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The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has become Europe’s problem child. Vested interests behind one of the Union’s oldest policies thr...

What is the future of protein, and of animal agriculture? Can we raise animals sustainably or should we move beyond meat? To feed a growi...

Everything begins with a seed. Seeds are both a story of loss and a story of hope in our food system. On the one hand, we are rapidly los...

2019 was the year of climate strikes. Animal rights activists, emboldened by a new wave of mass civil disobedience, are determined to end...

To transcend infighting in the food movement, finding our common ground is as important as targeting our common enemy.

The continued expansion of industrial-scale chemical-intensive agriculture around the world relies on one central powerful myth: only ind...

We are on the cusp of a post-antibiotic era. The golden age of miracle drugs may be coming to an end. To understand why, award-winning au...

Four grain trading giants - collectively known as the ABCDs - dominate international grain trade in our global food system. Knowing who t...

The global fertilizer market is a $200 billion industry. But who does it serve? Produced in large-scale, centralised facilities in develo...

When we stop treating dirt like dirt, when we accept it’s neither ‘dirt cheap’ nor ‘dirt poor’, we will come to realise it is the most pr...

The end of Capitalism is nigh. Or we should certainly hope so. Raj Patel makes a convincing case for the urgent need to think beyond capi...

Monsanto has been found guilty in the world’s first-ever court case over claims its Roundup herbicide causes cancer. It faces thousands o...

Are you a Wizard or a Prophet? Two largely forgotten 20th century thinkers – Norman Borlaug and William Vogt – continue to shape our comp...

What role can livestock play in a sustainable food system? In "Meat: A Benign Extravagance", Simon Fairlie lays out a convincing case as ...

The urban-rural divide is more pronounced than ever. The 'last acceptable prejudice' - that against rural people and places - is not only...

In this episode, we talk to Patrick Holden about the hopes and fears of British farming after Brexit. Patrick is a pioneer of the modern ...

Shifting mindsets at the grassroots level lies at the heart of The Art of Living’s approach to sustainable agriculture. An epidemic of fa...

Restaurants around the world are taking action against climate change by going carbon neutral. A new generation of chefs – the modern-day...

Farm subsidies are central to agricultural policy. But do farmers need them? In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of the EU Commo...

Is chocolate going ‘extinct’? Are we heading towards a ‘world without chocolate’? In this episode, we explore what lies behind these rece...