Wildlife is at risk as demand for cropland and water grows to support a 50 per cent rise in farmed animals, campaign alliance ...

The way the modern world produces food has changed forever. As populations grow and global tastes shift, the massive systems required to supply our dinner tables are expanding rapidly.

In sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral livestock farming – where cattle, goats and sheep roam freely across grasslands, grazing at will – has been the main form of livestock production. It has been a source ...

This reporting comes from episode 3 of the latest season of Marketplace’s “How We Survive,” which takes a closer look at how the climate crisis is also a food and agriculture crisis. How humanity ...

Recent data analysis conducted by a human rights advocacy organization found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority ...

The first was the lift in factory prices and how that had, in turn, pushed up mart prices. The second was the continuing ...

Not an easy prospect given that the thick end of what cattle were in sheds are gone or, in the words of one farmer I spoke with, “They’re gone-gone”. This saw one agent tell me that by the end of last ...

Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...

Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed ...

The group Food & Water Watch bashed the continued growth of industrial livestock operations and repeated its call for a moratorium. The dominance of industrial-sized livestock operations continues to ...

More than 1,400 have opposed plans to build the new complex in Wiltshire Almost 1,400 people have opposed "cruel" plans to build a cattle "factory farm" the size of a Lidl supermarket on the edge of a ...

Some factory cattle procurement managers admitted base price offers could well have to rise again as the week progresses ...