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.
Private markets promise farmers monetization of a secondary crop: carbon stored in the soil. But questions loom about data ownership, consolidation, and increased pollution in communities of color.https://t.co/geuZIOVBhW
— Civil Eats (@CivilEats) October 11, 2020
Real #organicfarming will deliver safer, healthier #food, #SoilHealth, clean water, humane treatment of animals (including humans), but needs a level playing field to thrive. Join this master class on what is needed and how to make it happen. https://t.co/spU3j1AJ6K
— Charles Benbrook (@chuckbenbrook) October 11, 2020
“Such a bioregion is a self-propagating, self-nourishing, self-educating, self-healing and self-fulfilling community”
https://t.co/zzSvqHyOa8— Daniel Christian Wahl (@DrDCWahl) October 11, 2020
Interesting new paper using large-scale social media analysis to capture sentiments and emotions towards precision agriculture https://t.co/QXRr3hYfy4 pic.twitter.com/Kmv1XnyFDn
— Robert Finger (@RobertFinger1) October 11, 2020
NEW: In May, the EU announced new targets to cut pesticide use by 50% within ten years
We've been digging into the pushback 👇https://t.co/HmTIXkE2ag
— Unearthed (@UE) October 12, 2020
The World Food Programme is a safety net in 2020 because of the long assault on peasant agriculture. Norman Borlaug, 'Father of the Green Revolution', got a Nobel Peace Prize for that in 1970. https://t.co/5h1nrueeIt
— Raj Patel (@_RajPatel) October 9, 2020
This is a beautiful photo essay about the wardens monitoring biodiversity on Britain's remotest islands https://t.co/D0GP2OgjI7
— Eddy Wax (@EddyWax) October 12, 2020
20% of countries at risk from ecosystem collapse as biodiversity falls, according to re-insurer, SwissRe.https://t.co/ol3kx7I4dD pic.twitter.com/YhTcTS30ZM
— Extinction Rebellion (@ExtinctionR) October 12, 2020
Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture
New report from our friends @GRAIN_org reveals how #capitalism is seeking to capture our #food systems and the impacts for the peasant #farmers who provide 70% of our food.https://t.co/OCuq1MIJTP
— The Gaia Foundation (@GaiaFoundation) October 12, 2020
Q? Are there 250 people who would buy together a decent sized farm to rewild it? €1000 each into some kind of Trust. #WestCork
— ByHedge (@ByHedge) October 11, 2020
Biodiversität und Management von Agrarlandschaften. Eine neue Leopoldina Stellungnahme @Leopoldina @RSeppelt
Hier der Link:https://t.co/vUdGXyZYpT pic.twitter.com/3bX9RJjrZP— Alexandra-Maria Klein (@naturealexk) October 12, 2020
How seaweed helps tackle climate change.
Seaweed is incredibly efficient at soaking up carbon for growth, with the giant ribbon-like fronds of kelp growing by up to 2ft a day. https://t.co/65tQb5Q94Q pic.twitter.com/BKZOjCIXoZ— Oliver Burke (@olivergburke) October 12, 2020
How this Kildare farmer is bringing biology back into his soils, one field at at timehttps://t.co/JedY5HGuny
— Irish Grain Growers (@GrowersGrain) October 13, 2020
How this Kildare farmer is bringing biology back into his soils, one field at at timehttps://t.co/JedY5HGuny
— Irish Grain Growers (@GrowersGrain) October 13, 2020
Very timely for the crucial discussion on aligning the #FutureCAP with the #EUGreenDeal: New paper on the role of #peatlands as #naturebasedsolution in the EU, incl. suggestions for #CAP reform. @NiallOB @SebastianLakner @WetlandsEurope @CeliaNysss https://t.co/qK1ZeXn5oj
— GreifswaldMireCentre (@greifswaldmoor) October 12, 2020
‼️ Last night @EPPGroup @RenewEurope & @TheProgressives struck a backward deal on #FutureOfCAP
If adopted by @Europarl_EN, this deal would be a big nail in the coffin of #EUGreenDeal, wasting 7 more years of business as usual which our nature, climate and farmers cannot afford! pic.twitter.com/MpzT0OOHF6
— Celia Nyssens (@CeliaNysss) October 13, 2020
THREAD on content of what EPP-RE-S&D MEPs have negotiated on the #FutureofCAP and why this surrender to intensive agriculture interests must be stopped
— Harriet Bradley (@HarrietBirdlife) October 13, 2020
Interested to get your thoughts @vanvlietphd & @paigestanley_ag on Gabe Brown’s #RegenerativeAgriculture farm & perspective. Is his food really so much more nutrient dense? Is his farm really that productive & regenerative?https://t.co/dkK6MfkYUg
— Ty Beal (@TyRBeal) October 12, 2020
I just published Regenerative Economies for Regenerative Cultures https://t.co/Sb0uDvchcA
— Daniel Christian Wahl (@DrDCWahl) October 14, 2020
THREAD: When examining the (likely) CAP proposals of @EUParliament coalition-parties vs @EUCouncil, one can see much similarity in the systematic effort to empty the #futureofcap of a future. Yet if I need to choose who is worse, my verdict goes to… pic.twitter.com/OgyqyJh1LQ
— Guy Pe'er (@GuyPeer3) October 15, 2020