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Business and Food
Are city start-ups a help or hindrance to local food?
In the last few decades, there has been a quiet revolution in food as more farmers have increasingly sold their produce direct to the pub...
Campaign for Local Abattoirs: Response to Defra Health and Harmony Command Paper
The Campaign for Local Abattoirs submits their response to the Defra Health and Harmony command paper consultation
Press release: Government action urgently needed to save small abattoirs
At the Future of UK Farming conference an expert panel explained why the continuing decline of small abattoirs is bad for animal welfare ...
Seed and the Commons
Global seeds reserves are under threat. Helen Schulze looks into the Open Source Seeds Initiative, one of the innovative projects and mov...
First it was fake farms, now fake bakeries?
Real Bread Campaign coordinator Chris Young asks: is a supermarket selling an industrial loaf under the name of a long-closed regional ba...
Fake meat: Impossibly hard to swallow
Joanna Blythman, a renown investigator of the unpronounceable ingredients in processed food, has a look at the newest arrival in fake meat
The anonymity of fresh food: How much can you find out about what you eat? (Part two)
We experience a barrage of information when we buy food. But in and amongst the noise, how much do we actually get told about where our f...
Steps to sustainability: Stroud’s Fungusloci converts coffee waste into gourmet mushrooms
Fungusloci is a mushroom micro-farm growing gourmet oyster mushrooms on spent coffee grounds collected from local independent cafés
Eating local in Bristol: Working together
From city-wide groups working to bring about policy-level change, to small collectives of growers working together, these are the people ...
Is diversification the way forward for farming?
Farmers are increasingly being encouraged to diversify into new areas in order to generate additional income. But if diversification is r...
Eating local in Bristol: From farm to table
In the second article in a series about eating local in Bristol, Steph Wetherell the variety of different routes available to producers; ...
How Farmdrop is bringing convenience to a sustainable food system
The way we shop for food is changing, and the way farmers sell their produce is meeting this change head-on with companies like Farmdrop ...