Chris Bourn and James Merino are students on the Postgraduate Diploma in Print Journalism at the University of Westminster. They set up this website during a two-week intensive introduction to web-page design: the brief – to create a personal homepage, along with a set of links that would be useful to journalists researching a particular news area (in this case, agriculture and the countryside). If you have any comments or (constructive) ideas, please e-mail us.

Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)

Department of Health

Food Standards Agency

Environment Agency

Countryside Agency

Meat and Livestock Commission

Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission

National Farmer's Union (NFU)

The Soil Association

Royal Agricultural Society

Prince of Wales' speeches on agriculture and the countryside

Friends of the Earth

Greenpeace

Government proposals and research for a ban on hunting with dogs.

Pressure groups campaigning both for and against a hunting ban.

Academic research into the ecological effects of hunting.

UK government policy on food safety and farming methods.

Pressure groups and academic debate relating to biotechnology, organic farming, and genetically modified foods.

Information on 'mad cow disease' (BSE) and it's human form, CJD.

Official resources and statistics on the UK's agricultural industry.

Business and professional associations.

Research sites relating to all matters of agri-business including sustainable farming.

The 3 major Foot and Mouth inquiries, the government's advice to farmers, regulatory bodies.

Special interest groups representing farmers hit by the crisis and detailing its effects on the British countryside.

Scientific research and recommendations.

The Countryside Alliance and the 'Liberty and Livelihood' march on London.

Related pressure groups campaigning for rural rights.

The government's response to the 'crisis in the countryside'.