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Nina Pullman

Nina is editor of Wicked Leeks and a journalist specialising in food sustainability, supply chains and ethical business. She honed her trade at leading trade magazine Fresh Produce Journal, and has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post and The Ecologist. A passionate traveller, she is interested in food as the starting point for discussions about culture, the environment, health, business, politics and beyond.

Articles by Nina Pullman

    • Environment & ethics
    • Fish

    Seaspiracy questions reality of ‘sustainable’ fishing

    The Netflix documentary has been welcomed for spotlighting damage from large-scale fishing while its claim that no fish is sustainable is disputed.

    By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021

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    • Plastic
    • Nature
    • Mental health

    Charity launches biggest-ever UK beach clean

    Charity Surfers Against Sewage hopes to galvanise 100,000 Brits to clean a million miles of rivers, beaches and green spaces to counter the rise in single-use plastic since the pandemic.

    By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021

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    • Organics
    • Grow your own

    Riverford launches organic ‘soil boxes’

    New soil boxes will be sold alongside Riverford’s organic veg boxes to supercharge home gardens and veg patches after consumer interest in soil reaches new heights.

    By Nina Pullman - 1st April 2021

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    • Fish
    • Ethical business

    New fishing limits ‘nothing to celebrate’

    Environmental campaigners have criticised the first post-Brexit agreement on fish stocks in the North Sea as not going far enough to tackle overfishing while a new limit on cod is ‘deeply concerning’.

    By Nina Pullman - 24th March 2021

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    • Politics
    • Biodiversity
    • Climate change

    Green Brexit fails to arrive

    Air quality, nature restoration and chemical regulations are among the environmental protection that are static or weaker since Brexit despite government pledges.

    By Nina Pullman - 17th March 2021

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    • Ethical business
    • Climate change
    • Biodiversity

    A different kind of Amazon

    How one indigenous community in the Peruvian rainforest is pioneering shade-grown coffee produced under the canopy, future-proofing their way of life and the fragility of their forest ecosystem.

    By Nina Pullman - 16th March 2021

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    • Health
    • Farming
    • Seeds

    Breeding food for nutrition: common sense or quasi science?

    The agri revolution led to a focus on crop yields above all else – but researchers are beginning to look again at nutrition in our food.

    By Jack Thompson - 9th April 2021

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    • Environment & ethics
    • Fish

    Seaspiracy questions reality of ‘sustainable’ fishing

    The Netflix documentary has been welcomed for spotlighting damage from large-scale fishing while its claim that no fish is sustainable is disputed.

    By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021

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    • Nature
    • Biodiversity

    Biodiversity is about habitats not just species

    More than just reefs and rainforests, habitat diversity also covers the heaths, woodlands, fens and bogs closer to home. Here's how you can help protect and visit some of the habitat restoration…

    By Becky Blench - 8th April 2021

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    • Plastic
    • Nature
    • Mental health

    Charity launches biggest-ever UK beach clean

    Charity Surfers Against Sewage hopes to galvanise 100,000 Brits to clean a million miles of rivers, beaches and green spaces to counter the rise in single-use plastic since the pandemic.

    By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021

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    • News from the farm
    • Fish
    • Environment & ethics

    The uncomfortable truth about fishing

    I found it hard to disagree with the main conclusion of Seaspiracy: that there is almost no sustainable fishing, and the labels claiming sustainability fall a long way short of delivering it.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 8th April 2021

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    • Inequality
    • Farming
    • Politics

    What can we glean from the loss of the Commons?

    The pandemic has brought a fresh perspective on the power of community and feelings of injustice: let’s channel this anger positively and build dignified food security for all, writes David Markson.

    By David Markson - 6th April 2021

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The aim of food is to nourish us; to provide us with energy necessary for growth and health. But it is debateable whether growing food for nutrition has been…

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There are three types of biodiversity that encompass the vast, interconnected web of life on Earth - genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity. It is our…

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