argiculture

Solasta Bio secures £1.3m backing to develop 'green' insecticides

Technology

Solasta Bio secures £1.3m backing to develop 'green' insecticides

Glasgow University spinout secures attracts investment to trial what it claims to be the 'world's first' nature-inspired bio-pesticide

clock 17 August 2021 • 2 min read
Radical shifts are needed in what we mean by farming and how we think about land

Supply chain

Radical shifts are needed in what we mean by farming and how we think about land

Food and agricultural systems need deep transformation, requiring nothing less than fundamental reframing of what land and ‘farming’ means to businesses, argues Forum for the Future's Caroline Ashley

clock 16 August 2021 • 5 min read
Greggs bakes 100 per cent Fairtrade cocoa commitment into supply chain

Supply chain

Greggs bakes 100 per cent Fairtrade cocoa commitment into supply chain

High street bakery chain claims move will improve incomes for cocoa farmers and assist the fight against climate change

clock 12 August 2021 • 2 min read

Supply chain

Pathways to Dairy Net Zero: UN-backed initiative secures dairy and livestock sector support

Initiative calls on the entire global dairy supply chain to join the movement towards net zero before 2050

clock 27 July 2021 • 2 min read

Policy

Defra must provide a clear strategy and vision for net zero agriculture

Defra can meet the appetite of government hunger for net zero strategies by making the most of low hanging fruit, writes CCm Technologies' Pawel Kisielewski

clock 10 May 2021 • 3 min read

Biodiversity

Zoom in on Net Zero - with UCL sustainable agriculture expert Dr Carole Dalin

VIDEO: Principal research fellow at UCL's Institute for Sustainable Resources chats to James Murray about decarbonising agriculture and food

clock 07 May 2021 • 1 min read

Supply chain

Heck Foods to experiment with vertically-farmed crops for vegan range

Sausage and burger brand teams up with Vertical Future to build bespoke indoor farm at its headquarters in North Yorkshire

clock 03 February 2021 • 2 min read

Net Zero Now

Net Zero Festival: Vertical farming - food for thought in a net zero world?

VIDEO: In the first of three Glimpses reports looking at potential net zero gamechangers, BusinessGreen looks at the role for vertical farming in delivering a more sustainable food system

clock 09 October 2020 • 1 min read

Carbon Accounting

Carbon charging is a huge cost opportunity for UK agriculture

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture

clock 21 September 2020 • 4 min read

Supply chain

Farmers fear climate crisis will have greater impact on their business than coronavirus

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers

clock 01 July 2020 • 3 min read