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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

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

Features

Local South Devon residents come together to save the swifts

Biodiversity Animal welfare Community Environment and ethics Nature

WL Meets

WL Meets: Mary Smith on the power of therapeutic growing in Cumbria

People Community Mental health

News

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

Farming Pesticides Politics

STORY OF THE WEEK

A cover crop does not make a system regenerative. A carbon credit does not make a supply chain fair. A flower strip around a field does not erase pesticide dependency. A pilot project does not transform a business model. A beautiful word does not replace public rules. Eduardo Cuoco, director of Ifoam Organics Europe

The AGtivist

The AGtivist: 20% of British dairy producers have quit since the pandemic

Animal welfare Dairy Farming

Opinion

News from the farm: Humbling river pebbles and devolution

UK Gov Farming News from the farm Politics

News

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

Climate change Cost-of-living Price Supermarkets

Features

Should we be farming for nutrient density in our veg & fruit?

Farming Health Organics Soil

Opinion

News from the farm: Hay, silage, strawberries & cream

Farming Guy Singh-Watson Seasonality

Features

The silently rising suicide rate within the farming sector

People Farming Health

WL Meets

WL Meets: Professor Tim Lang, on lack of national preparedness for crises & how to fix it

Coronavirus Brexit Climate change Inequality Politics

The AGtivist

“Systemic status quo” of horrific welfare standards at EU mega-farms linked to antimicrobial resistance

Intensive farming Animal welfare

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