Election 2024: What does it mean for Food, Farming and the Environment?
As the election draws nearer, the three major parties have released their manifesto pledges for what they seek to implement if elected into government.
5 Ways Land App Can Help Plan Diversification
Agriculture in the UK, and around the world, is undergoing a transition. Historic funding mechanisms, especially the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) from the EU, are declining and set to be phased out completely.
World Environment Day: Can Land Restoration turn the tide of Desertification and Drought Resilience?
World Environment Day is hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Held annually on 5 June since its inception in 1973, it presents an opportunity for a global conversation around critical environmental issues, and the solutions needed to address them.
What is Agroforestry?
As conversations around agricultural transition turn to diversification, biodiversity, and resilience to climate change, the essential role of trees in the farmed landscape becomes all the more apparent.
Regenerative farming, agroecology, and the future of food with Riverford’s Harriet Bell
“It’s critical we don’t have food systems too big to fail”
How Land App is Helping Landscape Recovery Projects Nationwide
At our heart, Land App is about connectivity – of landscapes, habitats and our users. As we move toward thinking at the landscape scale, and conversations develop about a land use framework, understanding land use in a coordinated, holistic and scaled way is critical for increased resilience, food production and nature recovery.
A tragedy of the horizon? Nature degradation could erode 12% of GDP, a new GFI report shows.
In a now well-established speech in 2015, Mark Carney (ex-governor of the Bank of England) located failings around climate change not within a tragedy of the commons, but within a “Tragedy of the Horizon”.
Reflections on Knepp with the Land App Team
Last week, the Land App team were lucky enough to visit Knepp Estate – the rewilding project pioneering a new approach to land management. Here, we dive into what makes Knepp so impressive, what took the Land App team by surprise, and why the future of land management is one of optimism and excitement.
6 ways Land App can help with your Regenerative Land Management
Regenerative approaches to land management are becoming more popular amongst farmers in the UK. For some, these are familiar practices, though for others it represents a new way of approaching land management and an uphill learning curve.
What is Regenerative Farming?
Previously confined to the margins of the conversation about agriculture, ‘regenerative farming’ is now being spoken about at almost every turn. Land management approaches are being re-evaluated worldwide in response to climate events, flooding and drought, the continued decline in biodiversity, and the alarming loss of nutrient-rich topsoil. Accordingly, ‘resilience’ and ‘regeneration’ are becoming synonymous with transition, as the world looks for long-term, meaningful solutions.