agriculture

  • Will Burnham warm to food and climate agenda?

    Will Burnham warm to food and climate agenda?

    As the new prime minister spends his early days in office focusing on living standards, could it be that the most useful clues to his views on food policy are to be found in his past?

  • Farming enters ‘climate doop loop’

    Farming enters ‘climate doop loop’

    The brown fields and dry rivers have told their own story, but the data crunchers at the Met Office have now confirmed what we can see with our own eyes

  • Egg challenge not quite cracked

    Egg challenge not quite cracked

    UK food businesses continue to lead the way in sourcing cage-free eggs from laying hens, however reaching 100% compliance remains a step too far for many

  • Rockets and feathers

    Rockets and feathers

    What goes up must come down. Although in the case of food prices, the descent is likely to be far slower than the journey to the summit

  • A risky business

    A risky business

    Large food businesses should be required to show how they are planning for climate risk, according to a major new report on climate adaptation

  • Minette Batters: Who pays for change? Farming, foodservice and the fight for a viable future

    Minette Batters: Who pays for change? Farming, foodservice and the fight for a viable future

    Minette Batters — farmer, broadcaster, former NFU President and now crossbench peer — has spent her career making the case that farming and food policy are inseparable. She’s done it in the media, in parliament and on the land

  • A plan for the land

    A plan for the land

    England’s first ever land use framework aims to maintain domestic food production while freeing land for nature, development and energy. Can it carry off such a delicate balancing act?

  • Farmers get desperate as ministers primed to step in

    FARMING LEADERS have gone hoarse in recent days calling for “seismic change” in the way food is sold.                           Now they have published an action plan to avoid…

  • 60 billion Euros are lost in food supply chain

    A NEW REPORT from Dutch multinational bank Rabobank has revealed that the waste in the European Food and Agriculture (F&A) supply chain is as much as 60 billion euros a year.                  …

  • UK faces agriculture crisis

    THE NATIONAL FARMERS Union (NFU) will announce that the UK is set to face a crisis in its agriculture production outputs if more is not done to invest in farming.                    …