Climate Change

African farmers, and others across the world, can learn how to advocate in hostile environments from each other, with many feeling their governments are acting against them.

A succession of storms have battered farming communities across the UK, with more than 2,000 claims already made to rural insurer NFU Mutual. 

With Storm Eunice set to be one of the worst storms to hit the country in the last three decades, farmers must make safety their top priority.

Farmers and rural communities are bracing themselves for extremely strong winds from Storm Eunice this weekend as the Met Office issued a rare Red Weather Warning.

News that financial support for farming will be prioritised by the Welsh Government has been welcomed by the sector, although concerns remain about how it will be delivered.

Farming groups have reacted with anger following decisions to ban meat products from council and school menus.

A row has broken out following the decision to create a commemorative woodland on prime Welsh farmland

Northern Ireland’s Agriculture Minister, Edwin Poots, has vowed to seek an exemption for agriculture from the country’s planned net zero by 2050 target.

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.

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.