Indeed... but, as you well know, the 'solutions' proposed can distract attention from dealing with root causes... Real solutions are readily available but will require radical transformation of the greed society that's fuelled by corporate interests?? www.foodethicscouncil.org/opinion/the-...

🔥 Why This Matters Now: As the future of agricultural biodiversity is debated in international arenas, seeds stand as a living legacy. Defending them is a matter of justice. It is the defense of: ✊ Food sovereignty ✊ Rights of peoples ✊ Continuity of our collective history.

This🔑Guarantees seed sovereignty 🔑Builds resilience against climate change 🔑Protects agricultural biodiversity 🔑Keeps seeds and knowledge in peasant hands. While industrial agriculture pushes uniformity and corporate control, peasant communities are cultivating diversity, adaptation, & autonomy💪

including all the corporate-profit-oriented processes for which fossil fuels" provide power and inputs e.g. industrial commodity production systems. #biodiverse #agroecology can provide zero-carbon food for all, while enhancing #biodiversity but needs territorial, economic and social protection.

🚨 Did you know that food companies routinely make bacon look pinker by adding a chemical — nitrates — that increases cancer risk? In a similar way, global agribusiness pays ad and PR agencies to mask its role as a major emitter of greenhouse gases with a rosy glow.🐄 #COP30 buff.ly/HEpesbX

Agricultural biodiversity insures against uncertain futures  fao.org/plant-treaty/t…#ITPGRFAFA i#megadiversese Peru must also ensure digital biopiracy does not erode Farmers’ Rights and sovereignty @GRAIN.bsky.social @FoodEthicsCouncil.bsky.social#FarmersRightst#Agroecologyg#FoodSovereigntyty

"Agricultural biodiversity is not a luxury; it is our insurance policy against an uncertain future." www.fao.org/plant-treaty... #ITPGRFA GB meets in #megadiverse Peru @planttreaty.bsky.social @AgroBioDiverse.bsky.social @CoventryCAWR.bsky.social #FarmersRights #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty

Mark #WorldFoodDay and celebrate the majority world's food providers who, while respecting #PachaMama and #Nyeleni, cooperate to provide 80% of world's peoples with food through #biodiverse #agroecological systems and #FoodSovereignty eg: bsky.app/profile/fao.... @foodethicscouncil.bsky.social

🗞️ MEDIA The Ceylan Times published an excellent piece in last Sunday's edition, explaining what the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum is and why agroecology is the only way forward to achieve food sovereignty. Check it out 👀 #Nyeleni2025 #SystemChange

Casi la mitad de la población mundial vive en países que gastan más en el reembolso de la #deuda que en servicios públicos. Nyéléni: Resistir a la amenaza del sistema financiero mundial, construir la #SoberaníaAlimentaria. tinyurl.com/5346n2eh Ilustración: @tricontinental.bsky.social

How do we transform the global food system? @deewoods.bsky.social gives her take on what's needed in the second of our films for @foodequitycentre.bsky.social and @ids.ac.uk.

People working in food systems - those in fields, in factories and in hospitality need to have their labour fairly compensated. That's the key to transforming food systems for the better says @deewoods.bsky.social ‪from @landworkersuk.bsky.social ‪ and @grancomkitchen.bsky.social

𝗘𝗡 | 👨🏾‍🌾🍲🍃 Nyéléni Newsletter 60 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲 ➡️ https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/06/nyeleni-newsletter-resisting-the-threat-of-global-finance-building-food-sovereignty #FoodSovereignty 𝗘𝗦 | 👨🏾‍🌾🍲🍃 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

EN| 🇨🇴 Colombia: Recognition of peasants in the Constitution ✊ https://defendingpeasantsrights.org/en/colombia-recognition-of-peasants-as-subjects-of-rights-interview-with-martha-elena-huertas-moya ES| 🇨🇴 Colombia: Reconocimiento de lxs campesinxs en la […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

𝗘𝗡 | Agroecology Schools & Training Processes 👉 https://viacampesina.org/en/schools #Agroecology #Schools #PeasantAgroecology #AgroecologySchools 𝗘𝗦 | Escuelas de Agroecología & Procesos de Formación 👉 https://viacampesina.org/es/escuelas #Agroecología […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

“There’s no sustainable future without protecting biodiversity.” – @kentnnadozie.bsky.social, @planttreaty.bsky.social Secretary. On #BiodiversityDay, we celebrated the power of agricultural biodiversity to build a resilient world.🌱 Read more here ➡ bit.ly/4kqcdv1 @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

🌸 Happy #BiodiversityDay! @ipbes.net defines living in harmony with nature as living peacefully alongside all organisms, recognizing our interdependence while ensuring sustainability. 💫🧪 Together, let's conserve, restore & sustainably use life on Earth! 🌍

Today's #BiodiversityDay, a time to celebrate flowers blooming, birds singing, bees buzzing 🐝🐦🌼 But here’s the buzzkill: toxic pesticides are wiping out pollinators and destroying nature. The good news? We can still phase them out. More in our factsheet 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/u...

On #WorldBeeDay we celebrate the 270 species of bees in the UK, including this #Bumblebee feeding on Russian Comfrey in our plot, and ensure that both these and honeybees can coexist on our #allotment site by growing a wide range of pollinating plants. @vegplotter.bsky.social #Biodiversity

Discover the versatile Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), a North American native cultivated by Indigenous peoples. For cultivation, plant tubers in a sunny location during spring. These nutty tubers can be roasted, used in soups, or eaten raw. #JerusalemArtichoke #SustainableGardening

🐝 World Bee Day 2025 🌍 We’re buzzin’ to support Derry and District Beekeepers with funding for a solar wax extractor, thanks to The RiverRidge Environmental Trust. Proud to back local efforts that protect bees and boost biodiversity. 🌸🌞 #WorldBeeDay #RiverRidge #CFNI #Bees #Derry #Biodiversity

Bees and other pollinators work to provide us with: 🐝 More food. 🐝 Better food. 🐝 Increased #biodiversity and ecosystem services Protecting pollinators is important to us all ➡ bit.ly/3LNNYXy #WorldBeeDay @fao.org @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @bioversityciat.bsky.social @unep.org @ipbes.net

Happy World Bee Day! While weed flowers can provide for pollinators, native plants can support a larger diversity of insects, including over 600 native Washington bee species! #WorldBeeDay #agriculture #gardening #forestry #biodiversity #nativeplants

On #WorldBeeDay we celebrate the 270 species of bees in the UK, including this #Bumblebee feeding on Russian Comfrey in our plot, and ensure that both these and honeybees can coexist on our #allotment site by growing a wide range of pollinating plants. #Agricultural #Biodiversity

The New Deal for Pollinators aims to reverse this before 2030, by: 🌿Mitigating the impacts of pollution, including pesticides 🌼Restoring degraded ecosystems 🛡️Protecting habitats 🌾Taking action to protect the most threatened species

#WorldBeeDay 🐝

Recognising all pollinators on #WorldBeeDay, this bumblebee, on Russian Comfrey flowers in our allotment garden, is one of 270 species of bees in the UK. It could soon be joined by a few honeybees from our hives, if #coexistence -blind RugBee Borough Council lets us! #Agricultural #Biodiversity

On #WorldBeeDay, we celebrate all the pollinators that make our global biodiversity and food security possible and how you can help them! 🐝🦋🪲

Bees are sounding the alarm.🐝 Their health is tied to the way we grow our food and care for nature. @fao.org's Yurdi Yasmi explains what the decline of bees reveals about biodiversity loss — and what we can do to change course. 👉 bit.ly/4k6WAIL #WorldBeeDay

🌼 This #WorldBeeDay, let’s make our gardens count—for bees and people! It’s not just about planting flowers—it’s about planning for real biodiversity outcomes and community benefits. 🐝 Read more in Conservation Biology: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝 Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive. Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.

Hoy es el #DíaMundialDeLasAbejas 🐝 Más de 20.000 especies que polinizan el 75% de los cultivos que consumimos, sostienen la biodiversidad y equilibran nuestros ecosistemas Protegerlas es proteger nuestra alimentación, nuestra salud y nuestro futuro. #WorldBeeDay

#WorldBeeDay 🐝

What I remember with particular gratitude is his extraordinary environmental leadership, on what he called “care for our common home”, with the publication of Laudato Si’ www.vatican.va/content/fran...

A sad but memorable day - and the world will forever remember the highlights of the Pope Francis papacy, not least Laudato Si. www.justice-and-peace.org.uk/app/uploads/... Papa Francisco - may you rest in peace 🙏 @foodethicscouncil.bsky.social @ipes-food.org

#LaViaCampesina #17April ✊🏽🌍🌱 We commemorate Eldorado dos Carajás (Brazil) massacre in 1996 where 21 peasants were murdered while fighting for #AgrarianReform 🌾 This right & struggle is still criminalized globally. We demand justice & strengthen our […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

His essay East of Eden on Kazakhstan and the wild fruit forests there is one of my favour pieces of writing in on of my favourite books, Wildwood. What a gift he gave you to remember him by. I tried my first apple grafts this year, scions of Bloody Ploughman. Here’s their story. I hope they take.

“Grief, like an apple tree, grows crooked not straight.” Each year I mark the day when this little apple tree first flowers, & remember my friend the writer Roger Deakin, who brought it back as a pip from Kazakhstan, then died soon after. Full story here: emergencemagazine.org/essay/east-t...

Without biodiversity, there would be no food. Biodiversity depends on how we manage our agrifood systems and take care of nature. Our future depends on biodiversity! #EarthHour

How to apply recent landmark decisions from the Convention on Biological Diversity to the future work of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture was the recurring theme on the opening day of #CGRFA20 Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/un-fao-commi... #food #crops #DSI

They're fighting for biodiversity, for European heritage, and also for tastier tomatoes: our latest piece meets the farmers in Greece, Romania and elsewhere preserving "peasant seeds" against the odds unbiasthenews.org/seeds-of-res...

❤️Mexico City – On February 25, the Chamber of Deputies approved a constitutional reform to articles 4 and 27 to prohibit the planting of genetically modified corn, prioritize the protection of biodiversity and food sovereignty, defend the milpa system and promote traditional crops and native seeds.

@viacampesinabe.bsky.social @focussouth.bsky.social @rbalakra.bsky.social @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social @ginitastar.bsky.social

Seeds of 19 African tree species added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault ->Mongabay | #Seed #Tree #Species #Biodiversity #Forest | More info from EcoSearch

See: news.mongabay.com/2025/02/seed...

🌳 Did you know the baobab is one of the most nutrient-rich trees in the world? This "Tree of Life" provides nutrition, livelihoods, and climate resilience across Africa. Today, baobab seeds are among the tree seeds CIFOR-ICRAF is depositing in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 🔗: bit.ly/41kkDwI

Thanks ... it's pretty awful. One would think that would be essential knowledge for Ag Sec (I teach my students about agricultural biodiversity and heirloom crop/animal varieties).

#COP16 must act on Indigenous Peoples & Peasants' wisdom "... innovations that help Indigenous farmers identify the best adapted seeds for preservation can strengthen the resilience of global food systems and preserve biodiversity – including #agricultural #biodiversity – for future generations."

In Rome this week, @Biodiversity.int must assert the importance of monitoring #agricultural #biodiversity (the largest sub-set of biodiversity globally) in the CBD's Global Biodiversity Framework. See: www.foei.org/publication/... -and: openknowledge.fao.org/items/

"Movements that instigate real change in a local context have to be grassroots." 🌱 On the fourth day of our ‘Re-Rooting Agroecology’ launch, we’re sharing this clip from our ‘Agroecology as a Movement’ series, which meets the landworkers at Lauriston Farm in Edinburgh. vimeo.com/1058504177