- Inequality
- Health
- Food waste
Delivering food and friendship
Navigating access to food and social isolation might be relatively new concepts for some, but for one charity, it’s business as usual.
By Nina Pullman - 15th October 2020
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Coronavirus
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- Cartoon
- Mental health
- Nature
Ellis: Working from home
Ellis notes how lockdown conditions have varied with some feeling more at home than others.
By Ellis - 13th October 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Local sourcing
Cooking our way to a new normal
We have become a nation more adventurous in the kitchen, with a new inclination to cook more from scratch - but will our new lockdown food habits become permanent?
By Melissa Thompson - 8th October 2020
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- News from the farm
- Growers and suppliers
An unconventionally human supply chain
I am immensely grateful to our crop programming team; with extraordinary prescience, they calmly set about increasing the volumes we had planned with existing growers.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 8th October 2020
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- Biodiversity
- Farming
‘Intensively-used land’ linked to disease outbreaks
Land use change including deforestation for agriculture may increase the risk of future pandemics caused by diseases originating in animal hosts, a new study has found.
By Nina Pullman - 5th October 2020
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- The big interview
- Eating & drinking
- Diversity
Veg legend
Yotam Ottolenghi has become the synonymous with the joy of veg-centric cooking – with his co-writer Ixta Belfrage, he reflects on changing food habits during Covid, the effect of Black Lives Matter…
By Nina Pullman - 1st October 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Ethical business
- Climate change
Wicked Leeks issue 4: Out now
Read a cover interview with Yotam Ottolenghi, the latest news on food, farming and the environment and seasonal eating inspiration for autumn.
By Nina Pullman - 27th September 2020
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- Biodiversity
- Environment & ethics
Campaigners gear up to protect nature
The National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts have both issued new calls to protect and restore nature via conservation efforts and designated ‘wild belt’ areas.
By Nina Pullman - 18th September 2020
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- Grow your own
Seed saving in the time of corona
When lockdown took hold, seed companies ran dry as many turned their hand to growing their own food. Here's how to save your own seeds for next year’s growing.
By Sarah Brown - 4th September 2020
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Latest articles
- 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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