Category: News and events

Baking guru Andrew Whitley with some rather special bread in his kitchen…

As climate change starts to bite, the advantages of agroforestry become increasingly obvious

Carbon emissions aren’t going down, industries aren’t switching to clean energy technology

Organic Advisory Service Information

After several false dawns the new EU Regulation

The recent vote in the European Parliament for a maximum GM contamination level in EU organic products of 0.1% should be welcomed as a success…

How much organic land in Europe

Try something new today, says Sainsbury’s – but not organic carrots

MRSA superbug threat to human health from infected farm animals

Brussels takes pride in its new organic regulation

The real expense of supermarket veg

What lessons has Bernard Matthews learned from the outbreak of H5N1 avian flu in his Suffolk turkeys.

How sustainable are biofuels? Politicians love them, conservationists have a different view.

It’s official – biofuels are taking over as the main growth driver for agricultural demand. So says the world’s leading investment bank Goldman Sachs.

A new mantra is sweeping the City of London, says Organic Research Centre director Lawrence Woodward – “Green is the new black”. Incredibly, key investors and opinion formers are ready to swallow such ideas that “Tesco is helping to set the pace in the fight against climate change”.

Honesty call for info on GM potato trials

Professor Bill McKelvey of the Scottish Agricultural College thinks a future hungry world cannot be fed by organic agriculture.

Collapsing colonies – Are GM crops killing bees?

How good are organic box schemes

German vets call for FMD preventive vaccination