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Tag Archives: Farming
Changes to UK food and farming to reach net zero less than those between 1940s-1980s says Prof Neil Ward
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
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged agri-food system, climate change, Farming, food, net zero, UK
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Vulnerability and resilience of Pacific Island food systems in the face of climate change
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
Posted in Interviews, Reports
Tagged Agriculture, climate change, diabetes, Farming, Fiji, food, forestry, Pacific Communities, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, vulnerability
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Pharma, food and innovation – time for a rethink, says Prof Graham Dutfield
Rules on intellectual property and other legal requirements affect food, farming, medicines, biodiversity and are changing the meaning of property. Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged biodiversity, Farming, food, Intellectual Property, medicines, patents, pharma
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We need a small farm future argues Chris Smaje
In this interview, Chris Smaje discusses his book ‘A Small Farm Future: making the case for a society built around local economies self-provisioning agricultural diversity and a shared earth’. He argues that multiple connected crises facing humanity require a rethink … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews
Tagged Agriculture, Chris Smaje, climate change, Commons, Farming
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Slavery lies behind today’s diets says historian James Walvin
What we eat and drink has a history. And when it comes to some ubiquitous things like sugar and coffee, as well as plantation-based commodities, slavery lies at the heart of that history. From his first book ‘A Jamaican Plantation: … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Uncategorized
Tagged coffee, colonialism, Europe, Farming, food, North America, plantations, racism, Slavery, South America, sugar, UK
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Trade Policy, The Right to Food & COVID-19 – and that’s just starters for Michael Fakhri, 4th Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Michael Fakhri was appointed as the UN’s 4th Rapporteur on the Right to Food in May 2020. In this conversation he talks candidly about his initial plans and the impact of COVID-19 on them. His first report, due in September … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged Agriculture, FAO, farm workers, farmers, Farming, food exports, food policy, food security, Food Systems Summit, Michael Fakhri, right to food, trade policy, WTO
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Over 50 countries spent over $700bn/year on farm support in 2017-19 says OECD. How? And what have responses to COVID-19 been?
Some 54 countries* collectively spent, on average, over $700bn a year supporting agriculture between 2017-19 according the over 500 page Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2020 from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – see Figure 1 below. … Continue reading
Compassionate #meat eating – less and better respecting sentient animals says Joyce D’Silva
About 20 years ago I was commissioned to edit a book based on the papers from the Compassion in World Farming’s (CIWF) 1998 conference ‘An Agriculture for the New Millennium – Animal Welfare, Poverty and Globalisation’. The result was The … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, CIWF, climate change, compssion in world farming, Farming, health, livestock, meat
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Ethics, ecological consciousness and rethinking #agriculture – a lot to digest at Turkish Agricultural and #Food #Ethics Association’s 2nd International Congress
A wide range of issues across food and farming were discussed at the 2nd International Agricultural and Food Ethics Congress organised by the Turkish Agricultural and Food Ethics Association. The congress was held on 24-25 October 2019 in Izmir, Turkey, … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Agriculture, ecology, environment, ethics, Farming, food, political institutions, technology, Turkey
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#Potatoes – Crop of the Future? A discussion with Prof Anton Haverkort
Forty years ago, when I was working in Turkey, I met another young man called Anton Haverkort, just setting out on his career. He grew up on a potato farm in the Netherlands, studied potatoes, and came to Turkey to … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged climate change, Farming, food security, genetics, India, plant breeding, potatoes, Russet Burbank, Rwanda
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