Sustainable Farming

Over 150 British farmers have written to Defra Secretary George Eustice demanding that the Government immediately rolls out the Landscape Recovery and Local Nature Recovery schemes, both part of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.

The five-year Farm Net Zero project aims to investigate the contribution agriculture can make to achieve the net zero target. Rebecca Jordan visits one of the farms taking part.

A blanket approach by the Government to decarbonise rural heating in favour of electric heat technologies will unfairly penalise farm businesses.

Demands to protect consumers and to impose a windfall tax to prevent companies cashing in on the growing fuel crisis have this week been issued by rural groups.

NFU Scotland has received a bashing from farming environmentalists and industry organisations over its Environmental Focus Area (EFA) derogation call. 

As a country 85 per cent reliant on food imports, primarily from the US, Antigua and Barbuda is focusing on food security, but climate change and Covid-19 is making this no mean feat. Alice Dyer reports.

Delays in the rollout of the Government’s Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs) are down to a deliberate policy of ‘listening, learning and improving’, Defra has revealed.

Landlords resuming land from tenants to plant trees under a disputed notice to quit will not be eligible for funding through the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), Defra has confirmed.

The UK Government in England is lagging behind its Welsh and Scottish counterparts with its ‘complex’ farm carbon methodology, sparking calls for investment to improve the framework.

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.