Politics

Expanding the global land area for conservation, a key approach to protecting biodiversity, could have an adverse impact on human health and food security in some parts of the world, according to new research.

Proponents of a large-scale move to organic farming in the UK have been issued with a warning as new research showed an EU switch is set to slash crop yields.

An unreliable supply of shipping containers in Scotland has allowed the Dutch to corner a lucrative seed potato market in North Africa.

The tenanted sector of agriculture brings together landowners and tenants to create and foster sustainable and profitable businesses with fair rental returns to landowners.

Industry has slammed ‘biased’ research which claims ending animal agriculture and planting trees on the empty fields is the ‘best and most immediate chance’ to slow climate change.

Industry has slammed biased research which claims ending animal agriculture and planting trees on the empty fields is the best and most immediate chance to slow climate change.

Insensitive and crass comments by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) regarding now being an opportune time to slim down the national pig herd got the short shrift they deserved.

Defra Secretary George Eustice has claimed lamb exports to the EU will return to pre-Brexit levels in future.

Fears the EU could place further restrictions on UK produce following the Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) have been raised by the British Veterinary Association.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) has urged the Government not to give Indian sugar access to the UK market, following a row over the country’s illegal subsidies to the sector.