Food and Farming

Government is talking about issues like food security, climate change and oil dependency but failing to take the 'inconvenient' but necessary action says the Soil Association

Dismissed initially as a good storyteller but nothing more, environmental historian Poul Holm has mapped the history of marine animals in such detail that it is having profound impacts on our current understanding of the oceans

Private enterprise will increase the number of available allotment plots, but they will cost much more than their council subsidised cousins

Large-scale mobilisation of the poor, unemployed or prison population into ecological farming will help everyone

Carbon reduction potential of ecological farming methods is highlighted at Copenhagen, as protests against industrial agriculture gather strength

US company wants its GM crops to be given carbon credits and to be at the forefront of tackling climate change despite link to deforestation

All sectors must play their part in a global emissions deal, but could including agriculture in the mix lead to an intensification of farming and money for GM crops?

BBSRC-funded website backlash against sustainable watchdog’s call to reduce meat consumption

A new report by the Sustainable Development Commission warns that, for the good of our health and the environment, we must reduce our meat and dairy consumption. By how much, asks Louise Parry, in this exclusive audio report

Warmer weather and reduced frosts linked to climate change are giving a boost to spring mushroom numbers in the UK and Europe

By not properly discussing agriculture at national or international climate negotiations, we are avoiding tackling not just a huge source of emissions, but also a potential carbon sink

Londoners are to be further encouraged to grow their own food on disused land

Local population evicted as Mali sells long-term leases on large tracts of agricultural land to Libyan company

Jordans cereals founder Bill Jordan says his company's method of farming can feed the world and safeguard biodiversity

UK citizens are confused by the current publicly available information on GM foods and want clearer facts made available in shops and supermarkets