IT’S BEEN almost 10 years since the UK Government ran a public debate on GM food. With issues over food security, drought and a booming population intensifying, is the foodservice sector one of those asking for the technology to be given a second chance? David Burrows reports. Environmentalists are beginning to change their minds [...]
Farms of the future
By footprint on November 20, 2012
Published in: Comment, Features, Features, Foodservice News, Green Scene and tagged Al Gore, Bayer CropScience, Cafedirect, Coventry University, Dr Julia Whright, Dr Patricia Thornley, Elizabeth Bowles, European Food and Farming Partnership, Food Ethics Council, Food for Life Catering, Forum for the Future, Future of Food And Farming, Geoff Tansey, Jonathan Porritt, Julian Little, Mark Driscoll, Michael Bond, NFU, Peter Kendall, Professor Charles Godfray, Professor Sir John Beddington, Rachel Carson, Robert Frost, Robyn Kimber, Silent Spring, Soil Association, The Dailt Telegraph, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, WWF.
FIFTY YEARS ago this month the book Silent Spring kick-started the environmental movement and changed the way we grow our food. As climate change and population growth exert growing pressure, what will the next generation of farms look like? This month marks the 50th anniversary of [...]