Climate Crisis
The Guardian: Global food system is broken, say world’s science academies
Radical overhaul in farming and consumption, with less meat eating, needed to avoid hunger and climate catastrophe Read here
Food Production
Food Production
Griffin Carpenter – EU overfishing in the Baltic Sea 2019
More pretend and extend by the EU. And who is breaking the rules most egregiously? The Germans, who always demand that everyone else obeys the rules. Griffin Carpenter is Senior Researcher at New Economics Foundation […]
Economics
Jennifer Clapp – What is the financialisation of food and why should we care?
The financialisation of food and agriculture, and the impacts that this has on the global food system. By Merisa Thompson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield Professor Jennifer Clapp, Canada Research Chair […]
Environment
Nick Dearden: Tricks of the trade
Liam Fox is planning bargain-basement trade deals for Brexit Britain – but Labour policy promises to deliver trade justice and democracy for the many. Read here
Environment
The Irish Times: EU critical of ‘severe’ weaknesses in Ireland’s fisheries controls
This is the lovely thing about the EU. So many beautiful laws concerning car emissions, taxes, workers’ rights, financial regulation, etc., but so full of loopholes (especially when it is about profits) that no one […]
Climate Crisis
The Guardian – The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change
In Europe we shall have the same problem as people in Africa and the Near East are confronted with the devastation of climate change. Read here
Environment
The Guardian – Monsanto trial: judge rejects bid to overturn landmark cancer verdict
This is very mixed news. When things get tough for transnational corporations, the American justice system gets going. Besides, Germany´s pharmaceutical transnational Bayer still has the Trump administration, the Republicans, and of course the Supreme […]
EU politics
Griffin Carpenter – The accidental privatisation of marine life
How the way we manage our fisheries is undermining our chances of sustainability Griffin Carpenter is economic modeller specialising in environmental policy and natural resource management. His current work focuses on the socio-economics of European […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: The one good thing about Brexit? Leaving the EU’s disgraceful farming system
One could add the EU´s disgraceful global warming policy, or its disgraceful economic policy, or its disgraceful tax policy, or its disgraceful refugee policy, or……. Read here
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Soothing fears about a post-growth world
Last week Foreign Policy published an article I wrote titled “Why growth can’t be green.” It stirred a lively online discussion – and of course attracted dissenters. Among them was one Noah Smith, who penned […]