Articles
Food Systems
Farming the desert
Could farming the desert be a potential answer to increasing food production in the developing world?
Eating meat: A debate
Tom Levitt explores 'meat-centric' diets and intensive livestock farming, and argues that unless we take action, it will be the poorest o...
The fight against potato blight
A new blight resistant GM potato has been hailed as a success, but what about the alternatives? We investigate the non-GM options
Paying for our cheap food choices
Why the outcome of True Cost Accounting should be food democracy and not consumers priced out of eating well
Reflections on resilience
Mike Jones reflects on the importance of creating more resilient and adaptive food systems, in light of an uncertain future
Thinking outside the (chocolate) box
Instead of 'giving up' this Lent, we suggest alternatives that reflect upon, appreciate and give to society and the environment by ‘takin...
Agroforestry letter to Defra
An open letter to Defra on the need to reassess the role of agroforestry in building food-secure, climate resistant systems for UK agricu...
Fishing for votes in troubled waters
This weekend will mark the beginning of the 51st Salon de l'Agriculture, France's largest farming exhibition
The true cost of cheap meat
Philip Lymbery, of Compassion in World Farming, explores the wide range of environmental and social impacts of our industrialised food sy...
True Cost Accounting conference film
This short-film gives you a flavour of the diversity of the discussion that took place
Can cows save the planet?
Could livestock play an important role in alleviating climate change? We review Judith Schwartz's new book
Top picks of the food blogs
A round-up of the best food blogs published over the Christmas period, featuring the cost of cheap food, keeping farmland for farmers and...