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Westminster Hall
Restoring Nature and Climate Change - Mon 28 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) group on agroecology for sustainable food and farming, which I chair, did a three-part inquiry. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) the all-party parliamentary group on agroecology for sustainable food and farming, which does excellent - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) for food that we clearly did not require. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 17 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) Sustainable food production is a vital component of that, including action to rethink our diets and understand - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Bristol (Bishops - Bishops) the innovative sustainable farming of the Chew Valley to the south, has demonstrated the extent of the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) referred to the Government’s aims for farming, and food was not mentioned. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Mallalieu (LAB - Life peer) The food and farming industry generates £108 billion a year, our food manufacturing industry employs - Speech Link
5: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) food and for conservation. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Amazon Deforestation - Mon 07 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Yes, there is a case for pasture-fed livestock—I chair the all-party parliamentary group on agroecology - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) When I was a shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister, I was looking at the - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) We are all familiar with the reasons for deforestation: the expansion of extensive cattle farming and - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and not anything to do with her. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Modern Farming and the Environment - Tue 12 Mar 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Colin Clark (CON - Gordon) Modern farming tries to produce as much as it can from an acre, in an efficient and sustainable way. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) for sustainable food and farming, I support the idea of a whole-farm system based on nature-friendly - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) and sustainable environment where farming is the key driver. - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Public subsidies have been used to fund destructive food and farming practices for too long. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Exiting the European Union (Agriculture) - Wed 20 Feb 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs does not seem to be very good at producing such - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) This is one of hundreds of statutory instruments that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) farming, which could include, for instance, supporting the use of organic farmyard manures more than - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change - Thu 24 Jan 2019
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Rees of Ludlow (CB - Life peer) weather will aggravate pressures on food and water and enhance migration pressure. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (CB - Life peer) for households, farmers and industry; risks to our plants, wildlife and beautiful places; risks to food - Speech Link
3: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LDEM - Life peer) the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology had a meeting on agriculture and climate change. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee Debate: 14th sitting: House of Commons - Tue 20 Nov 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None restoration of the environment, so that the environment is healthy, resilient and sustainable for the - Speech Link
2: None to the natural environment and understanding of sustainable farming; and(d) opportunities for innovation - Speech Link
3: None happening in farming, and that this legislation is fit for purpose in the 21st century. - Speech Link
4: None In addition, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has separately commissioned the University - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Ninth sitting) - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) for investment and support through the nature of farming—obviously, a lot of the people who get the - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) wasted in agri-food supply chains to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12.3) of halving - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) If we are only to look at our food system in relation to farming and treat that as something segregated - Speech Link
4: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) Friend for this group of amendments, which are important in terms of both food waste and how our food - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) traceability in the food chain.The joint livestock information programme involves the farming industry - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Sixth sitting) - Tue 30 Oct 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) wants to support farming, food producers and those involved with caring for our landscape. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) question is how best to deliver food security and a successful farming industry. - Speech Link
3: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) Agroecology is recognised by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation as the basis for evolving food - Speech Link
4: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) understanding of sustainable productivity. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Fifth sitting) - Tue 30 Oct 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None Agroecology is recognised by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation as the basis for evolving food - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) I should begin by declaring that I am chair of the all-party parliamentary group on agroecology for sustainable - Speech Link
3: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) and meet our sustainable development goals. - Speech Link
4: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) the title of the White Paper, “Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment - Speech Link