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A tractor cultivates the ground for rapeseed oil crops at the Westons Farm, in Itchingfield, south England, on March 28, 2022. - Hungry cows at Westons Farm jostle for position at the feeding trough, blissfully unaware that Ukraine's war has sowed more turmoil for UK farms ploughing through Covid and Brexit fallout. Farms like Westons have therefore become more and more reliant on animal slurry to grow crops and cut costs. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

England food strategy ducks big questions on health and environment

13 June 2022

A major policy paper fails to address big health and environmental issues it was supposed to tackle, such as how to enable the diet changes needed to reach net zero
The huge problem of food waste could be twice as big as we thought

The huge problem of food waste could be twice as big as we thought

12 February 2020

A widely cited estimate of food waste appears to be wrong because it fails to account for how much more food rich people waste than poorer people

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