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Food Policy
Banking on Soil Carbon
So far, carbon offsetting schemes have focused on tree-planting, but Honor Eldridge highlights the importance of including soil carbon in...
Why we should be concerned about a free-trade deal with Australia?
SFT policy director Richard Young looks at the reasons we should be concerned about a free-trade deal in meat between the UK and Australia
Fixing overfishing
What is overfishing? How bad is has it become, and what are the alternatives? Coty Perry take an in-depth look into the issue and its imp...
The impact of Brexit on small-scale fisheries
Brexit certainly hasn’t been good for the small-scale fishing fleet. Caroline Bennett, who set-up Sole of Discretion as a community inter...
The TED Talks | Farming and Climate Change: Measuring Success
On the 29th April 2021, we launched our coalition for the Global Farm Metric project with TEDx Countdown. Watch the video recording from ...
Why the public sector needs more dynamic procurement
There is a huge amount of pressure on farmers to farm more sustainably, but how can the market support them in making this transition? Do...
A CLEAR need for method of production labelling
How can the public make informed decisions about the food that they purchase when product labelling is confusing and unclear? This is an ...
The Prince of Wales sends message to milestone event calling for global framework to measure farm sustainability
The Prince of Wales sends message to milestone event calling for global framework to measure farm sustainability
Small abattoirs in Germany: You get what you pay for
Germany is famous for its bratwurst - but where does that meat come from? Marianne Landzettel addresses the issue of industrialised slaug...
Paving the way to understand our impact
Patrick Holden shares some background to the Global Farm Metric and why it is paving the way for a radical change in food and farming
5 things you need to know about measuring sustainability
In the run up to our TEDx conference, here are 5 things you need to know now about measuring sustainability on your land
The regulation of genetic technologies: Sustainable Food Trust response
We respond to the UK gene editing consultation