Our weekly Twitter round up of great content from our kindred network: a Friday treat for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy what we’ve found for you on twitter.
UK vision for agricultural policy as articulated by the UK Environment Secretary George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday. Leaving aside the obligatory anti-EU references, this is an experiment that EU CAP watchers should follow closely https://t.co/EGTrkBoQTo
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) January 7, 2022
The presence of wolves in the landscape has been shown dramatically to curtail the spread of African #Swine Fever virus. Wolves target and kill infected individuals. https://t.co/USWsDX4v9W
— Ben Goldsmith (@BenGoldsmith) January 8, 2022
Anthony Mooney's new wetland habitat on his farm, created during summer by breaking old drainage pipes. Over 150 birds now present feeding- wigeon, snipe, teal, mallard, lapwing, black headed gull and now black tailed godwit!!! pic.twitter.com/Dwunm9nBBY
— Ó Cuinneagáin (@MayoCorncrake77) December 26, 2021
Everyone is talking about the need for further action on biodiversity. @COPACOGECA wants to reopen a debate (which has been closed in 2016 after the #Natura2000 Fitness Check) with the aim to weaken EU's nature legislation. Large share of AGRI MEPs are willingly playing along.😡 https://t.co/eTX30dl60S
— Andre Prescher (@aprescher_muc) January 11, 2022
A month on, not apology and no rectification from @EUAgri for slandering the bird monitoring and indicators work of scientists and volunteers. Scientists have now had to write to @jwojc asking him to intervene. https://t.co/C6z0Lo5oY5 https://t.co/eur55W2Xs4
— Ariel Brunner (@ArielBrunner) January 12, 2022
Will 2022 be the year of the greener grocer? My new blog wrapping up the Oxford Real Farming Conference take on local food retail. @UKsustain @kindlingtrust @CSANetwork @OpenFoodNetUK @orfc #orfc22 https://t.co/Z26EW7bxUs
— Ben Reynolds (@BenTrelawney) January 12, 2022
Agriculture Commissioner throws his weight behind carbon farming https://t.co/EW29VcGg6b
— EURACTIV Agri & Food (@eaAgriFood) January 12, 2022
Draft agenda for next week's big meeting of EU farming ministers — the first under the French EU presidency…https://t.co/ZWAeKir0DE
— Eddy Wax (@EddyWax) January 12, 2022
How global agricultural subsidies could be repurposed with beneficial outcomes for climate and health with no loss of economic welfare, new paper in Nature Communications from Marco Springmann and @FlorianFreund3 , open access https://t.co/1CMfIs4scS
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) January 13, 2022
"Despite studies linking some of the pesticides to biodiversity decline and diseases such as cancer, global pesticide use has jumped by 80 percent from 1990 to 2007" I guess the revision of the Sustainable use of pesticides Directive, is really needed https://t.co/h6uQCNDIkh
— Marilda Dhaskali (@MarildaDhask) January 13, 2022
Germany’s pesticide rules have major shortcomings – report https://t.co/C8huigoYu8
— EURACTIV Agri & Food (@eaAgriFood) January 13, 2022