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Rewilding: Threat or promise for hill farming?

Sustainable Food Trust

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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SEEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Lunatic Farmer

Of course, I’m always going to speak so my hosts take care of meals, lodging, tickets, etc. What I do is visit farms and look for cutting edge practical ecological solutions. Couple that with anti-ecology and you have a recipe for dysfunction. I’ve been to 19 foreign countries and have not spent one dime in any of them.

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Op-ed: Walmart’s Outsized Catch

Civil Eats

Some were concerned with MSC’s objection process , in which any outside organization concerned about a pending certification—often environmental groups or fishers from adjacent fisheries—paid up to £15,000 to lodge complaints (in August 2010, the maximum fee was lowered to £5,000).