Category: News and events

We need system change not GM ketchup

GM tomato won’t address the problem of vitamin D deficiency because poor nutrition is a function of poverty and a broken food system says GM Freeze

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GM is not the answer

OF&G (Organic Farmers & Growers) has expressed serious concern over Defra’s introduction of their Genetic Technology Bill that received its first reading in Parliament today.

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Thank you! Appeal success!

We would like to thank everybody who supported our Climate Friendly Farming appeal

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The Land Skills Fair

The Land SKills Fair is LWA’s largest major gathering and will provide a space for upskilling for the agroecological transition as well as growing a diverse and people centred farming movement.

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ELM agroforestry standards design and validation workshops

Further to the 6 regional workshops run by the Agroforestry ELM Test team in late 2021-early 2022 that have already fed into the design process of agroforestry options for ELM, Defra have asked the team…
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Understanding diverse leys: establishment, persistence, carbon, economics

Are you a farmer or someone interested in the value of diverse/herbal leys and how best to manage them in a farming system? Come and visit Yatesbury House Farm where herbal leys have been used…
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EU Organic Movement calls for a systemic approach to carbon farming

IFOAM Organics Europe position paper on carbon farming. Finding synergies between climate action and biodiversity protection

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Stop Poison Poultry

Chicken is the UK’s favourite meat. We farm a billion birds each year. Almost all of them are housed in industrial units and fed a diet of imported soya.

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#AskAScientist Challenge

Join Agromix’s #AskAScientist Challenge to have your questions answered by a panel of expert scientists in an open live-streamed session within EURAF’s 6th European Agroforestry Conference

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ORC Climate Friendly Farming Campaign Launch 

22nd April is Earth Day 2022 – a global call to action while there is still time to solve the climate crisis.  Time to choose both a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature…
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