Articles
Farming
A labourious crisis
We explore the challenges and possibilities for the horticulture industry
Veg producers to the ready!
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected vegetable growers? Alicia Miller writes about her organic veg box business and how they are cop...
The coronavirus pandemic and future food security
Patrick Holden writes about the impact of the coronavirus on food security and the need for a sustainable, local food system
Securing a healthy future through horticulture
Fruit and vegetables make up our biggest trade deficit when it comes to food – surely, it’s time we started growing more on British soil?
Why dairy farmers have become commodity slaves
Patrick Holden argues why intensification of the dairy industry is entirely the wrong direction
In conversation: Patrick Holden and Henry Dimbleby
In this short film, Patrick Holden speaks to National Food Strategy Independent Lead, Henry Dimbleby, about making sustainable farming pay
Regenerative farming in Palestine for social and ecological resilience
Mohammed Ruzzi is manager of the Palestine Fair Trade Association and will be visiting the UK for Fairtrade Fortnight at the end of Febru...
Blazing new trails beyond the bushfires
The bushfires and climate extremes in Australia have devastated farmland and killed millions of animals, prompting new discussion about t...
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2020
Follow the links for films, write ups and press releases from the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2020
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...
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...
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...