A new report confirms bleak news for the organic food industry. Organic farming produces more greenhouse gases than conventional farming – up to 58% more. The study, published last month in Nature Communications, calculates for the first time what would happen if England and Wales switched from conventional to entirely organic farming in the first […]
There is a new crisis afoot in African development. The continent has the potential to become a development success story: expanding its own agrarian economy, building infrastructure to allow for the export of not just raw foodstuffs but manufactured food goods to markets around the world. The potential growth of commerce, leisure, education and the […]
The Resolution Foundation published a report this week, “The New Generational Contract”, aimed at redressing the breakdown of a contract between baby boomers and millennials: namely that pensioners’ social care is being paid for by today’s taxpayers (millennials) who cannot afford baby boomer-priced houses. The report is debilitated by two crippling misunderstandings. First, that millennials […]
You can get to Cambridge from Oxford directly in a roundabout sort of way: there are 53 of them between Oxford and Bedford alone. That’s one roundabout every 2 minutes and 21 seconds. It is why the proposed £3bn Expressway from Oxford to Cambridge, with a high-speed rail line to boot, can’t come soon enough. […]
The Department for International Development (DfID) of the UK government wants to increase direct cash transfers to up to six million people. In the light of the truly shocking Oxfam scandal last week, bypassing charities altogether may prove appetising. Especially when DfID struggles to meet the 0.7 per cent of GDP target. But experience in […]
