During the last five weeks, I embarked on a journey across Africa, engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders including farmers, policy experts, journalists, lobbying organizations, NGOs, and private investors.
Nuffield Scholar Claire Taylor Explores East Coast UK on Global Farming Tour
At midnight on May 31, Free Trade Agreements with New Zealand and Australia came in to force and my inbox was brimming with PR copy lamenting the UK Government’s approach to negotiating trade terms and highlighting the risk this poses to UK agriculture.
This week we caught up with former The Scottish Farmer colleague, Claire Taylor, during her travels around the world for her Nuffield scholarship.
Fish farmers in Kenya are still in recovery mode after millions of fish mysteriously died in the latter part of 2022, contributing to losses of around $11.4m.
Scotland’s first new vet school in over 150 years is expecting to welcome students this autumn and hopes to offer some solutions to issues around veterinary retention and shortages, in the more remote parts of the country.
It's almost a year since Russia invaded Ukraine and the extent of damage sustained by the agricultural community has been extensive, with shock waves being sent across the world on food security.
The radical transformation of our food systems that is needed to improve human health, 'save the planet' and build domestic resilience, was a hot topic at the NFU conference, in Birmingham, this week.
The UK’s immigration policy came under fire during a lively session at the NFU conference, in Birmingham, with discussions narrowing in on the government’s enthusiasm for automation as a means to addresses skills' gaps.
SCOTTISH farmers have been presented with a road map for the delivery of future agricultural policy support, but details over funding allocation remain unclear.
