Category: News and events

BIOFACH – the World´s leading trade fair for organic food is back! The organic trade meets at the organic exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany and online from 26 – 29 July 2022.

Come celebrate 10 years of making on-farm research a reality After a decade of hard work, the Innovative Farmers network has changed the face of agricultural innovation in the UK. Together with the support of…

Defra’s Food Strategy White Paper fails to acknowledge or address the breadth of issues facing the food system

ORC Trustee Professor Janet Dwyer has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022

This year’s face to face annual Farm Woodland Forum meeting focuses on the increased adoption and expansion of agroforestry in the UK and Ireland.

GM tomato won’t address the problem of vitamin D deficiency because poor nutrition is a function of poverty and a broken food system says GM Freeze

OF&G (Organic Farmers & Growers) has expressed serious concern over Defra’s introduction of their Genetic Technology Bill that received its first reading in Parliament today.

We would like to thank everybody who supported our Climate Friendly Farming appeal

The Land SKills Fair is LWA’s largest major gathering and will provide a space for upskilling for the agroecological transition as well as growing a diverse and people centred farming movement.

Further to the 6 regional workshops run by the Agroforestry ELM Test team in late 2021-early 2022 that have already fed into the design process of agroforestry options for ELM, Defra have asked the team…

Are you a farmer or someone interested in the value of diverse/herbal leys and how best to manage them in a farming system? Come and visit Yatesbury House Farm where herbal leys have been used…

IFOAM Organics Europe position paper on carbon farming. Finding synergies between climate action and biodiversity protection

Chicken is the UK’s favourite meat. We farm a billion birds each year. Almost all of them are housed in industrial units and fed a diet of imported soya.

Join Agromix’s #AskAScientist Challenge to have your questions answered by a panel of expert scientists in an open live-streamed session within EURAF’s 6th European Agroforestry Conference

22nd April is Earth Day 2022 – a global call to action while there is still time to solve the climate crisis.  Time to choose both a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature…

Organic and You(th): Together for sustainable food systems Organics Europe Youth Event in a nutshell The Organic Europe’s Youth Event (OEYE), taking place on 31 August-1 September in Frick, Switzerland, is an event for youth…

Join Emma Hague, Rosie Bristow and Sofi Thanhauser in this LWA webinar to discuss our fibre industry and what the future holds.

Are you farming in England? Have your voice heard on agroforestry! This short survey will help us target relevant information on agroforestry to the right farmers and make agroforestry really happen in England.

OF&G (Organic Farmers & Growers) has published its manifesto ‘Championing organic within agricultural policy’ to highlight the key advantages of the organic approach in response to the unprecedented transitional upheaval in the farming sector.

For over four decades the Organic Research Centre has been discovering and developing nature-friendly farming practices based on organic principles of health, ecology, fairness and care, with research findings not only benefitting the organic community,…

In the latest episode of BBC one’s flagship countryside programme Countryfile, they cover the potential for regenerative farming in the UK.

Help us to identify indicators that can capture the provisioning of ecosystem services by farming systems, in particular those with a focus on biodiversity, human nutrition and social well-being.

BASIS organic farming course – 14 – 17 June 2022

Local social to bring together people from our local agroecology community; to connect, share ideas and seeds! Building on interest from the Landworkers Alliance Winter Social in December and Kernow Real Farming Conference in January…