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Westminster Hall
Public Sector Food Procurement - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) of support for our food, farming and fishing communities, but necessitate an oversight body to ensure - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) When I chaired the all-party parliamentary group on agroecology for sustainable food and farming, we - Speech Link
3: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Government can deliver on their aims of sustainable and healthy food procurement in Scotland. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) For the benefit of the consumer, the producer and society as a whole, we need more seasonal, sustainable - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 10 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lampard (CON - Life peer) running of a family farming and forestry business. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) Can the noble Baroness say more about sustainable funding for women’s refuges and specialist services - Speech Link
3: Lord Monks (LAB - Life peer) It was common for my fellow male workers at the time to give their wives £5 to cover family food and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) food companies and industrial farming systems. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Willis of Summertown (CB - Life peer) Can the Minister reassure us that land use for agroecology and other sustainable farming practices that - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) ownership and for their own entrepreneurial liberties and freedoms. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) Almost all the work that we are doing—whether it is the global agriculture and food security programme - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) My Lords, after COP 27, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa said:“It was very disturbing to see - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Food Security - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bishops - Bishops) But there other things that we can do: we can invest in the transition to sustainable farming and fisheries - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) , increased land titles for indigenous peoples and local communities, finance for agroecology and actions - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) To support farming, we are introducing three schemes, which have been referred to: the sustainable farming - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Security - Thu 31 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) result of“a global food system that is already in crisis”,but the transition to sustainable, holistic - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) an issue for people who bang on about farming, like myself and the hon. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) rules for water, in which they also set out more detail on the sustainable farming incentive, they have - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) We need to support agroecology, and we also need to tackle food waste, as I have said many times.The - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) It is not about releasing GM food into the food chain. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) to grow food for animals or to produce fuel crops. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) farming incentive scheme? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) land for carbon sequestration, for food production and increasing our food security, for tree planting - Speech Link
3: None Here we are talking about agroecology and permaculture approaches. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) other, maybe more pressing, needs.Which land should be used for growing food and which for nature recovery - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) for the production of our food, not for a car wash or a water slide. - Speech Link
2: None The production of sustainable, world-class food in this country is paramount and not something that should - Speech Link
3: Earl of Dundee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Network, Sustain, the Landworkers’ Alliance and the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.My noble - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) We are considering how more environmentally sustainable farming approaches, including agro-ecological - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 30 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) the focus of the sustainable farming initiative. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, I declare two interests—one as a member of the Commission on Food, Farming and the Countryside - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment Committee Report - Thu 10 Jun 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) system delivers healthy, sustainable, affordable food for all.” - Speech Link
2: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) sustainable and nutritious food for the benefit of the British people. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Although the report does not use the term “agroecology”, it does refer to farming systems that would - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) for producing public goods—the sustainable farming incentive, local nature recovery and landscape recovery - Speech Link