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Features

Folic acid in your flour – a welcome fix, or a risk worth knowing about?

New UK legislation makes it mandatory for folic acid to be added to most non-wholemeal flours. Nutritional Therapist, Hannah Neville-Green, unpicks the decision and weighs up the pros and cons

Health

Features

The right to grow gains national momentum

Communities up and down the country are demanding a ‘right to grow.’ And this could have measurable impact on the UK’s food resilience, finds Nick Easen

Activism Cities Community Environment and ethics

News

How Big Ag tied “regen” to synthetic chemical inputs and shaped European farming policy

The same multi-billion-dollar companies producing synthetic agrochemicals are also lobbying for "regen agriculture". David Burrows smells a rat.

Pesticides Farming Politics

News

A future food system that ignores climate change is contributing to the crisis

The food system crisis has been a long time in the making, so why are measures to tackle it stubbornly short-sighted? Asks David Burrows.

Climate change Cost-of-living Price Supermarkets

Features

The award-winning chefs putting British beans back on the menu

Around 95% of the beans we buy are eaten at home, and most of those are baked beans. But fine dining? Tomé Morrissy-Swan meets the chefs working to change people's minds & plates

Diets Eating and drinking Eating out

News

Mackerel is no longer sustainable. So, what fish can we eat?

As Waitrose removes all fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel from its shelves, Lizzie Rivera asks whether fish can ever be a sustainable choice?

Environment and ethics Fish

Features

Farming’s big plastic problem – and emerging solutions

A study of soil taken from 100 British farms found microplastic contamination at every site, writes Nick Easen

Environment and ethics Farming Plastic

News

Poison for profit – EU exports 122,000 tonnes of banned pesticides

44 Highly Hazardous Pesticides, banned for EU use, are still being shipped to the African continent

Environment and ethics Pesticides

News

A wake-up call for coffee’s chemical pesticide dependency

Pesticides

Opinion

News from the farm: Acorns, jays & strawberries

Nature Farming Guy Singh-Watson

Features

Should farmers be paid a basic income?

Agroecology Farming Inequality Politics

STORY OF THE WEEK

The global market won't save us from extreme weather. We need a system that works outside of the market to ensure that local food producers are able to keep producing, especially when we need them the most. We won’t be able to import our way out of future climate crises Jo Poulton, founder, Basic Income for Farmers

Features

How Farming on Crutches is creating community and opportunity for Sierra Leone’s amputees

Community Farming

News

Rights of Nature movement grows, with the Wye and Ouse subject to new protection charters

Water Nature Politics

Features

The government is negligent over glyphosate, says leading professor

Pesticides Health

Features

Folic acid in your flour – a welcome fix, or a risk worth knowing about?

Health

News

Farming Minister visits Riverford as calls for an Organic Action Plan for England gain traction

UK Gov Farming Organics Politics

News

“Someone is being exploited somewhere,” says Zack Polanski, of a food system that’s already in crisis

Supermarkets Cost-of-living Politics Price

Features

The right to grow gains national momentum

Activism Cities Community Environment and ethics

Opinion

News from the farm: Summer as it should taste

Eating and drinking News from the farm Summer

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