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Colin Tudge

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Colin Tudge is author of Good Food for Everyone Forever and Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice and co-founder of the Campaign for Real Farming

April 2013

  • Gareth Wyn Jones and his sheepdog Cap with rescued sheep

    double quotation markLet's not bet the farm

    Colin Tudge
    Colin Tudge: Frozen lambs warn of our vulnerability to climate change – and the free market doesn't offer any shelter from food insecurity

September 2012

  • Tractors ploughing vast field

    double quotation markWhy the world needs a renaissance of small farming

    Colin Tudge

    Colin Tudge: The greed for profit is ruining agriculture – and the world – but the trend for local shops and farmers' markets offers real hope

March 2012

  • Children playing outdoors in autumn

    Head to head
    double quotation markAre modern British children suffering from 'nature deficit disorder'?

    Colin Tudge and Aleks Krotoski

    Head to head: Colin Tudge and Aleks Krotoski debate whether the National Trust is right to say losing touch with nature is damaging children

February 2012

  • Dust rises from a field as a tractor works the dry earth

    double quotation markLet the country, not the City, drive the UK economy

    Colin Tudge
    Colin Tudge: In one Oxfordshire village, an idea is gathering traction: that it's time for a new agricultural revolution

January 2012

  • Making round bales of straw using a Massey Ferguson tractor.

    double quotation markFarming needs Adam Smith's invisible hand, not finance capitalism

    Colin Tudge
    Colin Tudge: Even the establishment faces at the Oxford Farming Conference recognise all's not well – the theme this year is 'power'

September 2011

  • Horseshoe crab on a beach in Mississippi

    Survivors by Richard Fortey - review

    Colin Tudge searches for some of the planet's most ancient life forms

October 2010

  • People Enjoy The Mild Autumn Weather

    Why woodlands are wonderful

    Britain's forests are at their largest since 1750. Go out and enjoy them this weekend, urges tree-lover Colin Tudge

May 2009

  • double quotation markFossil Ida's great big family

    Colin Tudge

    Colin Tudge: This 47m-year-old bears out Darwin's belief that all creatures now on Earth are, literally, related