Articles
Food Systems
A true cost of food Q&A with Liz Earle
Liz Earle talks to Patrick Holden CBE, Founding Director of the Sustainable Food Trust, about the true cost of the food we eat
The way forward: Al Gore’s climate reality
A must-watch short film from Al Gore's Climate Reality project on the true cost of our dirty energy systems. We aim to apply these princi...
Pavan Sukhdev: The value of nature
In this TED talk by Pavan Sukhdev, he assesses the value of the Earth's natural capital. If we knew the true cost, would we be more caref...
Gleaning forgotten fruits
A new movement in the UK is aiming to tackle the problem of food waste. We meet the UK Gleaning Network and the army of volunteers harves...
Understanding GMOs
Grist columnist Nathanael Johnson has made it is mission to understand GMOs and taken on the debate in a series of blogs. We review his t...
Self-sufficient Britain?
British produce or cheap international imports? Richard Young asks whether global food chains represent the worst excesses of our neo-col...
Liberty, well-being and GMOs
American pioneer-farmer, Joel Salatin, explains why GMO cross-contamination is the ultimate intrusion on our rights of ownership and pers...
Summer of soil
Patrick Holden meets the young people building a movement to save our soils and build future fertility, at the Summer of Soil programme i...
Shopping for change
Patrick Holden looks at whether information on what's wrong with our current food system can create positive change by influencing our sh...
Mob grazing
We take a look at a system of agriculture, based on the way animals graze, which could have the answer to feeding our ever-growing popula...
Land Workers’ Alliance
The Land Workers' Alliance of England and Wales have issued a statement outlining their concerns about the EU-US Transatlantic Trade Agre...
The problem of land grabbing
Patrick looks at the problem of land grabbing and how to raise awareness of the devastating impact this can have on local food producers