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UK agriculture
Limits placed on removal of land from food production in England
...At present, about 63 per cent of land in England is used for agriculture, according to official data. The UK produces roughly 60 per cent of the food it consumes, according to the government....
March 25, 2024
South Africa
S Africa proposes ‘innovative’ medical tourism plan allowing use of rhino horn
...of apartheid....
April 6, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
David Willer
To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’
...The writer is a fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and a member of the Department of Zoology Human health thrives on a diet rich in fish....
April 3, 2024
Climate change
Record ocean warming adds to dangers for native fish species, environment chief warns
...Greece, as host country for the Our Ocean conference, launched as a US state department initiative by John Kerry in 2014, this week announced an expansion of its marine protected areas in the Ionian and...
April 18, 2024
Food & Beverage
Plans to label UK homegrown food sparks ministerial row
...The business secretary set out a series of conditions before her department would agree to a public consultation on the labels, including a “quantitative analysis of the impact of this policy on food prices...
February 21, 2024
Cryptocurrencies
What is a FRAX? And other pressing questions
...Paxos Trust Co.’s issuance of U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins has been under the supervision of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) since 2018....
December 13, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Brexit
Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body
...“We fully recognise the importance of Scottish salmon to the UK economy and are committed to supporting the sector,” the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said....
March 28, 2024
LexElectric vehicles
EU carmakers’ strategic U-turns point them in the right direction Premium content
...Slowing growth of electric vehicle sales has caused a series of corporate U-turns. While sharp swerves are never fun, the change in direction is sensible....
February 1, 2024
Stephen Bush
Little good can come of Starmer’s green U-turn
...Now, some shadow cabinet ministers have vowed to play a similarly long game of waiting until they can use the power and resources of a government department to marginalise and take revenge on Labour’s overmighty...
February 9, 2024
Europe Express
Inside the dissent roiling Lagarde’s unhappy ECB Premium content
...Ukraine U-turn: Slovakia’s Russia-friendly prime minister Robert Fico has backtracked on his combative stance towards Kyiv, pledging support....
January 25, 2024
The Big Read
The dubious climate gains of turning soil into a carbon sink
...The benefits of regenerative agriculture are not in doubt....
January 23, 2024
Rare earths
The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy
...The US Department of Defense stores critical minerals in the National Defense Stockpile, but its value has dropped from $9bn in 1989 to less than $1bn, or below 0.3 per cent of annual demand globally, as...
April 21, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review — heartbreak inspires anguish, anger and a career highlight
...Its 10 predecessors are one-word affairs, excepting her 2006 debut Taylor Swift and 2010’s Speak Now. In contrast, The Tortured Poets Department is a mouthful, and one savouring of doggerel at that....
April 19, 2024
Cryptocurrencies
We need to talk about Franklin Templeton
...That’s less than AppLovin, Domino’s Pizza and the world’s biggest producer of frozen potato chips. It’s only barely enough for inclusion into the S&P 500....
January 19, 2024
UK agriculture
UK government sets out bigger post-Brexit subsidies for farmers
...The environment department said 8,000 farmers had last year applied to one of the new regime’s subsidies, the Sustainable Farming Incentive, far below the 82,000 eligible....
January 4, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Europe Express
Farmers on the march Premium content
...Yet many are also pioneers of a new kind of agriculture. You are adopting new technologies from satellites to drones, to increase yields and bring costs down....
February 17, 2024
Letter
Letter: Storing carbon in soil is not a climate panacea
...Certainly, there are excellent reasons to consider new models of agriculture that reduce our reliance on damaging chemical inputs, and better protect fragile soil health....
January 26, 2024
Agricultural commodities
Humanity loves a cup of tea. So where’s the futures market?
...The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has even held summits and put out reports on the possibility of futures markets in Indian and Chinese tea....
March 1, 2024
German politics
Protest against German vice-chancellor shocks political class
...As part of a package of measures they cut an exemption from car tax for farming vehicles and removed tax breaks for diesel fuel used in agriculture....
January 5, 2024
Australia
‘Made in Australia’ drive aims to shift economy from ‘world’s quarry’ label
...it has tapped into huge funding programmes from the Department of Energy....
April 3, 2024
Merlin Entertainments PLC
How Britain’s biggest aquarium chain keeps its animal records under wraps
...The BBC’s 2018 report on Sea Life revealed that an inspector appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had advised the aquarium to supply “the minimum information required”....
March 12, 2024
LexFood & Beverage
Milk alternatives should not drive investors nutty Premium content
...In 2019, Americans drank an average of around half a cup of milk a day, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. That is 50 per cent lower than in 1970....
February 4, 2024
Food & Beverage
Moves to ban lab-grown meat intensify in Republican US states
...Cultivated meat businesses argued they undergo close scrutiny by the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Department of Agriculture before products can be eaten....
March 31, 2024
Letter
Letter: Andrew Tate and threats to our social contract
...Just look at the rising numbers of sexual assaults on university campuses, the Metropolitan Police WhatsApp groups, and the “Everyone’s Invited” website documenting rape and sexual assault in...
March 12, 2024
News in-depthTechnology regulation
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
...More than 900 companies, including American department store JCPenney and luxury fashion label Prabal Gurung, last year faced legal action from individuals over claims of an alleged failure to provide equal...
April 7, 2024

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