APPG Briefing on the Precautionary Principle: Lords and the EU (Withdrawal) Bill
The APPG on Agreocology for Sustainable Food and Farming is pleased to have provided a briefing, written in collaboration with Dr Rupert Read of the University of East Anglia, on the importance of maintaining the Precautionary Principle after…
Initial Response to the Agriculture Bill’s Command Paper
The APPG for Agroecology’s initial response to the Agriculture Bill’s Command Paper The long-awaited Command Paper from Defra was published on Tuesday, and will be followed by the publication of an Agricultural Bill before the…
Farming Post Brexit
The future of Britain’s post-Brexit food and farming system was addressed in a Parliamentary event hosted by Jeremy Lefroy MP, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming. The…
APPG: Farmers in Parliament – ‘Opportunity for Change’
The future of Britain’s post-Brexit food and farming system was addressed in a Parliamentary event hosted by Jeremy Lefroy MP, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming. The…
PRESS RELEASE: Farmers gather in parliament
Deborah Meaden to open APPG event "Farmers in Westminster", bringing 15 UK farmers to showcase the best of agroecological farming.
Sustainable low input livestock systems (FAO Report Launch)
Meeting Aim and Outline 1. The FAO will be making that case that global food availability does not have to come at the expense of the environment, and that both targets are achievable through agroecology and concentrate-free,…
PRESS RELEASE – A Beef about the future? – FAO report on low-imput livestock systems
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology will receive an advanced briefing on a forthcoming FAO report on low-input and sustainable livestock systems.
APPG Annual Report for 2014 published
The APPG has published its annual report with a round up of the work done over the past year. Click the link below to read the report: APPG Annual Report 2014
APPG Meeting (July 15th, 6pm) – Reform of the Farm Animal Welfare Codes
Representatives of animal welfare organisations and the NFU meet to discuss the implications of changes in farm animal welfare regulations resulting from the Government's Red Tape Challenge. A joint meeting with the Associate Parliamentary Group on Animal Welfare.