food security

Major consultation exercise aims to shape new strategy to ensure UK delivers on food security, clean energy, nature, and housing goals, but government promises it 'will not tell people what to do'

The Wildlife Trusts new briefing calls on the government to show urgent leadership to protect farming, food security, and nature in England

The government's Food Security Report points to a worsening outlook that suggests a major overhaul of domestic and global food systems is urgently needed

Two new studies reveal how genes from wild plants could be used to breed new climate-resilient crops

Inflation may have fallen, but a new report highlights how the UK's high dependency on fossil fuel and food imports leaves it at major risk of climate-related price shocks

The government's latest attempt to restrict solar farm development will undermine energy security and do next to nothing to improve food security - it amounts to little more than blatant electioneering

Ministerial statement seeks to tighten restrictions on solar developments on farmland, sparking bemused and angry response from solar farm industry

The Prime Minister has hailed the UK's new Food Security Index as a 'landmark moment' - but does it go far enough in tracking the escalating climate risks faced by the UK's food system?

The UK imports almost half its food, and farmers are facing climate impacts and economic headwinds - but a new report from Green Alliance suggests sustainable proteins could provide an answer to the country's food security challenges

Changes to Sustainable Farming Incentive mean applicants will only be able to put quarter of their land into six specified environmental actions that take land out of food production