Tag Archives: Food

Guest blog by Vicki Hird: Horticulture Strategy Ditched: a Massive Backward Step for the Fruit and Veg We need

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Miles King

The Farm Minister Mark Spencer MP recently announced that the Government will not produce the Horticulture Strategy, promised in the Government’s food strategy. Sustain’s Head of Farming Vicki Hird vents her huge frustration at this backwards step and sets out … Continue reading →

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Writing elsewhere

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Miles King

It will not have escaped your powerful observational skills, dear reader, that there has been little going on at “a new nature blog”, for the last few months. Have I given up writing, developed a terrible case of bloggers block, … Continue reading →

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Public Goods for Public Money

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Miles King

“Public Goods for Public Money” has become a bit of a mantra, not just for me, but for a wide range of organisations and individuals fed up with one failed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy after another. I was … Continue reading →

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