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From Mud Angels to Soil Angels
Europe needs – and is getting – itself some soil angels. Who are they? What do they do? And where do mud angels (!) come into it? Mario Catizzone explains […]
Month: February 2016
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EU Commission Drops Food Waste Reduction Targets
EU removes food waste targets and lessons ambitions in Circular Economy Package – its rubbish! But we’ve got some suggestions…. […]
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EU milk farmers calling for solidarity
The European Milk Board calls for a European Union that acts in favour of the common good and well-being of its citizens and shows solidarity while upholding peace and harmony. EU agricultural policy cannot be used as a tool to pit European producers against each other! […]
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Commission’s “maladministration” over Pesticide Approval – Ombudsman
The methods by which the EU Commission approves pesticides without the full dataset were criticised in a Decision by the EU Ombusdman yesterday (Monday). This practice “appeared to constitute maladministration” according to Emily O Reilly. […]
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Soil in the EU – Institution Inertia & People Progress
People are stepping up to protect Europe’s soil. Will the Institutions? Guest post by Mario Catizzone. […]
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Drying Soils are Bad News – for Microbes and People
Deep beneath our feet, out of sight and out of mind, millions of tiny communities of microbes are working together to perform key ecosystem functions. […]
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CAP Cuts E1 Billion From Environmentally Friendly Farming
Despite the rhetoric, this CAP is less green than the last one. Here’s why. […]
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Two More Meta Analysis find Organic to be Nutritionally Superior to Conventional
Two More Meta Analysis finds Organic to be Nutritionally Superior to Conventional – the same team for similarly for crops in 2014. […]
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Climate, Livestock, Carbon & the Lobby #LivestockDebate
Shefali Sharma from IATP exposes how big meat corporations work to keep the game rigged towards business-as-usual – an as-usual that is running us into a climate change catastrophe #LivestockDebate final contribution before round up. […]
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Parliament Votes to Oppose Importing GM Soya
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. […]
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UK pollinators hit by farming
UK-wide study traces declining diversity of nectar sources for the country’s pollinators. Four plant species supplied half the UK’s nectar in 2007. […]
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Berlin’s Sea of Flowers – Where Climate & Humanity Intersect
Climate Change Adaptation via Horticultural Integration: Meet Ehtiopian urban gardener Fetewei Tarekegn and his west African refugee team. […]
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Environmental Destruction Directly Impacts Farm Profits | #Livestock Debate
Sheldon Frith comes back on criticisms of holistic management in his second and final contribution to the #LivestockDebate […]
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New Law, Contested Agroecology – France’s Loi d’Avenir
Here we feature a pair of extracts from the publication Conversion to agroecology: France’s hopes for environmental salvation by ARC2020’s Peter Crosskey. It opens with the political move to introducing an agroecology law, and ends with criticism of the weakness of this move from the 15,000 member Confédération Paysanne. […]
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Let us Evolve and Extend our Sympathies to all Living Creatures. #LivestockDebate
How far do – and should – our sympathies extend? Frank Armstrong gives us his second contribution on the ethics of livestock. […]