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Business and Food
‘Pesticide powerhouses’ and the future of farming
Fewer and fewer transnational businesses are dominating larger and larger sections of the food chain, raising serious concerns about the ...
Farmers’ markets play a vital role in America’s changing economy
The number of farmers' markets in America continues to grow. What is driving this growth? Can the answer be found in the country's broade...
Sustainability slogans: Genuine claims or food fraud?
In the absence of a clear definition of the word, corporations are defining sustainability in their own terms, leaving consumers to come ...
How do we measure the true costs of food production?
What are the methods for quantifying and monetising the true costs of food production and how these can influence farmers, policymakers a...
Investing in sustainable agriculture
Can strategic investments in market shares discourage intensive agriculture, therefore improving the economic climate for sustainable foo...
From grower to grocer: Building community food systems
What roles do the growing number of small food chains and alternative distribution networks play within the UK food sovereignty movement?
The True Cost of American Food
The SFT is pleased to announce a major conference on food system externalities, between 14th-17th April in San Francisco
If our small farms are allowed to wither, the whole nation will suffer
Patrick Holden warns that the demise of smallholder dairy farmers will deprive the country of skills that we can ill afford to lose
Eat the Week
This week: French farmers protests against falling prices, the ethics of meat and how Kerala is making the most of the organic farming re...
Supermarkets: Is it the end of empire?
Is it time to abandon the supermarket model altogether or do we need to simply reinvent it?
French food waste law clears first parliamentary hurdle
New legislation will require French supermarkets to donate unsold edible food but what about food waste elsewhere?
Milking it? Le grand dairy
With milk prices at an all time low, the first mega-dairy to open in France could threaten dairy farmers across Europe