Healthy soil – the ultimate essential infrastructure
As the Wildlife Trusts head off to the regenerative farming event Groundswell, where soil health rightly takes centre stage, Vicki Hird looks at the tools we need to restore and protect our soils…
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Will a new Food Strategy support nature friendly, resilient food and farming?
Farming depends profoundly on nature to deliver safe, sustainable and healthy foods. But the food system beyond the farm gate - the buyers, marketeers, retailers and restaurants – largely drives…
The urgent need to (re)consider lowland peat soils as intensive farmland
In January, The Wildlife Trusts co-hosted a workshop at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, discussing the challenges lowland peat soils face and potential solutions. In this blog, Vicki Hird,…
Five reasons for UK Government to restore nature in 2025
A focus on restoring nature in 2025 could help solve a raft of problems facing UK Government - from the economy, to floods and our water supply, and from climate, to farming and our health.
Nature-friendly farming budget escapes cuts but leaves Defra with important decisions to make
With the details of the Labour Government’s long anticipated Budget now unveiled, The Wildlife Trusts’ Senior Land Use Policy Manager Barnaby Coupe looks at the implications for Defra’s flagship…
Local democratic outcomes for farming, nature and land use – a trial
The new UK Government promised that more decision-making will be devolved to local communities. With many pressures on our land and the growing impact of climate and nature loss, new approaches to…
Reaping rewards for wildlife during the harvest: celebrating Jordans Cereals' partnership with The Wildlife Trusts
As farmers begin their days well before dawn during their busiest season, we want to celebrate the dedication and hard work of the growers in the Jordans Farm Partnership (JFP) – a long-standing…
Farming, food and nature – a triple challenge for this election
Politicians are notoriously wary of talking about food.
Nervous that anything they say publicly about changing the system will be construed as hiking prices of, or affecting access to,…
UK food security depends on restoring nature: then why are wildlife charities excluded from the Farm to Fork summit?
At the Farm to Fork summit hosted today by Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, we’re expecting to hear an announcement on a new annual Food Security Index – to add to the UK Food Security Report that…
The Wildlife Trusts respond to UK Government's inadequate consultation on badgers and bovine tuberculosis
Jo Smith, Chief Executive of Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, shares The Wildlife Trusts' thoughts on the wholly inadequate 5-week consultation launched by Defra on 14th March 2024, with the aim of…