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.
Our food system is in crises🌍🐷👩🌾🐦🦋
We have collected 12 stories of European farmers, businesses and cooperatives using #agroecology to change this😍🙌
They offer inspiration for the #EUFarm2Fork and #CAP. But will policymakers listen?
Find them all👉https://t.co/pUc1iv5nsz pic.twitter.com/FpfYd5MGDi
— EEB (@Green_Europe) February 25, 2021
There seems to be some misunderstanding circulating around the decree that the president of #Mexico signed on 31 December 2020. It does not ban #glyphosate nor #GMmaize, as the initial headlines read. Silvia Ribeiro of @ETC_Group explains: https://t.co/2BDLZhwaRj #GMO pic.twitter.com/LG6PU9yxq4
— GRAIN (@GRAIN_org) February 25, 2021
The Greens published a report on the systemic misuse of #CAP funds in Central and Eastern Europe – now Hungary has hit back, calling the report a ""tsunami of lies" https://t.co/bBJVnVm4oE
— Natasha Foote (@NatashaFoote) February 26, 2021
The greatest spectacle on Earth: the harvest in Mato Grosso State.#Agro doesn’t stop#AgroNãoPara#Brazil🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/WKJ7Mogqw2
— SLE Farms 🇧🇷 (@StaLuziaEsteio) February 27, 2021
Out on tour with my boss “Tuff fluff” pic.twitter.com/YDiINUhIzu
— Accumark Airspray (@AccumarkA) August 25, 2020
"It's really a park for everyone. Every time I go there's a community there who respects and appreciates the fresh healthy foods. There's a mentality there that people know to only take what they need." – Carla Smith https://t.co/ApAJHYF5HM @CNN
— Civil Eats (@CivilEats) February 28, 2021
Jo Newton discussing the importance of seed. https://t.co/MnNfU6u4vx via @YouTube
— Irish Seed Savers (@IrishSeedSavers) February 28, 2021
Eco-Schemes: Gefangen im Föderalismus? Die Verhandlungen zwischen Bund und Ländern gestalten sich schwierig. In meinem Post beschreibe ich die Verhandlungspositionen und leite einige Empfehlungen ab. https://t.co/7jR97Hl8gQ
— Sebastian Lakner (@SebastianLakner) March 1, 2021
So glad to share with u our 1stpress release of our EU project "Agroecology for Europe" #AE4EU aiming to build a #EUNetwork on #agroecology to accelerate the transition towards #sustainablefarming and #FoodSystems
🆕👉https://t.co/u05pskaQt7 pic.twitter.com/UCHWI8P69q
— AgroecologyEurope (@AgroecologyE) February 24, 2021
A carbon border tax on fertilisers? Think twice, EU told https://t.co/aBlE21HS88
— Joost de Jong (@j_dejong2) March 1, 2021
Beef is confusing. Is it always bad for the environment? Can it sometimes be good? What’s the most environmentally responsible choice as a consumer?
Maybe some basic rules can help.https://t.co/SfmVSwf7sm
— Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) February 28, 2021
👇 This "scrub" is about 8% of our total farmland and is ineligible for any payment. We could have cleared/planted it years ago and been paid but we're lucky enough to live in a SAC and want to keep it that way. Hopefully next CAP recognises this as "productive" farming. pic.twitter.com/jAPh29imKR
— Hannah Quinn-Mulligan (@hqmulligan) February 28, 2021
⚠️#CAP news – Portuguese farming minister @MariaCeuAntunes calls a 'super trilogue' with all 3 @Europarl_EN's negotiator (@UliMuellerMdEP @peter_jahr @EricAndrieuEU) to seek a breakthrough in the reform of the EU’s farming programme. More on @EURACTIV:https://t.co/PSE7OTvTXd
— Gerardo Fortuna (@gerardofortuna) March 1, 2021
Very pleased to announce our paper "Management of high nature value farmland in the Republic of Ireland: 25 years evolving toward locally adapted results-orientated solutions and payments” is now out #openaccess #RBPS @ecologyandsociety1 https://t.co/ioYS2T1THx pic.twitter.com/F0n3Als68P
— JAMES MORAN (@MORANEnv) March 1, 2021
"The #CAP is at risk of becoming a liability to EU credibility as a global #climate leader": https://t.co/zVqwVAcssN @Pieter_de_Pous @e3g @TimmermansEU @jwojc @vonderleyen #climate #agriculture
— Encompass (@EncompassEurope) March 1, 2021
The Netherlands offers one of the highest #CAP direct payment per hectares to farmers… and is also one of the countries spraying most #pesticides per ha 🥀
EU Sustainable Use of #pesticides Directive #SUD has failed to reduce Members States’ dependency on pesticides … (1/2) pic.twitter.com/gWzP27F5ef
— PAN Europe (@EuropePAN) March 2, 2021
Appraisal by @ClientEarth of spending rules for the additional CAP rural development spending funded by Next Generation EU finds an opportunity missed to strengthen transition to Green Deal https://t.co/hvhFljo8NY
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) March 2, 2021
Valuable reality check of the limited potential of short supply chains to increase farmers' income, feed cities and reduce environmental footprints by @Alssandrakirsch, in french but machine translation works fine https://t.co/axmZn3r1Ha
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) March 3, 2021
Whether agri-environment payments in the CAP should be limited to costs incurred/income foregone is often debated. In this post on the https://t.co/ZLZidbA3ti blog, Norbert Röder argues for a more relaxed approach https://t.co/CxZUzcIhWJ A complex post, not for the faint-hearted!
— Alan Matthews (@xAlan_Matthews) March 3, 2021
IFA spin. IFA say experience of results based agri-environmental schemes is positive. However they want scheme with base payment of 10,000 and results based payment after that. In reality that would mean virtually all payment would be a base payment and VERY LITTLE on the results https://t.co/wH0koSdNnT
— Ó Cuinneagáin (@MayoCorncrake77) March 3, 2021
My first article for @atlasobscura is about a rogue band of vegetarians getting arrested for illegally making tofu in the 80s. It's a strange, true story that touches on Big Dairy, xenophobia, and how prevailing attitudes shift with time. https://t.co/0ERNpaHm0q
— Diana Hubbell (@DianaHubbell) February 25, 2021