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The vital role local authorities could have in shaping food systems
Jane Powell asks how local authorities can raise their game and start to shift the balance towards more local food resilience
Should we intensify agriculture to prevent future pandemics?
A recent article argued that the way to prevent future pandemics is to intensify agriculture. Lizzie Rowe explores why this is a misguide...
Episode Six: In conversation with John Humphrys
This week’s podcast features Patrick in conversation with journalist and broadcaster John Humphrys about how food systems have coped with...
Linking our diets with the outputs of sustainable farming in the UK
We update on work for our latest study which will estimate the food production outcomes of a nation-wide conversion to sustainable produc...
A perfect storm: COVID-19 hits rural America
Marianne Landzettel explores how COVID-19 is impacting the US industrial livestock sector, in particular the slaughtering and processing ...
A light at the end of the Covid tunnel?
Patrick Holden explores how coronavirus is affecting global food security and why our present industrialised and centralised food systems...
Farming as the climate changes: White Oak Pastures, Bluffton, Georgia
First in our farming and climate change series, we feature Will Harris of White Oak Pastures
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system?
The coronavirus has significantly impacted global food trade, we explore how countries are responding around the world and argue why a co...
Small farms, big solutions: The Ecological Land Cooperative helping new farmers
The Ecological Land Cooperative works to address the barriers that face new entrants to farming
Episode Five: In conversation with Will Harris
In this episode Patrick speaks to regenerative farmer Will Harris, based in the United States, in Bluffton, Georgia.
How to find local and sustainable food
We share five of our favourite websites that help you find local food during the Covid-19 crisis. They are working across the whole of th...
Episode Four: In conversation with Joel Salatin
In this episode Patrick speaks to American farmer and pioneer in regenerative agriculture, Joel Salatin, about local and resilient food s...