Food and farming
Extreme weather can harm food production in many different ways. Drought leaving rice fields cracked and dry. Heavy rainfall flooding orange groves. ... Read More
“Fragmented governance” between biodiversity, climate change, food, water and health is putting all of those systems at risk, according to a majo... Read More
English farmers received tens of millions of pounds more in flood-relief funding in 2024 than in any year over the past decade, following intense rai... Read More
A global shift towards a diet that reduces “overconsumption” in meat and dairy products could cut 17% of global food emissions annually, new rese... Read More
Extreme weather is one of the primary drivers of crop failures around the world. Crop failures – the total or near-total loss of a farm or regio... Read More
Global food prices have seen huge fluctuations in recent years, soaring to record highs in 2022 before dropping in 2023 and rising again slowly this ... Read More
Denmark is on its way to introducing a world-first tax on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in 2030. Central to the proposals – an... Read More
Promises to improve the UK’s food security feature in the election manifestos that have been published ahead of the vote on 4 July. The Conserva... Read More
Spiking food prices have made headlines around the world this year, from eggs in the US to vegetables in India. The UN Food and Agriculture Organi... Read More
Nitrogen fertilisers, manure and other agricultural sources drove almost three-quarters of human-caused nitrous oxide emissions in recent years. T... Read More
More consistent refrigeration of foods as they move from one part of the supply chain to another could cut almost 2bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissi... Read More