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Agroforestry combines trees 🌳 with crops 🌾 or livestock. This simple but effective process is more productive, better for #wildlife and healthier for the planet than other types of #farming 🌍 But only 3% of the UK’s farmland practices #agroforestry 🤔 https://t.co/4C3m6NfOmY pic.twitter.com/9Yn4V3mflR
— Soil Association (@SoilAssociation) November 5, 2020
The WTO (not the WHO!) issues a paper emphasising the risk that animal diseases pose to human health in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and discussing the role that trade measures can play in building resilience https://t.co/be2zgCsU68
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) November 9, 2020
Final CAP deal can still be fit for purpose, von der Leyen replies to Greens https://t.co/qC51YskDxt
— EURACTIV Agri & Food (@eaAgriFood) November 9, 2020
ICYMI – even if all fossil fuel emissions stopped tomorrow, the food system's GHGs would make the planet uninhabitable. Can't prevent catastrophic climate change w/o radical change in what's grown and eaten. https://t.co/FD8UpTBw7L pic.twitter.com/JLURdNtYH9
— Raj Patel (@_RajPatel) November 7, 2020
One in three acres in the West Highlands and Islands between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries was purchased using slavery-derived wealth, according to a new report by @IainMacKinnon75 and @HearaichHerald, published today by @CommunityLandSc. pic.twitter.com/GuyzvFZobk
— Ruairidh Maciver (@RuairidhMaciver) November 10, 2020
Diversified agriculture enhances ecosystem services without compromising yield.
✅ biodiversity
✅ pollination
✅ pest control
✅ nutrient cycling
✅ soil fertility
✅ water regulation
✅ yield(based on 5,188 studies with 41,946 comparisons)https://t.co/K8gvqtn8z5
— Joel Williams (@IntegratedSoils) November 10, 2020
This is good news for nature. Never before has there been a dedicated funding target for biodiversity in the #EUBudget. From 2024 it will be there at 7.5%, 10% in 2026 pending final sign off. Now natl MFF spend plans must take this into account. https://t.co/jIktHxjhB3
— Oonagh Duggan (@NatureNymph) November 10, 2020
Parliament and Council reach political agreement to bring forward €8 billion Next Generation EU funding for rural development to 2021 and 2022, minimum share of 37% for agri-environment-climate and MSs must maintain at least their current share https://t.co/hNE7QBHUVf
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) November 10, 2020
While we must reduce EU farmers’ dependency on #pesticides, the way forward is not concentrating EU funding on machines driven by satellites & giving data ownership to multinationals.
📌our position on #precisionfarming https://t.co/NIrKTfEDZ2 #SustainableFarming #FutureofCAP pic.twitter.com/QdxTRw4pvq— PAN Europe (@EuropePAN) November 10, 2020
As a progressive who has spent years working on the rural vote, this is the graph that keeps me up at night. Only 34% of rural White voters think @JoeBiden cares about them. But, 59% of rural White voters think Donald Trump cares about them. This is why Democrats lose. pic.twitter.com/Ei4G4tpSO5
— Matt Hildreth (@mhildreth) November 9, 2020
Negative emissions technologies sound great but it would be a "high risk" strategy to rely on them to any significant extent. Study led by Barry McMullin @autofac https://t.co/iU8D2zmoCA
— Caroline O'Doherty (@codohertynews) November 11, 2020
Excited to share our comment in @NatureFoodJnl https://t.co/0Ns2etctf1 (free to read 👉 https://t.co/NvUwIlHgda) Here we discuss the environmental costs of discarding food before entering the market in water-limited #drylands Want to know +? Keep reading👇1/12 #ZeroHunger #SDG2 pic.twitter.com/saPmTpFBQC
— Fernando T. Maestre (@ftmaestre) November 11, 2020
We share your disappointment @TimmermansEU! Don't let EU citizens down: #withdrawthecap and protect #biodiversity and people's health!
✍️https://t.co/JJOTbZx8k9 pic.twitter.com/CUsNK23ovT
— Save Bees and Farmers ECI (@BeesEci) November 12, 2020
Today, Commissioner @jwojc and I started negotiations with @Europarl_EN and @EUCouncil on the Common Agricultural Policy. The Commission will be an honest broker and driving force for greater sustainability in the #CAP to deliver on the #EUGreenDeal objectives. pic.twitter.com/v7cxICdiHS
— Frans Timmermans (@TimmermansEU) November 10, 2020
Food system resilience has moved up the agenda in light of Covid-19. Here is a contribution by @BettinaRudloff "Challenges for a coherent approach to food system resilience within the EU" https://t.co/UFIzCA14Xz
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) November 12, 2020
In their push to spread the word about forest farming, green-leaf harvesting, and other strategies for conserving ginseng, researchers are working to win over a number of stakeholders: government authorities, Chinese consumers, and local sang hunters.https://t.co/fexiL5MZzt
— Undark Magazine (@undarkmag) November 12, 2020
— Guy Pe'er (@GuyPeer3) November 12, 2020
🤬4 million pigeons, 1.5 million Starlings, 800k geese, 400k Great Cormorants… our report found that 14 MILLION BIRDS were killed over study period by abusing Birds Directive derogations‼️
This is unacceptable. Check our summary report here. https://t.co/VGSnV58Cjd pic.twitter.com/SrAOcJM5wd— Iván Ramírez (@_Ivan_Ramirez) November 12, 2020