Farming
‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan
Academic experts also criticise UN Food and Agriculture Organization for dismissing alternative proteins
Damian Carrington Environment editor
18, Mar, 2024 @10:00 AM
Calvinia review – jarringly nostalgic look at a South African childhood
Ran der Merwe’s documentary returns the director to the Northern Cape where he grew up, but glosses over trauma and injustice
Phuong Le
18, Mar, 2024 @7:00 AM
Britain is becoming a toxic chemical dumping ground – yet another benefit of Brexit | George Monbiot
Perhaps our government imagines bulldog spirit will protect us from the dangerous substances that Europe rules unsafe, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
George Monbiot
18, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM
Helen Rebanks: ‘Everyone in farming families knows how important the farmer’s wife is’
The author, artist and farmer’s wife tells how marmalade helped her find her literary voice – and why we can’t ignore the costs of processed foods
Tim Adams
17, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM
‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisis
A traditionally male-dominated industry is being quietly transformed by an influx of talent who don’t fit the stereotype
Alice Fisher
17, Mar, 2024 @9:00 AM
Let them eat snake: why python meat could soon be on the menu
Fancy a plate of fangers and mash? Some researchers say python farms on a commercial scale could provide sustainable alternative protein
Eden Gillespie
14, Mar, 2024 @4:00 PM
Farmers skip the middlemen to get a ‘better deal’ for higher quality produce
Rohan and Fiona Morris are part of a growing number of farmers ‘doing things differently’ by selling meat products directly from his farm
Aston Brown
13, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM
Legal action could end use of toxic sewage sludge on US crops as fertilizer
Intent to sue federal regulators charges they have failed to address dangerous levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ known to be in sludge
Tom Perkins
12, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future
Aishwarya Mohanty in Udaykani, Odisha
11, Mar, 2024 @10:44 AM
Calls for legal action after ‘unimaginable suffering’ filmed at Devon pig farm
Undercover crew finds cannibalism, untreated wounds and cramped and filthy conditions at Cross Farm
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
10, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM
Ammonia levels four times higher in Europe’s farming regions, study finds
Agriculture produces 80% of ammonia in air which forms particle pollution when it reacts with traffic emissions
Gary Fuller
08, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM
Empowering female cotton farmers could boost climate resilience | Letter
Letter: Addressing systemic inequalities in rural areas would increase yields as well as mitigate the effect of catastrophic weather, writes Alison Ward of CottonConnect
07, Mar, 2024 @6:39 PM
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