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Who is shaping #innovation in #agriculture – and in whose interests?
Watch the launch of HEAD IN THE CLOUD, unpacking digital agriculture, power, and farmer-led alternatives.
👉https://youtu.be/lN8n6sGouCI?si=8hf4jkTQy1oujxGo
#Agroecology #FoodSystems #HeadInTheCloud
I am very happy to announce that within Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research (WUR-PBR) together with my colleagues Guusje Bonnema and Peter Bourke I have launched the new Research Cluster Breeding for Agroecology. Agroecology applies ecological principles to farming to create resilient food systems that support biodiversity, circularity, soil health, and local communities. This research cluster will create visibility and coordinate activities inside and outside WUR-PBR for the topics breeding for diversified production systems, the implications of breeding for (agro-)biodiversity, and breeding for organic agriculture. The cluster and its spokesperson Guusje Bonnema will function as a contact point for any research activity around these topics at WUR. You can get in touch with the cluster via her https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/drir-ab-guusje-bonnema
Happy to collaborate and spread the word!
"The vast majority of pesticides are used on crops grown for ethanol and factory farm animal feed.Factory-farmed animals are raised in cruel conditions,spending their lives on top of each other, covered in their own waste.Animals raised in these conditions are fed pesticide-ridden feed & antibiotics.And like any factory,these operations discharge dangerous pollution, driving a cancer-linked drinking water crisis in several states
Same in #Brazil #Pesticides #Agroecology
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/30/to-make-america-healthy-again-break-up-big-ag/
Pig Slaughter Day
RT: @LVCSEAf We are pushing for an alternative trade framework that prioritizes people, local markets, food sovereignty and #Agroecology over profit.
Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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