American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new data revealing more than 24,000 megafarms across the continent. In…
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When someone asks farmer Naiku Gaikwad about soil pollution in his village, he points to an abandoned 40-foot well filled…
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Donald Trump may have won the votes of the US’s most farming-dependent counties by an average of 78% in the…
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A group of influential MPs has urged the government to delay controversial planned changes to inheritance tax for farmers to…
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More than 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils are degraded due to intensive agriculture, with similar damage to about 40%…
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The fire that has just destroyed 500 hectares (1,230 acres) of Dartmoor should have been impossible. It should not be…
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“I really don’t like the word ‘paludiculture’ – most people have no idea what it means,” Sarah Johnson says. “I…
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About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals, researchers have estimated, with as many as 1.4…
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Britain’s rural communities could be “destroyed”, the former government food tsar has said, if ministers sign a US trade deal…
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Farmers fear they will no longer be able to afford to restore nature in England and reduce their carbon footprint…
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