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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Carbon offset
      Carbon offsets: giving sustainable forestry a green light Premium content

      At the margin, there are opportunities, but the price of carbon credits needs to rise

      Commercial forests are not as pretty as broad-leaf forever forests, but more financially attractive
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      UK rural land risks being forested over in corporate ‘greenwashing’

      Minister warns of farmland turned over to tree planting and other carbon offset schemes

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Farming subsidies trigger row over future of British countryside

      The government’s post-Brexit subsidy regime has left some farmers with less money than before

      Helen Drinkall, a livestock farmer from Chorley, Lancashire
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘We’re in the lap of the gods’: UK farmers contend with extreme weather

      Food supply chains are coming under threat because of climate change

      Andrew Blenkiron
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      UK fishing
      UK seafood sector in talks to clean up labour standards on fishing vessels

      Supermarkets among groups behind pilot scheme to combat human rights abuses in British fleet

      Fish being unloaded from a boat
    • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
      British berry growers accuse supermarkets of pocketing soft fruit profits

      Retailers claim they are battling to keep costs down for consumers after average punnet price increased 11% in 2022

      Seasonal workers pick strawberries in Faversham, England
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      UK employment
      Vulnerable UK migrant workers at risk as audits of farm recruiters stall

      Task force launched by supermarkets to tackle exploitation has yet to complete any assessments

      A farm worker harvests asparagus from a field near Sandwich, Kent
    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Food Prices
      UK dairy industry fears farm closures following processors’ price cuts

      Smaller farms at risk as production costs of milk exceed the amount that most farmers are paid

    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Human rights
      UK government faces legal challenge over visa system for migrant fishers

      FT investigation detailed mistreatment of Filipino crew who worked on British boats over the course of a year

      Crew members of the Radiant Star fishing in the North Sea in Shetland, Scotland.
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      FT Investigations
      The isolated and dangerous lives of migrant fishermen in the UK

      Two cousins came to the UK for a better life. They left changed forever

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      UK fishing
      UK fishing industry gets green light to hire more overseas workers

      The sector is struggling with labour shortages and post-Brexit export regulations

      Fisherman sorts his catch aboard a boat
    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      UK politics
      ‘Dysfunctional’ Whitehall ministry struggles with workload, say officials

      Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs hit by added post-Brexit responsibilities and turnover of ministers

      Pesticide being sprayed on a field of rapeseed in Basildon
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      UK fishing
      Chip shops battered by cost of cod put fried shark back on menu

      UK fishing boats will be able to land Northeast Atlantic spur dog — or ‘rock salmon’ — after sustainability levels recover

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Climate change
      UK government ‘strikingly unprepared’ for global warming

      Climate advisers’ report critical of progress and identifies multiple failures

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      UK immigration
      UK supermarkets to fund audits on farms to prevent worker exploitation

      Move comes after warnings that the recruitment process was exposing Asian migrants to exploitation

      Fruit pickers work on a farm in Egerton, UK
    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Fishing industry
      Record fish deaths prompt call for halt to expansion of Scottish salmon farming

      MSPs seek pause in aquaculture growth over environmental and welfare concerns as mortality doubles

      Workers sorting out live salmon at harvest time, in harsh weather conditions
    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Upland farmers lose hope for Brexit dividend

      Leaving the Common Agricultural Policy was meant to herald a new era

      Farmer Jane Bassett from Sennilow Farm In Hartington, Derbyshire, and her sheep
    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      UK faces heightened risk of carrot and leek shortages, warns NFU

      Farming group’s chief says extreme weather and higher input costs increase chances of empty shelves after salad crunch

      Leeks and carrots for sale at a market stall
    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      Wilting support for the Tories in farming areas reflects neglect

      As supermarkets ration salad, agriculture needs help from a government that cares

      Illustration of a farmer ploughing his land with a tractor and slicing the word ‘conservatives’ in the process. The land turns yellow, then red then green into the distance
    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      UK minister booed by farmers as fruit and vegetable shortages widen

      Thérèse Coffey tells NFU conference egg production drop not caused by market failure, while Tesco announces rationing

      Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey addresses the National Farmers’ Union conference on Wednesday
    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      UK salad shortages to last ‘for weeks’, retailers warn

      British Retail Consortium’s forecast comes as Asda and Morrisons ration purchases of fruit and vegetables

      Peppers on display in a London market
    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Special ReportCircular Economy
      Droughts trigger water-saving debates in rainy regions

      Farmers are intensely aware of the challenges in conserving water supplies

      A woman walking behind a herd of cows on a farm
    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Judith Evans
      Farmers are caught in England’s post-Brexit identity crisis

      Finances are in peril, with new funding to replace EU-style subsidies still at an early stage of development

      Farmers release pigs from a trailer
    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      UK boosts payments for farmers after low uptake of post-Brexit scheme

      Government to increase funding to landowners in England under environment protection programme

      A farm near Crewe in north-west England
    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      UK fishing
      Sustainability campaigners criticise UK-EU fishing deal

      Stocks of cod, whiting and herring are being overfished, warn environmental groups

      A French fisherman sorts through the mackerel catch on board a trawler off the coast of Ouistreham, north-west France
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