Agriculture

In this conversation, Priscilla Claeys and Benoît Biteau discuss how sustainable local food systems can protect food security globally.

Russia’s war on Ukraine marks a tipping point for a deeply unequal and flawed global food system.

Meat products grown in a laboratory could soon be widely available but is this something environmentalists should welcome and support?

By increasing the carbon in soil, farmers could play a key role in offsetting emissions on a massive scale, making agriculture key to solving climate change.

An anti-speciesist vision calls for a radical rethinking of our relationship to animals and an end to the idea of “responsible” livestock farming.

We spoke to Linda Gaasch and Claude Gruffat on why Europe needs a fairer and healthier model centred on the needs of farmers, consumers and the environment.

An agroecological Europe could be the answer to a food system that’s bad for our health and damaging to our environment.

The moment is now to redefine our food systems around principles of sustainability and justice.

LIFE projects in the Netherlands offer pointers on how public policy can redress the balance between farming and biodiversity.

The EU may be reopening rules on genetically modified food with serious implications for small farmers, consumers and the climate.