Tag: Farming
Salvaging crops and tackling a broken food system: meet the ‘gleaners’
Across Britain, people are uniting to salvage unpicked produce. It’s a timely response to food poverty, farm waste and a broken food system
Agriculture Environment Food Society
Taste of the future? Vertical farming is finally growing up in the UK
Vertical farms can boost food security, reduce emissions and eliminate fertilisers – and they are springing up across the UK
Agriculture Environment Food
How a new seed gives Guatemalans a way out of hunger and bad health
Making everyday staples more nutritious is one way to tackle malnutrition. A new seed in Guatemala is doing just that
Agriculture Food Society
What would happen if all unused public spaces in the UK became community farms?
That’s the question a group of researchers tasked themselves with answering. Here they reveal their (surprising) results
Agriculture Environment Food Health
Seeds of the people: how communities are protecting the future of food
The pandemic has galvanised a new movement of growers and seed-savers: could this be the start of a fresh era of seed diversity?
Agriculture Environment Food Lifestyle Society Wellbeing
‘Land is worth more when left to nature’ – study
Conserving or restoring natural sites is nor more profitable than using them for farming and timber production, research suggests
Agriculture Conservation Environment Science World
