1/3 of greenhouse gases come from food. Yet climate solutions often ignore food policy. The new Food Systems NDC Scorecard evaluates how national climate plans incorporate food systems as a diagnostic tool & a roadmap for policy improvement. #COP30 earth.org/why-cop30s-s... @earthorg.bsky.social

I've just come across this 2017 essay by Benjamin Kunkel in the London Review of Books and it blew my mind in many ways.. Highly recommend it. #anthropocene #capitalocene #ecosocialism www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3... @lrb.co.uk @kunktation.bsky.social

Great article by @jonhenley.bsky.social and Alessandro Gandolfi. A clear look at how the Netherlands is not only defending against rising seas, but also learning to live with the water — from floating homes to adaptive design. #climatechange #adaptation www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Across the world, cities are turning urban spaces into food gardens, teaching resilience & cutting food waste. Explore how cities are building a sustainable future: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/cape-town-local-communities-are-advancing-urban-restoration

What are the best books on agrarianism, techno-scepticism, creation care, and rurality? I give my opinions here: overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...

Farmers play far more than just a food-producing role—they shape landscapes, cultures, and communities. A new study in 'Agriculture and Human Values' explores how farmers see their future roles in balancing social, economic, and environmental goals. bit.ly/47LQlpT @bartoszbartk.com #farmsky

"The agrarian localist future, along with its attendant cultural habits and political and community structures, are systems we ought to be creating now—collapse or no collapse—simply because they are the most convivial and sustainable way of living on this earth and are the right things to do." 💚

European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨A new UN report warns that global climate pledges are still far off track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. This leaves the world on course for a catastrophic 2.5°C of warming. World leaders must scale up ambition and act with urgency. Our statement:

Why does family farming matter beyond food, and how can we help? Strong partnerships with family farmers can scale up agroecology, boost climate resilience, and drive sustainable food system transformation toward the SDGs. Read more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qcAN5L #Trees4Resilience #WorldFoodDay

🥣 Brazil’s recipe to end hunger is shockingly simple – and it works. 👧🏽 Universal school meals 💸 Cash transfers + minimum wage 🌾 Buying from family farmers 🍲 Community kitchens 📜 The right to food in law 🌱 Support for agroecological farmers ipes-food.org/brazil-beats... #WorldFoodDay

Great to enjoy a farm visit 🪱 organised by Évora University to see soil-centric approaches in practice on-farm, as part of the Soils for Europe Think Tank sessions – and work alongside Detlef Gerdts, Eric Struyf and @orsinyarai.bsky.social 🤝 #SOLOMeetsEvora #EUSOLO #Evora #HorizonEurope

Bom dia, Évora! 🇵🇹

Looking for reading recommendations this #BlackHistoryMonth? Explore our list of 19 exceptional books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by the LSE community.

#Soils teem with vital but underexplored #biodiversity that supports #foodsecurity and #ecosystemhealth 🌍 New Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory aims to monitor and protect worldwide. #SoilBiodiversity #SoilHealth #CBD #Ecosystems Full paper: www.soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation. Read more from @mongabay.com :

The EU must turn the #CAP into a #climate tool 🌾 It is time for European agriculture to cut emissions and help reach climate neutrality by 2050 🌱 Read our latest report with @ecologic.eu#CAP#climateo find out how ⬇️

🚩RISING UP TOGETHER – a webinar on uniting climate & #FoodSovereignty movements ahead of COP30. Hear from social movement leaders from Nyéléni 2025 & the People’s Summit Towards #COP30. 🗓️ 9 Oct 🔗 REGISTER NOW : us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #JustTransitionRising #ClimateJustice #DrawTheLine

Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a critical role in mapping and monitoring the state of biodiversity in their lands and territories. 🌎🔍🌿 Hear stories of the work by the Ogeik people in Kenya👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq... #IndigenousPeoples #mapping #localcommunities

🌍 Out today in 'Nature Reviews Biodiversity': We explore landscape multifunctionality as a way to address biodiversity loss, climate change & food insecurity together. Instead of siloed fixes, multifunctional land-use integrates restoration, production & well-being. 🔗 rdcu.be/eIL2g

Great news! The Welsh Government is to recognise beavers as a native species and award them full legal protection. This is great news for this wonderful mammal, which can help us restore our river and freshwater habitats 💚💙💚 Read more here: www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/news/beavers...

The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050. 🔗 bit.ly/3W7rxlP

New EAT-Lancet warns: food systems breach Planetary Boundaries. “EAT-Lancet 2025 places justice at the centre, not only as a goal but also as a vital part of enabling transformation,” says Centre Director Line Gordon, one of the report’s lead authors. www.stockholmresilience.org/5.5e96ff7d19...

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New @natureportfolio.nature.com cross-journal collection with @commsearth.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports on Climate adaptation and resilience in urban and rural communities, with Guest Editors Chenghao Wang and Edmond Totin www.nature.com/collections/...

This story isn‘t about ‘the world‘s taste for soya‘, it‘s about the world‘s taste for meat. The vast majority of soya is grown for animal feed. Less than 10% is for direct human consumption. A shame it‘s not mentioned in the story. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Achieving climate, biodiversity & pollution goals — while upholding human rights — requires fundamental transformation of food systems. Ahead of COP30 in Brazil, IATP joins nearly 100 organizations in a global open letter calling for a just transition to agroecology. ➡️ www.reimaginefoodsystems.org

'It just so happened that farming practices still common at the time—including spring planting of cereals, limited pesticide use, hay production and mixed farming—afforded space and food for certain wild birds through their life cycles.' www.wingedgeographies.co.uk/post/inciden...

Europe is the world's fastest warming continent, with climate breakdown, environmental damage and biodiversity loss putting ways of life at risk, says new @eea.europa.eu report

🥗🫀On #WorldHeartDay, 20 organisations representing civil society, health associations and medical professionals say it loud: Europe cannot cut cardiovascular disease without tackling unhealthy diets! Read the letter 👉✉️ foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

Happy (?) 17th birthday to the excellent "Wake Up,Freak Out, then Get a Grip" video of @crisortunity.bsky.social Posted online Sept 29 2008 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...

"Maintaining diversity within tree-based farming systems can provide households with more means to diversify their diets with foods from the farm & market. Preserving biodiversity within & around tree-based farming systems may also increase the availability of micronutrient-rich foods in the wild."

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Traditional values such as interconnection, sacredness, gratitude, collectivism, sharing and self-sufficiency have underpinned Amadiba foodways for centuries." theconversation.com/traditional-... Inspiring article on the values-based #FoodSystems of the Amadiba community in South Africa.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

"If you believe there is anything worth defending in society, then defend it. It requires active participation from all of us, building & strengthening relationships, decentralizing ideas & power. Community isn’t a player piano, it’s an orchestra, & it needs you on the timpani." Not just in Oxford.

This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species, potentially offering a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change for forestation, agriculture and land regeneration 🧪🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disinformation, false solutions, regulatory capture, oh my! See @drilledmedia.bsky.social's newly launched podcast series below where they dig into how obstructing actors use coordinated tactics across industry and policy to block the clean energy transition. drilled.media/investigatio...

🥬 The multiple benefits delivered by hedgerows: Where is the evidence and does it meet current knowledge needs? ➡️ buff.ly/eqvBpAG "Hedges and hedgerows have a wide range of benefits to the environment and society. We explored the research into these benefits."

Will prosperity ever be measured in health, not wealth?—Join @timjackson.org.uk & @kateraworth.bsky.social at The Conduit to explore an economy organised around care, not growth—and why it’s urgently needed for people & the planet. 🎟️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/the-c... #postgrowth #degrowth #WellbeingEconomy

Sharing this excellent starter pack on #foodsecurity and nutrition (of which we're happy to be part) go.bsky.app/9mZrrpQ

"Rather than being seen as a tangential problem, he believes boosting #SoilHealth is “the absolute front and centre of battling #ClimateChange. [...] This needs to be seen as a national security issue,” he says, “every bit as much as dealing with Putin." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."

⏳ With the #NDC deadline approaching this September, the clock is ticking. Strong governance through climate councils, framework laws & public participation is key to ensuring NDCs are investable, implementable & enforceable. Read more in our blog 👇 www.e3g.org/news/strengt...

"More than 1/2 of the world’s land has moved beyond “functional biosphere integrity” -– the ability of plants to keep the planet’s life-support systems running -- that could make it harder for nature to keep supporting human life." 🌍 www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

Congrats to the Andenes de Cuyocuyo Agrobiodiversity Zone in Peru on the @undp.org Equatorial Prize 2025! The award recognizes initiatives by Indigenous Peoples and communities that promote nature-based solutions to climate change. Proud to support the Quechua communities that manage it. 🌎

Indigenous Peoples manage 28% of the Earth’s land, including many of the world’s most biodiverse and ecologically intact regions. Their traditional knowledge is key to sustainable wildlife management and biodiversity conservation. Read more:🔗 https://bit.ly/4l5Fx9o #TreesPeoplePlanet

🌍 Development practitioners: facing burnout or seeking support? @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Natalie Cunningham is launching Communities of Practice to help build resilience in these turbulent times. 🧠 Open to current & aspiring professionals. 🔗 bit.ly/3QbXsc1 #DevPractitioners

Everyone needs to see this. The home of 2 million people turned to dust. While the world looks away. Or cheers on. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere