How to Reclaim the Foodchain from the Supermarkets and Benefit both Farmers and Consumers

In July 2000 Anthony Davison started BigBarn at Alconbury Weston in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. Now the enterprise is thriving – and showing how farmers and consumers together can start to … Read on →

Organic polyculture Sixteenth-Century style – and the tale of a famine

D. S. Donaldson catches echoes from the past at the Oxford Real Farming Conference Professor Martin Wolfe’s account of ‘polyculture’ and ‘agroforestry’ at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, not … Read on →

The Incomparable Insight of Thomas Hardy

He was, says D. S. DONALDSON in this piece, one of the greatest of all commentators on traditional agriculture and the varying fortunes of the people who practiced it For me, the … Read on →

The Promise of Plant Biotechnology – The Threat of Genetically Modified Organisms

The author wishes to point out that this article was written in 2000. Thus  ”While 99% of what I wrote remains true, there have been some advances in the past … Read on →

Livestock emissions: how the EBLEX roadmap proposes that GHG emissions should be reduced

The UK has committed to a 20% reduction in green house gas emissions by 2020. Livestock is seen to be a major culprit and an easy target to help achieve … Read on →