The UK Food Group is holding its annual members’ meeting on July 25th at the premises of the Brooke between 10:30-16:00. This year’s theme is “Beyond the EU:Britain’s impact on local food systems of the Global South”. Professor Michel Pimbert, Director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience of Coventry Univerisity will give the keynote Read more about UK Food Group Annual Meeting[…]

Sustain’s new briefing presents principles and policies that would deliver better food and farming when the UK  leaves the European Common Agriculture Policy. It recommends that the next Government should retain taxpayer support for farmers post-Brexit, but replace the old two pillar EU system with a new four-part deal for farming based on payments for public Read more about New Sustain’s briefing on post-Brexit farming[…]

Marking the International Day for Biological Diversity, Compassion in World Farming’s will launch a new campaign, STOPTHEMACHINE at London’s Natural History Museum on Monday 22 May.   STOPTHEMACHINE will demonstrate how lands and waters once teeming with life are now over-farmed, over-fished and denuded to feed billions of farm animals crammed into cruel factory farms. Informed Read more about Stopping the factory farming machine[…]

The Landworkers’ Alliance launched its post-Brexit agriculture policy recommendations outside Defra’s offices in London on Friday 21st April. Featuring a dining table promoting the high-quality fresh produce of its members, the launch highlighted the need for small-scale and family farmers to be offered a ‘place at the table’ in upcoming negotiations over the future of UK Read more about Landworkers’ Alliance launches post-Brexit Agriculture Policy recommendations[…]

Over 80 organisations have signed a letter to David Davis and Theresa May to stress the important implications of Brexit on food and farming. With many of the UK’s food and farming policies and subsidies being defined at EU level, the UK government now has an opportunity to reshape these to ensure that taxpayers money Read more about Brexit government urged to take control of food, farming and fisheries for public good.[…]

How can we get investment that primarily improves food provision and livelihoods instead of just increasing corporate profit, that supports ecological and biodiverse production rather than degrading the environment, that is based in land and seed rights not in dispossessing them? How can we ensure that small-scale food producers and those most vulnerable to hunger Read more about Investing in agriculture for food sovereignty[…]