Tag: Economy

Back to nature…

The rise and rise of the organic farming movement over the past century.

Buffett lunch blows The Fat Duck out of the water

The Fat Duck’s prices are dwarfed by the bid price for a charity lunch with the world’s second richest person.

Love Your Leftovers

Modern life is rubbish

Food wastage has reached alarming proportions. It’s time to do something about it.

Organics – a load of bull?

A discussion about whether organic food really is better than conventionally farmed food.

Pie in the sky?

Not Delia takes a look at the vertical farms advocated by Columbia University’s Dickson Despommier and considers whether they’re (a) feasible and (b) viable.

Pigs Are Worth It Campaign

Several top chefs throw their weight behind a campaign to support British pig farmers in crisis.

Save Our Sprays?

The EU plans to change the rules on pesticides, herbicides, fungicides – to the dismay of many UK farmers. But is Farmers Weekly’s petition the right way to express that dismay?

Supermarkets

A discussion about “progress” and how people shop for food in the UK and abroad.

Too much wine gives Australians headache

Australia has over-produced 100 million cases of wine

Water out of fish…

Overfishing is depleting the world’s fish stocks to scarcity levels. What can be done about it?

Wozza’s wonga woes

Antony Worrall Thompson lambasts the banks for refusing to ease his business’s cashflow problems in the traditionally slow first quarter of the year.