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.
The German Scentific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection has published English version of its report on "Designing an effective agri-environment-climate policy as part of the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy" https://t.co/FksAV2Bz4W
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) January 3, 2020
Nature's verdict: the #EUGreenDeal is good for climate✅but bad for biodiversity❌!
The #ClimateCrisis🔥 & #BiodiversityCrisis💀is a two-headed monster. For nature & people, we MUST slay both.
The cost of inaction is just too high. Read our take 🌳🦉🐝
— BirdLife Europe & Central Asia (@BirdLifeEurope) December 16, 2019
For all the feel good stories about individual farmers, this is the big picture reality of #livestock & #biofuels farming today. >>Lethal algae blooms – an ecosystem out of balance #FutureofCAP @TimmermansEU@jwojc@VSinkevicius https://t.co/QMrFq2d6Ql
— Ariel Brunner (@ArielBrunner) January 5, 2020
Our new blog shows trees on farms can help reduce pests and diseases, boost natural pest control and cut the need for pesticides. Looking forward to talking #pesticide reduction and #agroforestry at #ORFC2020. https://t.co/9qPBwgRMaP #naturefriendlyfarming #OFC2020 @IFarmers
— Sandra Bell (@sandrambell) January 7, 2020
Our new blog shows trees on farms can help reduce pests and diseases, boost natural pest control and cut the need for pesticides. Looking forward to talking #pesticide reduction and #agroforestry at #ORFC2020. https://t.co/9qPBwgRMaP #naturefriendlyfarming #OFC2020 @IFarmers
— Sandra Bell (@sandrambell) January 7, 2020
#Ukraine: Protests force amendment to farmland law that prevents foreign ownership and limits land holdings to 10,000 hectares. https://t.co/ComV6XRQnd pic.twitter.com/GH2fvq6BtR
— GRAIN (@GRAIN_org) January 16, 2020
A slightly updated comment on the Agriculture Bill provisions now it has been published https://t.co/6uxIv9tPgV
— Vicki Hird (@vickihird) January 16, 2020
“The countries that score highest on the Human Development Index also contribute most to ecological breakdown. In this sense, HDI promotes a model of development that is empirically incompatible with ecological stability, and impossible to universalize.” https://t.co/hPqHNshP2n
— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) January 3, 2020
in Ireland, the extinction crisis is green:
1) green fields are sterile and simple. each was created through the destruction of a complex wood, bog or meadow that came before. their simplicity is maintained with herbicide and by overloading the soil with nitrates and phosphates pic.twitter.com/xrkK0zoalB
— collbradán (@collbradan) August 27, 2019
in Ireland, the extinction crisis is green:
1) green fields are sterile and simple. each was created through the destruction of a complex wood, bog or meadow that came before. their simplicity is maintained with herbicide and by overloading the soil with nitrates and phosphates pic.twitter.com/xrkK0zoalB
— collbradán (@collbradan) August 27, 2019
"La PAC, une catastrophe agricole commune". Que le Green Deal annoncé lui fasse prendre l'indispensable tournant de la transition agroécologique, soutienne les emplois, les nouveaux entrants et en finisse avec des aides à l'hectarehttps://t.co/dIlg4Rdwwx
— Samuel Féret (@sam_feret) January 4, 2020
This is supposed to be a highly regulated industry according to @agriculture_ie – Quite clearly not. #Endliveexports https://t.co/mv0R40DQOt
— Dr Andrew Kelly (@Dr_A_Kelly) January 5, 2020
This prototype Social Food Atlas from @johnthackara & the #Mammamiaaa community is very interesting! Found a couple of projects here in #Romania that we were not aware of https://t.co/f8XZw8j0ep
— Highclere Consulting (@highclere2018) January 5, 2020
Game changer? Danish farmers divided over plan to flood their lands to cut emissions https://t.co/ycEX2poOMv
— Flo Renou-Wilson (@flo_renouwilson) January 6, 2020
Great to see our report for @WWFScotland getting good press coverage.
Scotland’s farmers ‘could slash emissions by more than a third’ https://t.co/Pmi8tmBz0I— Nic Lampkin (@LampkinNic) January 7, 2020
2020 will be a big year for agri-food policy. One major challenge: align #FutureofCAP #EUFarm2Fork #EUTrade and #EUGreenDeal
EU food-agri-trade policies need urgent reform to support, rather than undermine, our #SDGs #Biodiversity & #Climate objectiveshttps://t.co/SH9AmU3w7A
— Celia Nyssens (@CeliaNysss) January 8, 2020
The global food system is a highly engineered, heavily researched system that improves every year through the application of genetics, maths, modeling and cutting-edge biotechnology.
— Mick Watson (@BioMickWatson) January 6, 2020
"We don’t need to wait for futuristic new technology to support a transition to nature and climate friendly farming and diets." @vickihird once again the voice of reason and moderation on greening our food system.@UKsustain #OFC20 #ORFC20 #ApocalyseCow https://t.co/5vicCsuQb4
— Verushka (@Verushka) January 8, 2020
This briefing seeks to inform EU, national and regional policymakers about how the latest Common Agricultural Policy #FutureofCAP reform could deliver much-needed improvements in environmental and climate action. https://t.co/FAvXBEMVRN
— IEEP (@IEEP_eu) January 9, 2020
There are many reasons why our #FoodSystem needs to become more sustainable: #ClimateChange, depletion of resources, #biodiversity loss.. #Organic and #agroecology can help this transition. Find out how in our new position paper https://t.co/R2TK40fi7A #EUGreenDeal @EU_Commission pic.twitter.com/1i70yr9CSq
— IFOAM EU (@IFOAMEU) January 9, 2020
In past 2 years Trump EPA has approved 100+ dangerous pesticides incl. those banned elsewhere/slated for US phaseout – implications for US-UK trade deal – we already know pesticides a priority issue for US https://t.co/syPg2yWWiX @PAN_UK @pesticideaction @LydgateEmily @mwarhurst
— Keith Tyrell (@Kftyrell) January 8, 2020
"Phasing out synthetic #Pesticides and fertilisers and aggressive emission reductions among series of solutions outlined by scientists" We need #Regenerative #organic #Agriculturehttps://t.co/EQ5O9104cH@regeneration_in @pesticideaction @EuropePAN @drvandanashiva
— Andre Leu (@Andreleu1) January 9, 2020
French vineyards fear losing land to new pesticide-free zones https://t.co/ojCE1FewkQ
— EURACTIV Agri & Food (@eaAgriFood) January 9, 2020
Farms with trees 🏡🚜🌾🌳🌲🌲🌳
Share of farms with woodland in every EU country, from @Eurostat's 2019 book of Agriculture, Forestry & Fishery stats: https://t.co/KEauPOXSJ3 pic.twitter.com/JG8dubG2Tj
— EU Agriculture🌱 (@EUAgri) January 11, 2020
Why tractors built in 1980 or earlier are causing bidding wars at auctions. https://t.co/NEOCxshgby
— Civil Eats (@CivilEats) January 11, 2020
Dung Beetles reduce Ghg emissions from cattle. Another reason to eliminate dosing products and introduce multiple species swards (natural anthelmintics) @Johnfinn310 @Irishwildlife @ZwartblesIE @whittledaway https://t.co/cU75g3ndBR
— Regenerative Farming Ireland (@ireland_farming) January 11, 2020
"The greatest sustainability challenge for Ag may well be that of replacing non-renewable resources with ecologically-skilled people." https://t.co/54ieXgVwHo
— Keeley McGarr O'Brien (@KeeleyOb) January 12, 2020
On cows and carbon sequestration.
There is a lot of confusion on Twitter about the role of ruminants in producing greenhouse gases (bad) versus helping to sequester (store) carbon in soil (good). I thought a short summary of the state of knowledge might help: pic.twitter.com/AcCNhzzIqf— Dave Goulson (@DaveGoulson) January 12, 2020