Livestock Debate – it’s a wrap (for now!) #LivestockDebate
In this series, our authors and readers have approached the livestock debate from many perspectives – climate, animal ethics, economic and more. So what have we learned? […]
In this series, our authors and readers have approached the livestock debate from many perspectives – climate, animal ethics, economic and more. So what have we learned? […]
A national experts’ vote on the European Commission’s plan to grant a new 15-year lease to the herbicide glyphosate was cancelled today (Tuesday) as several countries raised concerns over cancer warnings by the World Health Organisation. […]
The European Commission has postponed a vote on a 15-year reauthorisation of the substance Glyphosate, following important concerns from EU Member States and environmental organisations. This article looks at what’s next in the Glyphosate debate, before reviewing the most contentious issues surrounding this topic. […]
The European Parliament voted to oppose the importation of three genetically modified (GM) soybeans into the European Union. This vote sets it against the EU Commission, which wants to authorise these GM soybeans for feed use. […]
Climate Change Adaptation via Horticultural Integration: Meet Ehtiopian urban gardener Fetewei Tarekegn and his west African refugee team. […]
How far do – and should – our sympathies extend? Frank Armstrong gives us his second contribution on the ethics of livestock. […]
Is a kilo of meat really as bad as flying to New York? Or does the soil store enough carbon to cope? Guest post by Miles King. […]
IATP’s Ben Lilliston exposes the vulnerability of big meat – from mass gassings and manure lagoons to climate change and human rights. Part of our #LivestockDebate Series. […]
Thousands of farmers, activists and concerned citizens converged on Berlin on Saturday to say – once again – We Are Fed Up with agro-industry! […]
Transitioning to organic regenerative agriculture practices ‘offers the best, and perhaps our only, hope for averting a global warming disaster.’ […]
Aurélie Trouvé of ATTAC France released a book last year called Le Business Est Dans Le Pré (Business Is In The Meadow, subtitled How Agribusiness Is Drifting Into Crisis). ARC2020’s Peter Crosskey tells us about it. […]
ARC2020’s Communications manager had an eventful time in – and getting to – COP21 in Paris. Here’s his story. #D12 #REDLines […]
Following terrorist attacks and retaliatory bombings, read Understanding the Nature of Peace. A joint article by Hannes Lorenzen (ARC2020) and Juliette Majot (IATP) which places these awful occurrences in a rural, farming and food context. […]
IATP’s Ben Lilliston at #COP21 in Paris, examines France’s soil plans, and how agroecological or otherwise they are. […]
Hello and welcome to our December newsletter! The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – better known as COP21 – is underway in Paris. As we saw in the run up, with the Bonn talks we covered recently, nation states mostly argue their corner and real ambition is quite low: 2.7 degrees Celsius warming might be an optimistic outcome of the COP21, based on Bonn – and that’s hardly enough to prevent runaway climate change, when 2 degrees is the recognised ceiling. Agri-food is implicated in both Climate Change mitigation and adaptation. We’vesharpened our focus on these plus on regenerative agriculture, on soil, land use change and a host of other factors. In short we believe there are ways food production can become truly sustainable as outlined by IPES and others over recent months. This involves climate change and other food security, agroecology and food sovereigntydimensions, as we explore in numerous posts on our site. Let’s all work towards a real, sustainable agri-food sector, one that can hep us cope with […]
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