Top news of the week: 26.01.2023.
Does Pastoralism Have a Place in the Future of Food?
People have been herding animals for millennia. The author of ‘Hoofprints on the Land’ argues that, unlike industrial-scale animal operations, the approach plays a vital role in our ...
Despite economic uncertainty, agtech adoption is up for farmers around the world, says McKinsey
A new survey firm McKinsey also finds that farmers around the world still lag in terms of adding new sustainability practices to their operations.
Government failing to give farmers confidence in nature-friendly farming
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs set out the latest details for the Environmental Land Management Scheme yesterday. The environmental land management …
Green groups’ report puts pressure on Defra and ELM
A group of farmers and environmental organisations have formed a consensus for governments on a way forward for farming in the UK. It encourages
New Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment Launches, Ruth Richardson Named Executive Director
The UN Foundation announced the new Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA), to be led by Ruth Richardson as its inaugural Executive Director.
Post-Brexit farm subsidies in England revealed
Farmers will be eligible for funding for up to 280 actions that protect environment under new system
regen action
With Burns Night on the 25th January, The Duke of Cambridge’s yearly traditional dinner will be supplied by the Ethical Butcher’s regeneratively farmed meat and Hodmedods …
Puerto Rican Farmers Fight Climate Change That’s Destroying Them
Puerto Rico lost 80% of its coffee trees after Hurricane Maria. Just five years later, two more hurricanes threw a wrench in coffee farmers’ recovery.