In Conversation: Food After Fossil Fuels
While its slice of the overall energy pie may seem relatively low, the modern American food system is figuratively awash in fossil fuels.
Food & Water
Of Wessex and Londinium: a Tale of Two City-States
From the furies of Brexit, let me turn to a saner and more achievable political project: restructuring Britain into a neo-peasant society.
The Doldrums of Summer
There is a moment that comes every year, usually about this time, when the heat and humidity kills all ambition on the farm.
Are you anti-science if you don’t like GMOs?
If you oppose something produced as a result of scientific research, does that make you anti-science? GMO critics are often accused of this, but the accusation is really a smokescreen.
How Much Should Food Cost?
Nothing illustrates the weirdness, injustice, and unpleasantness of the present economy more clearly than the misdirected attempts of government to reduce the price of food.
Monofloral and Manuka Honey: Honey-Hunting the Honeybee to its Demise, With Love
Are monofloral honeys all they’re cracked up to be, or are they yet another empty money-making scheme, exposing vulnerable honeybees to the toxic environments of monocultures?
Blockchains Could Help Restore Trust in the Food we Choose to Eat
Companies around the world are exploring blockchain, the technology underpinning digital currency bitcoin. In this Blockchain unleashed series, we investigate the many possible use cases for the blockchain, from the novel to the transformative.
The Uncertain Future for Food and Farming in the UK
Following the referendum result in favour of the UK leaving the EU, the Sustainable Food Trust and 83 others organisations came together to express their hopes and fears for the future of food and farming.
The Masumoto Family Farm
The Masumoto Family farm is the farm we have in our minds, the bucolic family-owned slice of Americana straight out of central casting
The EU Wants to Block Romania’s 51% Local Food Shift. Who Cares?
Amid all the mayhem and turmoil of recent weeks, here’s a news story you may have missed.
The Rise of the Supermarkets
The origins of the supermarket are steeped in social purpose.
The Global Farm Land Grab in 2016: How Big, How Bad?
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
