ of farming

Chemicals, pesticides, GM and agrofuels – when it comes to food production it seems the lunatics are running the asylum. But there is hope in some new approaches

Battling a fractured back and the vagaries of the weather high in the Pyrenees, is the biodynamic dream of wine writer turned grower Monty Waldin about to turn sour?

Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must eat and farm differently

Drinking organic milk can cut the risk of childhood eczema by a third, a new study has shown.

We can all eat well with a little thought and effort. Here's how...

A new study by scientists at the University of Michigan in the US suggests that on farms in industrialised countries, organic farming can produce comparable yields to those achieved by conventional farming.

Laura Sevier goes to an Org-e. And likes it.

Septuagenarian Mehr Fardoonji is still to be found with her hands in the soil after forty-five years of organic market gardening

Ethical consumerism in the UK is currently worth £29.3 billion, yet 60 per cent of us feel we don't have enough information to make an ethical decision. There is an ever-growing array of eco labels, but what do they tell us? Or fail to tell us? Pat Thomas explains

All organic food must meet a common set of minimum standards, as defined by the EU. Each EU member state has a national control body; the United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards (UKROFS) regulates the activities of six certification bodies in the UK. The oldest and largest, the Soil Association (founded in 1946), currently undertakes 80 per cent of all certification in the UK and is arguably the organic label most trusted by consumers.

A report released by Friends of the Earth yesterday shows that ‘environment-friendly’ farming - including organics - creates more jobs, uses fewer resources and is more profitable than farming using genetically modified (GM) crops.

Antipodean winemakers are still breathing fresh air into the stuffy Old World of wine. Monty Waldin reports