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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...
We need Government help to save small abattoirs
Yesterday we heard from speakers at the Oxford Real Farming Conference about the crisis facing our local meat supply as small abattoirs c...
Films on food, farming and climate for the new year
There’s been a spate of great films over the last year which examine the issues and concerns of food and farming and how we negotiate the...
Project update: An international framework for measuring on-farm sustainability
The SFT’s work in exploring the external costs of food and farming, has led us to the realisation that we need a common approach to measu...
The future of wheat
How do we move towards wheat varieties that work better in sustainable farming? And what changes need to happen at a systems level to sup...