Summer Reading 2022: Book Reviews
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Are you looking for a summer read? We share some of our favourite recent food and farming books.
Considering Regenesis: A Perspective from the Sustainable Food Trust
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Despite these criticisms, Regenesis is a valuable book. It challenges us to think outside the box, presents at least some of the dilemmas with which it wrestles in an even-handed way and introduces us to a technology we may hear more about in future, whether we like it or not.
Sustainable Food Trust plan for national food security
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
The Sustainable Food Trust’s new report, Feeding Britain from the Ground Up, finds that, if we change the way we farm and what we eat, we could improve our health, protect nature, combat climate change and be more food secure as a nation.
Is ammonia from green hydrogen a false prophet?
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Recognising the damage caused by synthetic fertiliser, the SFT and others in the sustainable farming sector have long been advocating a switch toward more agroecological farming systems.
What role for livestock in climate-friendly farming?
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
When choosing what to eat, it is important to consider where and how it has been grown. Buying locally, seasonally or direct from producers is often a good way to ensure you know the true story of the food you are eating.
Media briefing: Farming can be a climate change solution, so why is it missing in action at COP26?
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Sustainable farming systems that work in harmony with nature have an essential role to play and farmers want to be part of the movement for change.
Bristol Food Producers: Who feeds us?
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
This project, run by Bristol Food Connections, aims to reconnect people with our rural hinterland by introducing some of the farmers and food producers in and around Bristol, capturing the stories of the people who feed us and why they farm, what their life as a farmer is like, and how COVID-19 has impacted them as producers.
Food and farming reads of 2021
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
We share some of the most interesting reads from the past year, on everything from toxic weedkillers to bringing back beavers.