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National Food Strategy: Sustainable Food Trust written response
Read our response to the UK National Food Strategy
National Food Strategy: Submission from the Campaign for Local Abattoirs
The Campaign for Local Abattoirs submitted evidence to the UK Government's National Food Strategy in October 2019
G’day for a trade deal?
How would a future trade deal between the UK and Australia effect food and farming? According to a leaked Defra document, food standards ...
General Election 2019: Our call to all Parties
We call on the all the political parties to state their commitment to UK farmers in their manifestos and to give a high priority to devel...
Sustainable Farming and Our Land: Our submission on Welsh agriculture
Read our submission of evidence to the Welsh Government consultation
SFT responds to new study into greenhouse gas impacts of converting to organic
This week saw the publication of a study claiming that a wholesale shift to organic farming in England and Wales could lead to a 21% rise...
Silvopasture: The benefits of integrating livestock and trees
Despite being widely practised for many thousands of years, silvopasture could be classed as a lost art in the UK, where we have tended t...
Trees in the field: Taking farming to a new dimension
Marianne Landzettel meets Stephen Briggs, whose adoption of silvopasture has turned his farm from an intensive monoculture arable system ...
Rewarding soil carbon sequestration: The challenges ahead
Rewarding soil carbon: The challenges ahead Soil’s climate change mitigation potential has come into sharp focus, but getting to the b...
Sustainable Food Trust responds to the Queen’s Speech
We respond to the Queen's Speech opening parliament
The upside of policy: When government listens
Alicia Miller and Nathan Richards give their personal perspective on the future of Welsh agriculture post-Brexit based on their experienc...
Wales Real Food and Farming Conference
The inaugural Wales Real Food and Farming Conference will take place this November in Aberystwyth