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Importing food and exporting drought: The hidden water in your fruit and vegetables
In the midst of confusing messages about meat, where we source our fruit and vegetables from often gets overlooked. But if our diets are ...
‘Clean meat’ is neither – we can and must do better
Faux meats may seem a tempting strategy for fixing the food system, but they are not progress, they are a distraction
Why our love for avocados is not sustainable
Avocados have become synonymous with millennial culture but the increasingly international trade of the South American fruit comes with a...
Why plant-based diets aren’t credible: Joanna Blythman at the Oxford Real Farming Conference
In this transcript of a talk from our session at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, Joanna Blythman talks about the nutritional and cult...
SFT signs open letter to Prime Minister to protect food and farming standards
The Sustainable Food Trust, along with 63 other farming, health and environmental organisations, has signed an open letter from the NFU t...
ORFC 2020: Linking Sustainable and Healthy Diets to Farming Outputs
In this debate at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2020, panelists discuss the future of UK farming, and what constitutes a sustainable...
In conversation: Patrick Holden and George Monbiot
Patrick Holden speaks to environmental campaigner and writer George Monbiot about the debate on land sharing versus land sparing and what...
ORFC 2020: Saving small abattoirs
In our session which took place at the Oxford Real Food Conference 2020 we explore the problems facing the sector and the urgent action t...
Loss of a small abattoir and a small farm future
Chris Smaje writes about why the loss of a small abattoir in Somerset is a step in the wrong direction if we are to create a resilient lo...
A farmer’s view of the Oxford Real Farming Conference
Small farmer Julie Baber writes following the Oxford Real Farming Conference about the inspiration to be found when a diverse group of pe...
Diversity and debate at the Oxford Real Farming Conference
Alicia Miller writes an overview of this year's Oxford Real Farming Conference, from sessions on social justice to debates about future d...
False claims and miracles from the new vegan religion
What we should eat to be healthy and produce a healthy planet has never been more unclear or hotly contested. A panel chaired by Sarah Sa...