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Travel News

Meet the Cuban hotel owners turning to farming for survival

Cuba usually receives up to 4 million visitors a year. But the pandemic has left those who rely on the tourism industry turning to the land for survival.

United Kingdom

Goats on Zoom: UK farm finds new income by livening up video calls

Video meetings? Meh. One English farm takes Zoombombing to a new level: hiring out goats to make surprise appearances on conference calls.

Spain

Madrid’s farming sector estimates €6 million loss from Storm Filomena

It's been more than two weeks since Storm Filomena - and the consequences are still visible in Madrid’s countryside.

Conscious Travel

Inside the luxury farm in Ibiza where you can watch your dinner grow

Enjoy luxury travel and local food? This hotel is part of a scheme where chefs only use local ingredients.

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Conscious Travel

Four wholesome ‘live off the land’ retreats to try around the world

'Cultivacations' where you can blend agriculture with luxury stays is set to be the next big travel trend.

Lithuania

Lithuania confirms its first coronavirus cases at a mink farm

Lithuanian authorities say they have detected the presence of the new coronavirus in mink at a farm in Jonava district.

Earth News

To reach Paris Agreement targets, global food production ‘must change’

If we want to reach global warming targets we have to change how we eat, a new study has found.

Earth News

Pigs blood is being turned into protein powder by Danish scientists

60,000 tonnes of blood could provide a new source of sustainable food.

Denmark

Denmark to cull millions of minks as mutated coronavirus spreads

The world's biggest mink fur producer is to cull all of the country's minks after a mutated version of the virus was detected at mink farms and spread to people.

Travel News

Would you taste the world's hottest chilies?

The endorphin rush may be addictive, but this farm in the UK wants to show there is more to chili than just heat.

Earth News

The world's largest insect farm is being built in France

It will raise hundreds of millions of insects to be used as a protein source.

Europe News

EU agriculture reform pits farmers against environmentalists

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy represents the largest slice of the EU budget, and is currently subject to fierce battles between farmers and environmentalists as the bloc seeks to reform its policy. Striking a balance between protecting livelihoods and nature is proving tricky.

Earth News

A quarter of UK children think penguins and tigers live on farms

Children are becoming more out of touch with how their food is produced.

Earth News

Honeybees can be trained like sniffer dogs to help boost crops

Researchers have found bees can be conditioned to pollinate specific plants through scent-based memory techniques.

Earth News

The millennial entrepreneurs creating a more sustainable world

Meet the people working on inspiring solutions to challenge global sustainability and environmental issues.

Earth News

Cara Delevingne on how to solve the food crisis with Vandana Shiva

The pair explore the connections between food, climate and health in a live interview to be streamed online.

Earth News

This project is turning CO2 emissions into fish food

Food for the animals we eat is being made using carbon emissions captured from a power station.

Europe News

Explainer: What is the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy?

The EU has long been criticised for the generous subsidies it gives to its farmers. How is the money doled out, and how might the scheme be about to change?

Earth News

Plant-based diets could prevent a future pandemic say doctors

A group of UK doctors has called factory farming a 'ticking time bomb' for global health.

World News

Euroviews. Europe must resist attempts to use coronavirus as a Trojan horse against animal agriculture ǀ View

Farmers are facing attempts to use COVID-19 to influence EU policy and undermine animal agriculture by falsely linking the outbreak with modern farming practices, which are often maligned and poorly understood.