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 meat barons are playing with people's lives in the interest of profit, plain and simple' https://t.co/tuPa9Up73Y
— AgriLand (@AgrilandIreland) September 17, 2020
Yes, correct, A 12-story pig farm. China's solution to gobal pademics stemming from animals. https://t.co/kf9FaQ3ZHZ
— Shefali Sharma (@IATPEurope) September 18, 2020
.@jwojc opens Day 2 of #EIPagri seminar: #innovation plays a 🔑 role in addressing the overarching challenge of #foodsecurity. The CAP is an essential instrument to deliver on #EUGreenDeal & #EUFarm2Fork priorities. #AKIS are a toolbox to reach #FutureofCAP objectives. 👩🏼🌾👨🏾🌾🌱🌍🧰 pic.twitter.com/j3C6mBE2vp
— Maria Gernert (@MariaGernert) September 17, 2020
Here's one of the books I suggested at 'How to Build an Antiracist Farming Movement' with @LandworkersUK and @Jo_zinaC last week.
It's by @guyshrubsole, called Who Owns England.
***FREE audiobook ON @BorrowBox. Just need an english library Card number to access app pic.twitter.com/iK56aQmAMf
— Zakiya (@ZakiyaMedia) September 15, 2020
After watching #ExtinctionTheFacts narrated by David Attenborough last Sunday, we asked @SoDiscretion
their take on #overfishing as a small sustainable #fishery 🐟
Here's what Caroline told us:
"The small boats we use have next to no discards, use less fuel… pic.twitter.com/tCn0mWfrIK— Open Food Network UK (@OpenFoodNetUK) September 18, 2020
"As things stand" France says NO to the mega EU-South America trade deal, France's farming minister says
He cites rising deforestation in the Amazon rainforest as one key reason for opposing the deal, struck by the EU last year https://t.co/ENHIcgD69o
— Eddy Wax (@EddyWax) September 18, 2020
Farmers and foresters need to be “directly incentivised” to put in practice carbon-capture crops and other measures intended to reduce net greenhouse gases.@gerardofortuna has the details of the European Commission’s Climate Law update.https://t.co/hj6Sm0dYy6
— EURACTIV Agri & Food (@eaAgriFood) September 18, 2020
New research!
Animal farming in Europe does more damage to the climate than all the cars and vans put together
To tackle the #ClimateEmergency we have to start talking about reducing animal farming#FutureofCAP #EUFarm2Forkhttps://t.co/XjMvxFwcvI
— Greenpeace EU (@GreenpeaceEU) September 22, 2020
The #MissionSoil report is presented today at the #RiDaysEU!
🌱 Objective: ensuring that 75% of EU #soils are healthy by 2030
📖 The report outlines how the Mission Board proposes to achieve this: https://t.co/8C5YgxD25u pic.twitter.com/SfBC0lxyDg
— EU Agriculture🌱 (@EUAgri) September 22, 2020
Facebook suspends environmental groups despite vow to fight misinformation https://t.co/5httEeD60o
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) September 22, 2020
Robots gear up to march to the fields and harvest cauliflowers https://t.co/6SiLWWsWv9
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) September 21, 2020
It's been obvious from the start that land use is the European Green Deal's achilles heel but this is quiet something, how is it even possible for a Commissioner to abandon Commission position on such a central topic? https://t.co/IisnaIB84w
— Pieter de Pous (@Pieter_de_Pous) September 22, 2020
Bulk Carrier the Amstel Stork departs Foyle Port and Lough Foyle after discharging its cargo of Grain from Argentina The Amstel Stork is 200m long, DWT 60,400, built 2016, and sails under the flag of Panama. It is now sailing to a Port in Poland to reload pic.twitter.com/QXNxxjG331
— Aerial Vision NI (@aerialvisionni) September 21, 2020
12,000km later. This is how grain growers on the island of Ireland end up competing head to head with Argentinian grain farmers.. grain likely destined for our livestock sector @farmersjournal https://t.co/A3pnDj9eS0
— Stephen Robb (@StephenRobbFJ) September 21, 2020
Morning walk through #HNV farmland to clear head after listening to yesterday's #AGRIFISH council meeting on #FutureofCAP. Haunted by the word "compromise". Compromise essential in political negotiations but fear environmental ambition will be compromised into wishful thinking. pic.twitter.com/D3aKKsCoPU
— JAMES MORAN (@MORANEnv) September 22, 2020
1/7 Thread: the @EUCouncil proposal for the CAP (https://t.co/5qkuziaVf4) regarding GAEC 9 bears two conceptual flaws. First, non-production areas were proven valuable for both biodiversity and ecosystem services, while production-oriented areas like catch crops, are ineffective.
— Guy Pe'er (@GuyPeer3) September 21, 2020
Breaking: A group of MEPs from all major groups in @Europarl_EN is asking @EU2020DE to ensure that 10% of next #EUBudget and #NextGenerationEU goes to #biodiversity. To save nature and to fullfil the promises of the Green Deal, we need appropriate funding.https://t.co/SkZPBrzzHE pic.twitter.com/CnDaLgW8a4
— Andre Prescher (@aprescher_muc) September 22, 2020
The CAP must back High Nature Value farming to support wildlife. Marsh Fritillary is one of numerous species of animal, plant and bird life that depend on farmers. No HNV farmers = bye bye much of the special farmland biodiversity that we have. @McConalogue https://t.co/A9Z4u5WHaM
— Oonagh Duggan (@NatureNymph) September 22, 2020
First signs that UK government is getting cold feet in switching CAP support to a 'public payment for public goods' scheme in England, seems to be hitting on 'ecoscheme'-type payments to farmers with limited additional environmental impact https://t.co/vnb18BpKON
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) September 22, 2020
That's what the #FutureofCAP needs: #multiactor co-creation of CAP measures. #Operationalgroups are the ideal testing ground to make future beneficiaries enthusiastic and to ensure making of targeted and feasible measures #EIPAgri https://t.co/TXlXJJPda0
— inge van oost (@ingevanoost1) September 19, 2020
"Which rural is your rural?"
💡What an original and fantastic approach to the Long term vision for #rural areas: @MauraFarrelNUIG wrote a verse! #rural2040
Get inspired! 📗 https://t.co/3FIGUhFITL
@NUIGalwayRural @nuigalway @ruralnetwork pic.twitter.com/iKRINcewLv— ENRD Contact Point (@ENRD_CP) September 23, 2020
If we re-wetted half the area of drained peat soils = annual savings are estimated at 3.2 Mt Co2 Eqv. Spatially Management of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) = different strategies for various land management practices @lilianosulliva1 @Teagasc @PeatlandConserv pic.twitter.com/naD0XKC8h2
— Teagasc Environment (@TeagascEnviron) September 23, 2020