Less intensive farming works best for agricultural soil. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250425230526.htm.

Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...

Defining intensive and extensive farming systems. Intensive farming aims to maximise output from a given land area, sometimes as small as 3-4 acres, especially in sectors like broiler or pig ...

Intensive farming is often used as shorthand for high-yield farming – that is, farming that produces more food per hectare. Land efficiency in food production is generally viewed positively.

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

THE Metropolitan Water Board is promoting a Bill in the present session of Parliament to acquire the Holly Lodge Farm, Walton-on-Thames, owned by Mr. A. F. Secrett, for the purpose of making a ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...

New research from the University of Exeter reveals that intensive livestock farming may heighten the risk of future pandemics. Share. by Lewis Clarke; 13:04, 16 Jul 2024; See news near you.

That means an immediate ban on new intensive poultry units across all the UK. This Author. Cathy Cliff is campaigns advisor at the Soil Association charity. She has authored reports around sustainable ...