Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has become a junior minister for the first time after being appointed as parliamentary ...

Andy Burnham has marked his arrival as PM with a new-look cabinet that sources said would spark a major debate over food ...

The Farmer Collaboration Fund opens in 2026 with £30m to boost resilience, cut costs and support farmer wellbeing under the UK Farming Roadmap.

Upland areas in the North of England and the South West miss out on new funding, meaning cities like Leeds and Carlisle could be more vulnerable to flooding ...

NFU President Tom Bradshaw today spoke with newly appointed Defra Secretary of State Dame Angela Eagle MP, on her first day ...

The policy had been proposed as part of the committee's 'Resetting the relationship with fish communities' report ...

Senior representatives from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) have visited Brigstock in ...

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024 ...

Dorset farmers say the government's 25 year plan doesn't do enough to relieve pressures on industry.

The UK Governmental Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has signed a £20.8 million (~$25m) deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Under the deal, AWS is providing Defra with cloud ...

Data from Defra has found that 89% of packaging producers in the UK are continuing to supply difficult-to-recyclable ...

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