Tag: farming

Chuckling Goat claims world first with brown rice kefir

Chuckling Goat has created a Brown Rice Kefir in what it says…

Jane Wolfe

Happerley announces UK’s first national food and drink provenance centre

Food provenance pioneer Happerley has unveiled plans to create the country’s first…

Jane Wolfe

Sustainable Food Trust welcomes Defra-Dimbleby partnership

The Sustainable Food Trust (SFT) has welcomed Defra’s appointment of Henry Dimbleby,…

Rosie Greenaway

Triodos Bank calls for ‘radical’ change

Triodos Bank has launched a vision paper calling for a ‘radical systemic…

Rosie Greenaway

IPBES Global Assessment a ‘stark warning’ says Soil Association

Following the release of the IPBES Global Assessment on Monday 6 May,…

Rosie Greenaway

Soil Association to revise organic standards

Current organic standards have undergone a ‘major review’ by the Soil Association,…

Rosie Greenaway

Soil Association praises curb on antibiotic use

The Soil Association has praised the European Parliament’s decision to back a…

Rosie Greenaway

Double call to action from the OTB

The Organic Trade Board (OTB) has written to its members asking for…

Rosie Greenaway

Smallholder farmers celebrated via photography exhibition

Due to be hosted at the Bargehouse Gallery, Southbank, London, from 12-21…

Rosie Greenaway

Scientists investigate alternatives to plastic mulch

A team at Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR)…

Jane Wolfe

Organic farmland on the up

The number of British producers farming organically has increased by almost 2%,…

Rosie Greenaway

The rising costs of Brexit

In a report by the House of Lords’ EU Energy and Environment…

Rosie Greenaway

OTB receives £1.73m in funding

The Organic Trade Board (OTB) is to receive a loan from Triodos…

Rosie Greenaway

How indies can combat global warming

Suranga Herath, CEO of English Tea Shop, publishes ‘top tips’ on how…

Rosie Greenaway

New pesticide data is in ‘sharp contrast’ with previous claims

Delegates at the Royal Society of Medicine have heard that the true…

Rosie Greenaway

Natural winners at BBC

The natural and organic sector enjoyed several major wins at The BBC…

Rosie Greenaway

Harmony in food and farming

The groundbreaking Harmony in Food and Farming Conference explained why a sustainable…

Craig Sams

Hodmedod harvests first UK organic lentils

The UK’s first commercial crop of Hodmedod organic lentils are set to…

Rosie Greenaway

Industrialised farming risks ‘derailing humanity’s place on Earth for good’, Prince warns

Decades of destruction to the natural environment caused by industrialized farming risks…

Jim Manson

Germany’s farming minister warns against ‘quasi-conventional regulation’ for organic

Germany’s minister for food and farming, Christian Schmidt, says that EU law-makers…

Jim Manson