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This week’s news has a heavy agricultural feel. Wednesday was, of course, ‘Back British Farming Day’ – an annual event now in its ninth year and taking place with UK farming at a “tipping point”, according to organiser, the NFU. … Read More

MPs returned to Westminster this week ahead of a busy autumn that will see the Conservative Party elect a new leader and the new chancellor, Rachel Reeves, deliver her first budget. Most new governments are afforded a brief honeymoon period… Read More

It’s a four-day week for those lucky enough to be living in England. We’ve therefore squeezed the best sustainability stories into our usual digestible format for you; so make a brew, sit back and enjoy tales of grazing cattle, gene… Read More

UK obesity policy has stagnated in recent years after the Conservative government decided to postpone a number of measures designed to create healthier food environments. These included plans to introduce a 9pm TV advertising watershed for foods high in fat,… Read More

This week’s Digest has a head for figures, and not all of them (or indeed any of them) are especially positive. Regular Footprint readers will need no reminding of the value in eating more fruit and vegetables for a healthy, sustainable diet, yet new data released… Read More

“It’s been a while since we last posted. We’re glad to be back!” This isn’t from us at the Digest (we posted only seven days ago and would never use an exclamation mark); it is the opener from the Defra farming team’s… Read More

The size of the black hole in public finances was the big economic story this week, but there was worrying environmental news too. “Nature is dying,” said Defra secretary Steve Reed as he announced a new statutory plan to protect and… Read More

Campaigners have wasted little time in setting out their key asks for a new government following Labour’s victory in the UK general election. This week saw the publication of reports calling respectively for a doubling of UK fruit and vegetable production and… Read More

This week’s Digest is being written as the UK goes to the polls. It is perhaps fitting that our focus is on hot air. There is the Danish tax on cow belches and the warning that these will squeeze out regenerative farmers;… Read More