Supermarket shopping bags are bulging like never before, and not just with food. Whether its meat encased in plastic boxes or pots of yoghurt gussied up in decorative cardboard sleeves, it seems you can’t avoid bringing excess packaging home along with your supper. High-profile campaigns from the WI and Independent newspaper has helped to bring the issue to the top of the agenda...

Fair trade is without doubt a positive movement, in terms of both the financial benefits for small producers and perhaps, more importantly, for the way it has raised awareness about the inequalities of global trade.

Organic agriculture is nothing new. Many farmers, especially in the developing world practice organic techniques and have no access to modern agricultural technology and chemicals...

The latest supermarket revolution; the increase of specialist, British, local products from smaller suppliers on the shelves...

Food miles - bugbear of the green brigade or is transporting food around our planet truly helping to cause its decline?...