Food & Farming

Vicki Hird, Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign at SustainWeb, discusses the ongoing hike in food prices in the UK.

Green peer Natalie Bennett outlines and analyses the 'tranche of announcements – and leaks – emanating from the new Government' in recent days.

Cllr Richard Nicholson highlights Haywards Heath Town Council’s signing of the Plant Based Treaty, calling on other Greens to follow suit.

Huddersfield Green Party member Nick Bowett provides an analysis of the Government’s Food Strategy – some areas of promise, but ultimately ‘unambitious'.

Huddersfield Green Party member Nick Bowett highlights the practice of ‘forest farming’, which works with nature, rather than against it.  

Green peer Natalie Bennett muses on the Government’s long-awaited but inadequate Food Strategy, which sweeps aside essential carbon-cutting measures.

Green Party member Lucy Phillip outlines the Eco Planning Law petition, calling for support to challenge the Government’s failure to protect our rapidly disappearing greenfields.

The county needs to ‘think strategically’ if it is to develop resilience to glocal challenges, says the Herefordshire Green Party.

Liz O’Neill, Director of GM Freeze, explains how gene editing is simply the newest iteration of genetic modification. As George Eustice ditches public protections, ignoring his own consul...

Change is going to happen much quicker than most realise, says Green Party member Dan Ward. As a result, the Green Party must anticipate the potential fallout from this, both positive and...

John Davis, Co-Chair Greens for Animal Protection, and Diana Newson, Co-Convenor for the Green Party Animal Rights Policy Working Group, outline the reasons why farming plant-based food c...

“Rather than fixating on veganism as being the answer to reducing the impacts of our food system we need to have a better understanding of the complexities of farming.” Director of Green ...

Rakesh Prashara and Greens of Colour committee member Dr Satnam Deuchakar explain why farmers continue to protest against new agriculture laws in India’s capital.

Protestors headed to Derbyshire this weekend to express anger at government plans to extend badger culling in areas where extensive badger vaccination programmes have been carried out. Em...

When swarms of billions of locusts descended on East Africa, it would appear strange that little to no attempt has been made in recent mainstream news and documentaries to explore the lin...

“The nanny state has done a very effective job of nurturing the profits of multinational manufacturers, supermarkets and tobacco companies, while doing a terrible job of protecting public...

The politics of food has been a long under-researched topic in the UK, though one that is becoming more and more relevant as Brexit approaches us. Natalie Bennett reviews Many Mouths: The...

“Rebuilding local production is an action which will simultaneously make us less vulnerable to the ever-growing vicissitudes of the deteriorating global climate as global just-in-time sup...

“The government’s rhetoric was definitely hiding a cat, indeed a whole pack of them. And the peers were determined to let it out of the bag.” Green peer Natalie Bennett reflects on the in...

“Sustainability is about ecology, but it is also about giving people decent-paying, physically safe, fulfilling careers they can do for decades, in any part of their working life.” Green ...