From crisis to healthy farming and food systems

Crisis, Farming & Community

In 2001, the UK was hit by Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) precipitating one of the biggest crises ever to affect the UK farming system. The crisis unfolded as a series of information and communication problems, from government to farmers and from farmers to farmers, with consequences for action in a time of crisis, social support, and the maintenance of community. What happens to a farming commun...

Vertical integration: farming systems in food chain

This workshop will discuss research based experiences of the changed conditions that farming systems face within the whole food chain. Therefore it will focus on the environmental, social and economic impacts of different food chains and the challenges and opportunities offered by diverse quality schemes and standard setting organisation at the world level as well as the certification tools imp...

Ukraine War and Food Crisis

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“Healthy Food” from Healthy Cows

Food from Earth: Sustainable Farming in Action

The banana is the world's largest herbaceous flowering plant. Commercial bananas are sterile and are propagated by planting root stock from donor plants (the dark specks in the center of a banana are undeveloped ovules, the precursors to seeds).