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Food, Farming, Fairness.

Features

Is hospital food the key to unlocking better outcomes for patients, planet, and producers?

The NHS serves 195 million patient meals every year, which presents an enormous challenge – and opportunity – for those pushing for positive change

Sustainability UK Gov Health

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.

Farming Pesticides Politics

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

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

Opinion

News from the farm: Impossible choices we’re responsible for

Climate change Guy Singh-Watson News from the farm

WL Meets

WL Meets: David Wolfe, environmental lawyer fighting to save an agroforestry oasis

Agroforestry Biodiversity Community Environment and ethics Farming

Features

Sustainable Living with Zac – How to grow a greener garden

Sustainable Living with Zac

STORY OF THE WEEK

UK gardens support over 50% of the nation’s butterflies, amphibians and reptiles, and more than 40% of bird and mammal species, making them vital for nature recovery. Zac Goodall, Head of Sustainability, Riverford

Opinion

News from the farm: Longing for Devon drizzle

Agroecology Climate change Farming Guy Singh-Watson

Features

Is hospital food the key to unlocking better outcomes for patients, planet, and producers?

Sustainability UK Gov Health

Features

How venison moved off “posh” plates and onto the public agenda

Sustainability Eating out Environment and ethics Eating and drinking Meat

WL Meets

WL Meets: James Allen, reviving the art of vegetable tanning

Sustainability Environment and ethics Ethical business Meat

Features

News from the farm: Healthy soil, plants & humans

Health News from the farm

The AGtivist

The AGtivist: UK and Europe’s meat, egg, and dairy markets increasingly controlled by Big Food ‘tycoons’

Intensive farming Animal welfare Meat

WL Meets

WL Meets: Caroline Bennett, raising the standard for sustainable fishing

Water Fish

News

Climate crisis, low support, unfair pricing – global survey of farmers highlights systemic struggles

Climate change Farming Inequality

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