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Soils’ vital role in climate change, biodiversity and sustainable farming – a conversation with Prof Pete Smith

Posted on 5 July 2022 by Geoff Tansey

When I was young there was a BBC radio comedy programme with a character whose catchphrase was ‘the answer lies in the soil’*. When it comes to climate change, biodiversity and sustainable farming systems we now realise that yes, a … Continue reading →

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The multiple roles for agriculture, forestry and other land use change in mitigating climate change – findings from latest IPCC report, interview with Dr Jo House

Posted on 8 April 2022 by Geoff Tansey

The latest almost 3000 page full report on Mitigation of Climate Change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just landed. Here Dr Jo House, Reader in Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Bristol, and a … Continue reading →

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Cutting the harms #agriculture does, GHG emissions and increasing #resilience – some key priorities for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Posted on 1 February 2022 by Geoff Tansey

The US-based, non-profit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has aimed to foster sustainable rural communities and regions for over 30 years. Here, its Executive Director, Dr Sophia Murphy outlines their key priorities. These include cutting the harm industrial agriculture … Continue reading →

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Protecting biodiversity for food systems in the face of climate change 

Posted on 18 January 2022 by Geoff Tansey

Biodiversity, food systems and climate change are inextricably linked. The recent COP26 on climate change in Glasgow got worldwide coverage but it was sandwiched between the two-part COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming China – which has … Continue reading →

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Changes to UK food and farming to reach net zero less than those between 1940s-1980s says Prof Neil Ward

Posted on 11 January 2022 by Geoff Tansey

Prof Neil Ward* argues the changes needed for climate change mitigation in agriculture in the UK are less dramatic than those between the 1940-1980s but more challenging owing to the different neo-liberal ideology prevailing now. We discuss the changes instigated … Continue reading →

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Food system change and animal agriculture missing in Glasgow Climate Pact at COP 26

Posted on 19 November 2021 by Geoff Tansey

One of the most disappointing things about the outcome of the Glasgow Climate Summit – COP 26 – is that there is no mention of food, farming or agriculture in the final text of the main Glasgow Pact. Yet for … Continue reading →

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Stop eating to extinction and maintain food biodiversity says Dan Saladino

Posted on 29 October 2021 by Geoff Tansey

Dan Saladino’s written an engrossing account of some of the world’s rarest foods in ‘Eating to Extinction: The world’s Rarest Food and Why We Need to Save Them‘. In this conversation he discusses why, tells some of the stories and … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability and resilience of Pacific Island food systems in the face of climate change

Posted on 10 September 2021 by Geoff Tansey

I’m grateful to an old Fijian friend of mine for linking me up with Dr Mary Taylor. She was a lead editor for an exhaustive 573 page book on the ‘Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry to climate change’. … Continue reading →

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Four key words for the UN #FoodSystems Summit – power, control, risks, benefits.

Posted on 30 July 2021 by Geoff Tansey

There’s a veritable avalanche of reports, webinars and meetings around food systems at the moment. From the locally focussed National Food Strategy for England and Proposals for Sustainable Food Systems in Ireland (download report here), to the UN Food and … Continue reading →

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Safeguarding biodiversity for food and agriculture needed urgently

Posted on 22 June 2021 by Geoff Tansey

Global biodiversity is severely threatened, including that which we depend upon for food, Continue reading →

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