Economics
Fierce Pharma: Bayer expects gloomier 2023 as lower glyphosate sales bolster breakup advocates’ case
Cancer out of the bottle loses popularity Read HERE
Food Production
Climate Crisis
Sofia Monsalve, Shalmali Gutta – Corporate Takeover of the Global Food System Should Not Get UN Approval
The U.N. should address issues such as land concentration, so that peasant agroecology can have a real chance to flourish and make a significant contribution to tackling hunger, climate change, and biodiversity loss Sofia Monsalve […]
Climate Crisis
Jem Bendell – Q&A about the book Breaking Together
Prof Jem Bendell took questions from participants in the Deep Adaptation Leadership group on LinkedIn about his new book. Thanks to many generous donors BRAVE NEW EUROPE will be able to continue its work for […]
Climate Crisis
GPEnewsdocs – Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive says Economist Jayati Ghosh
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policy makers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems and a managed transition to healthy sustainable patterns […]
Climate Crisis
Kelly Macnamara – Researchers: We’ve Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide
Simultaneous floods in major food producing regions could seriously undermine global food supply. Published by ‘Science Alert’. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Lighthouse Reports: Europe’s Potemkin Lobby
Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds Read HERE
Environment
GPEnewsdocs – Laurent Gaberell: An EU Double Standard With Massive Impact on the Global Environment
The European Union is exporting more than 10,000 tons of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides a year to megadiverse countries despite having banned these chemicals from its own farms to protect pollinators Laurent Gaberell is a member […]
Economics
Wyn Grant, Alan Greer: How has UK agricultural policy changed since Brexit?
Processes of de-Europeanisation in the British agricultural sector have been uneven following the UK’s exit from the EU, with significant divergence in some areas and continuity in others. Read HERE Des Blenkinsopp/Wikimedia Commons
Climate Crisis
Unearthed – EU sending huge quantities of banned, bee-killing pesticides to poorer countries
Investigation shows for first time the full scale of the EU’s trade in neonicotinoids it has branded a global threat to biodiversity and food security By Crispin Dowler Cross-posted from Unearthed The European Union is […]
Environment
Richard Gregory: Europe has lost over half a billion birds in 40 years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers
Destroying Europe’s biodiversity is not just about endangered species – it will ultimately undermine the basis for food production Richard Gregory is honorary professor of Genetics, Evolution & Environment at University College London. Cross-posted from […]