Digital agriculture is often sold as inevitable progress, but behind the "cloud" lie corporate power grabs, exploited mine and data workers, and huge water and energy costs – raising urgent questions ...

Beyond GM asked Prime Minister Andy Burnham to put food sufficiency at the heart of food policy. His office passed our letter onto an anonymous Defra staffer who ignored the proposal, revealing instea...

Defra’s Farming Roadmap uses welcome nature-friendly language while directing funding and momentum towards technology-led growth, leaving organic and agroecological systems underfunded and governance ...

Pat Thomas, Director of the campaign group Beyond GM, talks to Charles Malet about her organisation’s recent High Court victory concerning food labelling.

Patrick Holden reflects on why he chose to speak out during a recent judicial review challenging regulations that remove labelling and traceability from ‘precision bred’ organisms (PBOs) and the impor...

A High Court legal challenge led by Beyond GM has found that the Government failed to understand the significant consequences – for farmers, businesses, consumers and the organic sector – of removing ...

England could see meat from gene edited animals sold in shops very soon. What are the ethical implications of this technology?

Reflecting on current situation in the Middle East and the subsequent impact on food security around the world, the SFT's research team imagine what a future food system that's more resilient to globa...

Two new Beyond GM briefings explore the likely next stages for the UK's deregulation of gene editing: farm animals and microorganisms. But the picture is considerably more complicated than the governm...

We are acting with a group of citizens, farmers, food producers and retailers to ensure novel genetically modified organisms are visible and traceable in the environment and food system.

A new Citizens’ Charter for Transparency, Accountability and Choice in the Use of Genetic Technologies has been launched, setting out clear principles for how genetic engineering – including gene edit...

New research shows gene editing can cause lasting disruption to genome function through “chromatin fatigue” – even when DNA appears to have repaired itself – raising serious questions about UK deregul...

Genetic engineering cannot be contained in living systems. From bees to crops, engineered genes and microbes inevitably spread, exposing regulatory blind spots and challenging assumptions of control, ...

A sweeping deal to deregulate new GMOs has been proposed in the EU, yet civil society still secured some key concessions – seed labelling, public registers and full regulation for higher-risk plants –...

The IUCN’s embrace of genetic engineering as a conservation 'tool' marks a profound shift in policy – from protecting nature to engineering it. Critics warn this opens the door to biotech influence, e...