This article was first published on the Guardian, you can access the original here. John Cherry bends down and takes a handful of soil in his hands, brings it up to his face and breathes…

This article was originally published on the Farmers Weekly, it can be accessed here. The RSPB and a number of other environmental groups have resigned from the government’s pesticides forum, claiming voluntary efforts to reduce…

This long read was first published on TNI, the original is available here. Against the backdrop of an agrarian landscape that has become more homogenous, sterile and empty over the past 50 years, a new…

This article was originally posted on Sustain’s website, you can access the original here. New research shows that long-term organically farmed soils emit 40 percent less greenhouse gases per hectare than conventionally farmed soils. Agriculture…

This article by Sam Packer was first posted on Food Manifesto Wales, you can access the original here. Farmers know a thing or two about the weather, and it’s clear that the winds are changing…

A new report published by a network of  European grassroots civil society organisations calls for a Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and wider policy framework that explicitly favours small-scale sustainable producers and re-localisation of food supply-chains,…

An ageing population of farmers, huge barriers to land ownership and an unprecedented environmental crisis sparks renewed investment in small, ecological farms. Nearly half the land in the UK is owned by just 25,000 people…

This article by Rob Percival (Head of  Food and Health Policy at the Soil Association) was originally published on the Ecologist, it can be accessed here. – The UK government will launch a global and…

This article first appeared on the Soil Association website, it can be accessed here. – Europe could be farmed entirely through agroecological approaches such as organic and still feed a growing population, a new scientific…