Pamela Ebanyat, acting country director for Send a Cow Uganda, writes about the challenges caused by Covid, and how the team are adapting to support family farmers.
By Pamela Ebanyat - 1st July 2020
0
Magnesium is one of the most common nutrient deficiencies in diets due to poor soils, processed foods, alcohol intake and stressful lifestyles, but simple changes can turn that around.
By Emma Rushe - 17th June 2020
0
French researchers have mapped a radical new food and farming system, phasing out pesticides, moving away from soy imports, and reducing the emissions of farming by 40 per cent.
By Nina Pullman - 11th June 2020
1
Excluded from a rise in Universal Credit payments and as food bank demand doubles, the UK’s asylum seekers and refugees are among some of the worst hit by coronavirus.
By Jez Fredenburgh - 9th June 2020
0
Public awareness is growing over the threat to British standards of food and animal welfare after Jamie Oliver backs campaign in video on Instagram.
By Nina Pullman - 5th June 2020
5
After struggling to digest traditional wheat-based bread, Vanessa Kimbell embarked on a lifelong adventure into sourdough and a PhD exploring its relationship with the gut microbiome.
By Vanessa Kimbell - 18th May 2020
3
As the government prepares to return to business as usual, Professor Tim Lang tells Nick Easen why the imbalance in UK food supply explains why it is totally unequipped for coronavirus, Brexit and…
By Nick Easen - 11th May 2020
5
Now that shopping for endless stuff we don't need isn’t available to us as freely, it is heartening to see the upsurge in creativity filling the space left behind.
By Becky Marshall - 11th May 2020
0
Producers of some of the world’s biggest crops, including bananas, coffee and cacao, are facing a devastating loss of income as supply chains stall.
By Jez Fredenburgh - 7th May 2020
0
World Chocolate Day will take place among growing pressure for Nestle to reverse decision to stop buying Fairtrade cocoa and sugar.
By Nina Pullman - 7th July 2020
4
A sustainable packaging start-up is collecting waste fruit and veg from farms and converting it into an edible packaging material using the kombucha drink fermentation technique.
By Juliette Bretan - 6th July 2020
3
Learn how to pickle radishes in this week's Veg Hack with chef James Evans.
By James Evans - 3rd July 2020
0
Water is a precious resource – July's GYO Wicked Leeks column is all about how to use it wisely in your garden, maximise soil moisture and conserve water if you’re going away.
By Sarah Brown - 2nd July 2020
0
Even up until the 1990s, we were the only ones growing them in the UK – that was before the health benefits around antioxidants became known and it really took off.
By David Trehane - 2nd July 2020
1
As previously, transport is our biggest sin, and the final delivery to the door is the most carbon costly – so we are converting over 70 per cent of our vans to electric by 2023.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 1st July 2020
6