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Stay up to date with all the lat­est news on LEAF. Look out for details of the new ini­tia­tives, reports, part­ner­ships, events and dates for the diary…

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LEAF invites the industry to help shape the future of the LEAF Marque Standard

Today we announced the start of a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the LEAF Mar­que Stan­dard (v16.0 Draft). The stan­dard sets out the require­ments for LEAF Mar­que certification.

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LEAF Education reports its highest levels of engagement to date

With a five-fold increase in the num­ber of young peo­ple it has worked with over the past year, accord­ing to its lat­est Impacts Report.

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Students believe farming CAN become carbon neutral by 2040

After a fierce­ly con­test­ed com­pe­ti­tion last week­end between five UK sec­ondary schools, Lau­rus Rye­croft (Man­ches­ter) has won the pres­ti­gious title of ​“Food, Farm­ing and Nat­ur­al Envi­ron­ment School of the Year…

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LEAF sets new target that will see 85% of all UK fruit and vegetables grown more sustainably

The tar­get will see the amount of UK fresh pro­duce grown by LEAF Mar­que cer­ti­fied busi­ness­es almost dou­bling with­in the next five years.

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Pepsico to support all UK Quaker Oat growers to reach the LEAF sustainability standard

All 300+ farm­ers grow­ing Quak­er Oats in the UK to become LEAF Mar­que cer­ti­fied by the end of 2023

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Free advice and support for farmers

LEAF are sup­port­ing AHDB in deliv­er­ing the Farm Busi­ness Review to help your busi­ness pre­pare for the biggest agri­cul­ture pol­i­cy shift in a generation.

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Urgent call for farmers to sign up for Farmer Time due to unprecedented teacher demand

The Farmer Time team is call­ing on more farm­ers to get involved, to inspire future gen­er­a­tions about farm­ing, food pro­duc­tion and the environment.

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Two leading research centres join the LEAF Network as centres of excellence for sustainable farming

Agrii’s Throws Farm Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre and New­cas­tle Uni­ver­si­ty Farms have become the lat­est two estab­lish­ments to join the LEAF Network.

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Tesco transforms environmental standards for growers with adoption of global LEAF Marque Standard

Roll-out of LEAF Mar­que will improve envi­ron­men­tal stan­dards across 14,000 grow­ers globally.

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LEAF to support leading UK agricultural supplier to meet net zero targets

Wynnstay Group, one of the UK’s lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers and sup­pli­ers of agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts and ser­vices, is turn­ing to LEAF to help sup­port its net zero ambitions.

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