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.
All you need to know about yesterday's tectonic shift on new genomic techniques (NGTs) caused by the much-awaited study drafted by the European Commission. Bylines: your beloved @EURACTIV's agrifood team, @NatashaFoote and mehttps://t.co/hlrgzp8U9W
— Gerardo Fortuna (@gerardofortuna) April 30, 2021
The European Commission has fallen hook, line and sinker for the biotech industry’s spin, and has set the future of food and farming in the EU down a dark path.
They are suggesting tearing up decades of the precautionary principle. https://t.co/yZFhSt7Vpo https://t.co/0XR4pg3VGE
— Friends of the Earth Europe🌍 #BlackLivesMatter (@foeeurope) April 29, 2021
With the European Commission launching its Technical Guidance Handbook on setting up and implementing carbon farming initiatives today, this skeptical view of the value of carbon farming in an Australian context by Professor @dpannell66 is worth reading https://t.co/PcwjkGCqiJ
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) April 28, 2021
Local raised bog. Bog was torched last year, makes it easier to harvest turf… not a skylark to be heard…. pic.twitter.com/r8V0i1Ah7h
— Ó Cuinneagáin (@MayoCorncrake77) April 28, 2021
As @beuc DG, I come across most creative, sometimes dirty lobby arguments used by corporate representatives. The more desperate they are, the more scandalous the argument. Think I am going to start a #DesperateLobbyTricks series. Feel free to contribute. Here's one for a start
— monique goyens (@moniquegoyens) April 28, 2021
Ireland will enact EU rules against unfair trading practices (UTP) in agri-food supply chains by July 2021
By 21 December 2021, all member states are required to introduce the UTP rules into national legislation https://t.co/ez4DdxFV3n
— Steve Gillman (@SteGillman) April 29, 2021
.@ENRD_CP thematic group report on using the CAP Strategic Plans to upscale sustainable agricultural and forestry practices, with examples https://t.co/bYFWTWGeVZ
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) April 28, 2021
Commission publishes Technical Guidance Handbook on setting up and implementing results-based carbon farming mechanisms in the EU. Important input into Commission plan to launch carbon farming initiative by end of 2021 https://t.co/HF4sfqKbQq
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) April 28, 2021
The fires of April have been heart breaking to watch. There is however an integral connection with the policies that causes these fires and those that destroy our rivers. They are 2 sides of the same coin, the blank they inhabit is livestock agriculture.
— Lee Forum (@_LEEForum) April 27, 2021
There is a 5.5 billion ton gap between the emissions acknowledged by the world’s nations and those measured by independent models—a gap as big as the annual emissions of the United States, the world’s second biggest emitter. (1/3) https://t.co/2mvkePgFjA
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) April 26, 2021
Remember:
1. Global crop failures by 2°C.
2. Most humans dead by 4°C.
3. Earth uninhabitable by 6°C.
4. We risk 2°C by 2035.
5. We risk 4°C by 2065.
6. We risk 6°C by 2095.One tweet is worth a million newspaper front pages.
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) April 24, 2021
VERY FEW people get the details around cattle + climate change correct. This blog from @GlobalEcoGuy is maybe the only public-facing article I have ever seen to both succinctly detail the (whole) argument without falling into messaging traps. https://t.co/CHlXfB2qNF
— Paige Stanley (@paigestanley_ag) April 26, 2021
The top 10 dairy groups now milk 1,000,000 cows as Farm consolidation rolls on. China, US, Russia and Saudi Arabia lead the pack with mega dairy farms https://t.co/M7YpgnsK2l by Aidan Connolly
— NYFarmer (@NYFarmer) April 23, 2021
Reading the commentary on the AgFood 2030 Strategy and what’s remarkable is what’s missing – the humble oul eejit in the wellies! Farmers are taken for granted as just another passive cog in the machine, instead of the ones who’ll turn fancy words into real environmental action
— Kieran Sullivan (@kieran_sullivan) April 23, 2021
🌱 #CAP talks: The 🇵🇹 presidency looks for the middle road by upping the @EUCouncil position on eco-scheme ring-fencing to 25%. Will EU ministers take the bait?@gerardofortuna reports.https://t.co/bEDvauurst
— EURACTIV (@EURACTIV) April 25, 2021
The concept of net zero is a dangerous trap. Fully agree!
Let's apply the same logic to ''no net loss'', allowing the destruction of highly valuable natural habitats in return to restoring highly degraded ones.
In many areas we need ''no loss'', full stop. https://t.co/FtS9JDXGf0— Guy Pe'er (@GuyPeer3) April 24, 2021