What is Farming?

Marching in lockstep to the agri-food transition, the Forum for the Future of Agriculture avoided that one big question.

The New Slowest Zebra: The Food Industry

As the second slowest zebra, the food industry did nothing to support other industries attacked by activist lions. Today they’re the slowest zebra… and those lions are hungry!

What the Farmers (Should) Want

European leaders have received a symphony of protests over the last couple weeks as their capitals and offices have literally been shat on by angry farmers. It has made for entertaining (and horrifying) footage and wonderfully vague claims from European leaders on how to address the agricultural issues (which for them amounts to throwing more…

An Ex-Post on the Failed Glyphosate Campaign

Today the European Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF committee) was again unable to get a qualified majority vote for or against extending the authorisation of glyphosate. With the three largest countries (France, Germany and Italy) all “strategically abstaining”, the European Commission exercised its right to move forward and approve the reauthorisation…