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BrewDog's Dead Forest and the dead-hand of Scotland's forestry grants system https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/04/14/brewdogs-dead-forest-and-the-dead-hand-of-scotlands-forestry-grants-system/

Giles Yeo: Fears about ultra processed foods are just for the chattering classes https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/whats-on/giles-yeo-fears-about-ultra-processed-foods-are-just-for-th-9357948/

Ultra-processed foods: largest ever review shows many ill effects on health – how to understand the evidence https://theconversation.com/ultra-processed-foods-largest-ever-review-shows-many-ill-effects-on-health-how-to-understand-the-evidence-224806

The state of sustainable farming in the UK https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/the-state-of-sustainable-farming-in-the-uk

Authors of this blog post: Chaturangi Wickramaratne (IWMI), Sarah Jones (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Christine Lamanna (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Matthias Geck (CIFOR-ICRAF) The need for a paradigm shift in agriculture is becoming increasingly evident. High-input, simplified or intensive agricultural farms and landscapes fail to achieve food and nutritional security or provide resilience to global shocks, such as […]

Agronomy for Sustainable Development https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-023-00908-6

We are a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers with a mission to improve the livelihoods of our members and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.

There’s real work of transformative adaptation to do to rise to present challenges – unsung, grassroots and local.

Food, Planet, Health: Moving towards healthy, inclusive, and nature-positive food systems. https://www.foodsystemeconomics.org

Counting the hidden cost of «cheap food» https://www.bioecoactual.com/en/2024/01/10/counting-the-hidden-cost-of-cheap-food/

Estimated micronutrient shortfalls of the EAT–Lancet planetary health diet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00006-2/abstract

Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w

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Narrated by Kate Winslet, ‘Eating Our Way to Extinction,’ a Cinematic Feature Documentary addresses the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about....

‘They live absolutely horrible lives’: RSPCA vows to reform treatment of chickens in UK https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/06/rspca-vows-reform-absolutely-horrible-treatment-poultry-uk

Billions of animals are slaughtered every year — just to be wasted https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22890292/food-waste-meat-dairy-eggs-milk-animal-welfare

Sitopia look through the lens of food, putting food in the center of our thinking Carolyn Steel https://resiliencefoodstories.com/story/sitopia-look-through-the-lens-of-food-carolyn-steel/