
Land sharing and land sparing: We need food in harmony with nature
Patrick Holden shares his thoughts on the land sparing versus land sharing debate, calling for fa...
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What harmonising trade in our food systems could do
Patrick Holden argues why every nation in the world should sign up to a new harmonised framework ...
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Harmony, health and COVID-19
What is health? Is it merely the absence of disease? Our CEO Patrick Holden reflects on what we c...
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A light at the end of the Covid tunnel?
Patrick Holden explores how coronavirus is affecting global food security and why our present ind...
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Reflecting on a changing world
Patrick Holden reflects on a busy week, both on his farm in West Wales and in the many meetings, ...
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Covid-19 and the crisis facing artisan cheesemakers
Covid-19 is having a catastrophic impact on many small-scale cheesemakers. Patrick Holden talks a...
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The coronavirus pandemic and future food security
Patrick Holden writes about the impact of the coronavirus on food security and the need for a sus...
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Compassion in dairy farming
Patrick Holden opens up about farming on his West Wales organic dairy farm
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Patrick Holden in conversation with Eliot Coleman
Eliot Coleman in conversation with Patrick Holden at the Oxford Real Farming Conference
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Harmony in Food and Farming: Q&A with Patrick Holden
In this Q&A, Sustainable Food Trust CEO Patrick Holden explains the inspiration behind our upcomi...
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Is eating no meat actually doing more harm than good?
In this opinion piece published by Farm Drop, SFT CEO Patrick Holden explains why diets such as v...
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Back to the land
In the early 1970s Patrick Holden and a group of like minded friends moved to a hill in Wales to ...
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GM orthodoxy
Patrick Holden explains his own position on Genetically Modified crops and comments on the steady...
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Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
Read Patrick Holden’s contribution to this newly published book which includes entries from the D...
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Grass from the past
This Guardian article featuring pioneers of the organic movement, Patrick Holden and Peter Segger...
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Health, food and well-being
Patrick Holden looks at the meaning of well-being through the prism of food, farming and health
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Patrick Holden: In his own words
In his own words: Patrick Holden, Executive Director of the SFT, talks industrial farming, engagi...
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Opinion: Patrick Holden on campaigns to reduce meat consumption
In this opinion piece for the Farmers Guardian, Patrick Holden expresses concern about the uninte...
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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 ski...
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Meditations on milk
Patrick Holden on how his connection to his farm and dairy herd informs his thinking on transitio...
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Mixed farming systems: Feeding the birds
In this latest blog from Patrick Holden, he looks at the benefits of mixed farming systems on the...
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Our dandelion summer
Patrick Holden responds to the State of Nature report released this week and reflects on the bene...
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Pastoralist communities vs safari parks
Patrick Holden reflects upon his inspiring and emotional trip to Kenya, visiting pastoralist comm...
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Population debate: Why the Pope needs encouragement, not criticism
In response to Jonathan Porritt's article on overpopulation, Patrick Holden makes the case for a ...
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Redesigning food systems
How do we build a global food network? Patrick addresses the lack of stability caused by our curr...
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SFT – Proposals for 2012
Read about the most important actions Patrick Holden is committed to, in order to further the mis...
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SFT Christmas update
A message from our Chief Executive, Patrick Holden, with a review of our work and progress during...
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Sacred earth, sacred self
Patrick Holden and Owsley Brown discuss why our connection to the Earth is key to understanding t...
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Six steps back to the land
Patrick Holden welcomes a new guide for would-be farmers, Six Steps Back to the Land, and recalls...
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Soil is the stomach of the plant
In this International Year of Soils, Patrick Holden shares his personal journey towards understan...
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Spring has sprung
How do farms cope with our unpredictable weather? Patrick Holden shares his elation at the first ...
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Stomachs and soils
Patrick Holden reflects on the implications of our new understanding of the human microbiome for ...
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TB and badgers
In the context of being a dairy farmer and dealing directly with Bovine TB, Patrick Holden shares...
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The power of the W.I.
Patrick Holden considers the power of the Women's Institute as an unstoppable force for change by...
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The price of milk
In response to the shocking state of the UK's dairy industry, Patrick Holden calls for the introd...
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The true cost of cheap food
Patrick Holden examines the true cost of a cheap chicken and asks what can be done to rebalance o...
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The tsunami is coming
How stable are our food systems? Patrick Holden assesses the larger implications an economic coll...
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United in diversity
Patrick Holden, Founder of the Sustainable Food Trust, speaks from Rio +20, the United Nations Co...
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What would a ban on glyphosate mean for farming?
As the controversy around glyphosate continues, the Sustainable Food Trust's Patrick Holden and R...
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Winter weather
How do small farms cope when the winter weather closes in? Patrick Holden reflects on the impact ...
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