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Janet Dwyer awarded OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours List

ORC Trustee Professor Janet Dwyer has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022

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Are we finally rolling the agroforestry log over the crest of the hill?

This year’s face to face annual Farm Woodland Forum meeting focuses on the increased adoption and expansion of agroforestry in the UK and Ireland.

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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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