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The Netherlands boasts 12 million pigs, 3.8 million cows and 102 million chickens.
To lower nitrogen emissions by about 70 percent, experts are considering some dramatic scenarios — like cutting those numbers in half.https://t.co/5I91NpopNN
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) November 18, 2021
Ornithologists use former inner German border as 'natural experiment' to estimate impact of farm size on biodiversity. Results show that increase in farm size reduces bird diversity by 15%. Decline is the result of land cover simplification rather than land use intensification. https://t.co/uPPX5yT5qO
— Tilmann Disselhoff (@Disselhofft) November 18, 2021
If the European Parliament does not #VoteThisCAPDown, we might miss the boat for the decade when it comes to sustainable food.
System Overhaul: Making Food Sustainable ⤵️ https://t.co/kCF2mjWuYu
— Green European Journal (@GreenEUJournal) November 21, 2021
📻 Our EU podcast is back! 2 weeks after @Europarl_EN endorsed the #EUFarm2Fork, we asked @nina_holland from @corporateeurope, Martin Dermine from @EuropePAN & MEP @MetzTilly to share their views & tell us how EU citizens can influence food policy.
👂 https://t.co/HgP7iTfkA9 pic.twitter.com/4WLHZtwZz3— Slow Food Europe (@SlowFoodEurope) November 18, 2021
🇪🇺🙅♂️“I will oppose attempts in the #StrategicPlans plans to limit access to beneficiaries’ access restricted to certain groups. I will oppose any attempts at restricting access to small and medium sized farms”, said @EUAgri Commissioner Wojciechowksi. 👉RT!https://t.co/ezZyZrpsMt
— European Coordination Via Campesina (@ECVC1) November 23, 2021
🚨The EU Parliament just approved the new Common Agricultural Policy.
This CAP is a betrayal of European citizens.
It will use their money to flood their homes, poison their air and water, and make their planet uninhabitable.
Our reaction👇#FutureofCAP #VoteThisCAPDown
— BirdLife Europe & Central Asia (@BirdLifeEurope) November 23, 2021
'Agroforestry will increasingly become a welfare requirement for farmed animals – they chose to be in trees if given the option. Cattle in particular are given the opportunity to demonstrate their full range of behaviours. They are woodland animals' Andrew Barbour @FarmingReal pic.twitter.com/8rfUd8vLEJ
— Kirsty Tait (@kirstyMTait) November 23, 2021
So, @Europarl_EN voted today in favour of the #CAP package, wrapping up a 3.5 years' reform process.
Is it a reason to celebrate or to cry?
And what's next?
Here are a few thoughts (thread). pic.twitter.com/nRttFReF6i— Guy Pe'er (@GuyPeer3) November 23, 2021
The new German government wants to present, by 2023, a concept how to fully replace #CAP direct payments through targeted support for climate and environment measures (with effects for incomes). #agriculture @ArielBrunner #Koalitionsvertrag
— Konstantin Kreiser (@KostyaBiodiv) November 24, 2021
So, that's it folks – the #CAPreform is officially signed and sealed – now the question is how it will deliver, something the Parliament says it will keep a watchful eye over
Check out my @EURACTIV article & stayed tuned for another with all the reactionshttps://t.co/ZfVTWps5Zq
— Natasha Foote (@NatashaFoote) November 23, 2021
This CAP reform is a missed opportunity to support a transition towards the more agroecological and sustainable models deeply needed for Europe’s food and farming sector. Read more from ECVC and @foeeurope: https://t.co/hEc5WeRWlf pic.twitter.com/TYfN9nNKf6
— European Coordination Via Campesina (@ECVC1) November 23, 2021
Btw.: that's the 178 MEPs @Europarl_EN that showed courage to rejected a broken #FutureofCAP that continues with economically inefficient, socially unfair + environmentally unsustainable farming subsidies not inline with #EUGreenDeal. Thank you to #VoteThisCAPdown 👏 pic.twitter.com/wVg1HE2tbf
— Raphael Weyland 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 (@news_rapha) November 23, 2021
The soil erosion debt is 26 Gt & rising. With #EUSoils Strategy we want our soils to be healthy & resilient by 2050 because now 70% 🇪🇺land is degraded. @EU_ScienceHub established the European Soil Observatory #EUSO to develop land degradation indicators. https://t.co/IMEo2rz0Ih pic.twitter.com/3xR07QgsGi
— panos panagos (@PanosPanagos33) November 24, 2021
5 December marks #WorldSoilDay!
🐍🐛🌿🐞🍄🦎💧🪱
Ahead of this day, @FAO raises awareness about the importance of healthy soil and invites us to advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources.
Learn more: https://t.co/9x6VHOJai6 pic.twitter.com/nQ9KyleTyo
— ipbes (@IPBES) November 18, 2021
The new 🇪🇺 soil strategy🤎https://t.co/PTfSXomVyD pic.twitter.com/zjGEqL99MV
— alberto_orgiazzi (@lultimoalbero) November 17, 2021