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.
.@jwojc promises to figh #FutureofCAP corruption. But dodges the issue of paying polluters and more fundamental one of what are we trying to achieve with "direct payments" – biggest spending item in #EUBudget https://t.co/vX5O1FYRGK
— Ariel Brunner (@ArielBrunner) January 25, 2020
You probably all know it anyway, but maybe a useful summary. https://t.co/fjBfeDDRVk
— Guy Pe'er (@GuyPeer3) January 24, 2020
The German Farmers' Union sets out its position on the green architecture of the next CAP and role of eco-schemes (EN version) https://t.co/crL8Zcsbcb
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) January 16, 2020
Joint Statement by Agriculture Ministers of France, Germany and Spain on the future CAP in context of European Green Deal underlines some of the issues dividing AGRIFISH Council Ministers https://t.co/pb4OV7ivRR
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) December 20, 2019
The pesticide industry’s playbook for poisoning the earth: @bayer @syngenta vs life on Earth. An information war decoded at https://t.co/EX38X9vcfe by @lhfang pic.twitter.com/OzWzIQRRJK
— Raj Patel (@_RajPatel) January 18, 2020
Einstein’s famous quote immediately comes to mind – he warned: “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”. #solutions = #agroecology https://t.co/B1r9YvOS41
— JAMES MORAN (@MORANEnv) January 26, 2020
EU Agri and Fisheries Council reports out today:
-Regulation on CAP transition rules
-EU Green Deal -agri aspect
-Animal welfare labelling
-Future of global pork production under the threat of African swine fever
-Origin labelling of honey blends
https://t.co/D9Ne0UTgwa pic.twitter.com/mEexSx9ib7
— Oliver Burke (@olivergburke) January 27, 2020
We identify 5 key aspects of #FutureofCAP that #Agrifish council has to re-examine and change during the @EU2020HR presidency, if they want to be credible in their claims! https://t.co/AhCtSesqQR
— Jabier Ruiz (@jabierolas) January 28, 2020
EU farmers tread carefully on Green Deal, as balance with CAP is not easy stuff https://t.co/yDgC5GVfvx
— EURACTIV Agri & Food (@eaAgriFood) January 28, 2020
At last the final edit of our interview with brilliant @vickihird
How we can change our food and farming systems for the better to stop us getting really screwed 😀#Agroecology
— Extinction Rebellion Oxford (@XR_Oxford) January 27, 2020
European Council President Charles Michel has called a special EUCO meeting 20 Feb to discuss the next EU MFF budget. My blog post assesses the issues at stake, also for the CAP budget https://t.co/Af3erMHBky
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) January 29, 2020
This has been all over Twitter. Lots of climate tweeps have been pointing to it as evidence that local food is just a romantic eco-myth – that if we really want to eat environmentally, then ‘the what’ matters, not ‘the where’. Time for a thread…https://t.co/SgO5ObAIVl
— Ryan Katz-Rosene (@ryankatzrosene) January 28, 2020
Timely that a parallel event I am at shows that whilst nature is dying, CAP is still paying €2500 a hectare to irrigated tobacco farms in Spain. Meanwhile theres no #Money4Nature in the EU budget… time for politicians to put our future before private interests! https://t.co/BHEahRHcN9 pic.twitter.com/O0wJk1bdu6
— Harriet Bradley (@HarrietBirdlife) January 30, 2020
What happened when farmers in Spain were paid to maintain mosaic farmed landscapes like this one https://t.co/inAxCbfOZS @GanNavarra via @MORANEnv #NatureNow pic.twitter.com/M3xXuh285d
— john thackara 约翰·萨卡拉 (@johnthackara) January 30, 2020
Fantastic investigation into misuse of #CAP funds in Italy by @hanrobs https://t.co/senpNBKc2g
— Eddy Waxx (@EddyWax) January 29, 2020