- The big interview
- Plant-based
- Health
Wicked Chats with Doctor Alan
Gut doctor Alan Desmond on working on the frontline during Covid, smiling and converting the world to a plant-based diet.
By Nina Pullman - 5th January 2021
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- Health
- Environment & ethics
Global pesticide poisonings up ‘dramatically’
New report finds the number of global farmers and farm workers who have been poisoned by pesticides has risen over the last 30 years with the worst instances in Asia.
By Nina Pullman - 9th December 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Health
Is it time to introduce a ‘Feeding Tariff’?
Applying lessons from the renewable energy sector where feed-in tariff subsidies helped increase production could help provide sustainable healthy food for all.
By Kate Carfrae - 24th November 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Health
Is it time to introduce a ‘Feeding Tariff’?
Applying lessons from the renewable energy sector where feed-in tariff subsidies helped increase production could help provide sustainable healthy food for all.
By Kate Carfrae - 24th November 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Flexitarianism
Why food should go back to the future
Truly modern nutritional advice, as opposed to the magic-bullet, snake-oil kind that has become the norm, veers closer and closer to folk wisdom, writes Colin Tudge in this excerpt from his new book.
By Colin Tudge - 16th November 2020
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- Health
- Farming
Strawberries top 'Dirty Dozen' pesticide list
The amount of non organic fruit and veg sold in the UK containing a 'cocktail' of pesticides has risen in the last year with strawberries and lemons topping the annual 'Dirty Dozen' list.
By Nina Pullman - 11th November 2020
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- Inequality
- Health
Food poverty, are we at a crossroads?
Welcome though efforts to feed children living with poverty are, the financial stress experienced by people facing loss of income will not ultimately be resolved by providing free food, writes…
By Chantelle Norton - 28th October 2020
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- Inequality
- Health
- Politics
Marcus Rashford unites nation over child poverty
Football star leads unprecedented campaign to help feed hungry children during school holidays in face of MPs voting against extending free school meals.
By Nina Pullman - 27th October 2020
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- 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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Latest articles
- Farming
- Ethical business
- Fairtrade
Roots to Fruits: Seasonality or seasonal workers?
Most British strawberries today are grown in coconut fibre under acres of polytunnels and the season has been extended far beyond summer, writes Louise Gray in her latest Roots to Fruits column.
By Louise Gray - 23rd July 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Celebrating the best of British summer fruit
UK fruit is at its peak of ripeness and flavour; juicy sun-warmed fruits that make for blissful eating whether enjoyed as they are or in one of these show stopping recipes.
By Becky Blench - 22nd July 2021
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- News from the farm
- Farming
Mixed farming and the National Food Strategy
Market forces have driven agriculture towards specialisation and scale; the increased yields have reduced the price of food over the last 70 years, but with catastrophic environmental costs.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 22nd July 2021
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- Climate change
- Farming
UK farmers trial soya alternatives for animal feed
British farmers are trialling alternatives to soya in animal feed, known to cause deforestation in the Amazon.
By Jack Thompson - 19th July 2021
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- Climate change
- Health
- Eating & drinking
My green kid can cook
As the summer holidays approach, Anna Turns tries a new green cooking book with her daughter and finds a wealth of education and creativity.
By Anna Turns - 19th July 2021
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- The big interview
- Inequality
- Farming
Hungry for truth
‘The Angry Chef’, aka Anthony Warner, tells Jack Thompson why food doesn’t have an ‘easy answer’ and why feeding the masses is a forgotten side of sustainability.
By Jack Thompson - 16th July 2021
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