The world is facing a climate crisis and the changes this brings is dramatically impacting farmers across the world. As temperatures rise and rainfall becomes increasingly...
From flooded fields to being flooded with nature-seeking urbanites, Somerset farmer Julie Baber, gives her view of these last dramatic months in a blog for the...
COVID-19 has profoundly disrupted our food system and has made the public more aware of its fragility and the need to build greater resiliency into the...
In the spirit of DIY and self-sufficiency, we want to encourage everyone to do more ‘grow your own’. It’s not only a great way to reconnect...
In a world where most of us buy our food from big food retailers with global supply chains, and governments set the policy framework, it might...
Should we intensify agriculture to prevent future pandemics? A recent article argued that the way to prevent future pandemics is to intensify agriculture. Lizzie Rowe explores...
Episode Six: In conversation with John Humphrys – Sustainable Food Trust – Sustainable Food TrustVector Smart ObjectmenuVector Smart ObjectSustainable Food Trust Logo We use cookies to...
A key element of the Sustainable Food Trust’s work is addressing one of the most pressing but contentious issues of our time: what should we eat...
Marianne Landzettel explores how COVID-19 is impacting the US industrial livestock sector, in particular the slaughtering and processing facilities which have become increasingly centralised over the...
In farming and food systems, as in every other avenue of public life, context is everything, as I said during a discussion on Al Jazeera’s ‘Inside...
Alongside COVID-19, is another looming global crisis, equally as dangerous and potentially more terrible in the long-term: anthropogenic climate change. Both climate change and the coronavirus...
In the last few weeks, we have all experienced the impact that COVID-19 has had on food supplies. With supermarkets picked clean, many are wondering whether...
As a new entrant farmer, I didn’t think I’d be producing food this year. My partner and I are out in West Wales and have been...
In this episode, Patrick speaks to regenerative farmer Will Harris, based in the United States, in Bluffton, Georgia. At White Oak Pastures, Will farms livestock including...
Covid-19 has disrupted our food supply systems in a way that no one could have predicted. However, some incredible organisations across the UK and around the...
In this episode Patrick speaks to American farmer and pioneer in regenerative agriculture, Joel Salatin, about local and resilient food systems. Joel raises livestock at Polyface Farm in...
For me, the run up to Easter is a very emotional time for reasons I don’t fully understand. This year, I am unsettled by the turbulent...