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Agriculture, which feeds 8 billion people around the world, is one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change

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And the bit on UK media was very interesting. Nobody saying that media should only ask questions that politicians want asked - but equally UK media (across the spectrum) sees it as their job to rile politicians and create friction. These are serious times, and we might need a more serious media.

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youtube.com/watch?v=Cbd-... Ouch - another dead damn Doll. Loved Jet Boy on the Old Grey Whistle Test. RIP David Johansen

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My response to yesterday's shambles in the Oval Office, the latest stage in Trump's soap opera. Relations between Trump & Zelensky might be restored but peace deal will be elusive. The US is becoming a very different power. (£/free trial). Will update as necessary. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

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CCC's 7th carbon budget advice on agriculture & land use: - Overall, land use changes required over 19% of UK farmland (previously expressed as 'one-fifth' of ag land) - Meeting 7CB means a 27% reduction in cattle and sheep numbers between 2023 and 2040 1/ - www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Pause for thought. Yesterday the US voted in the UN Security Council with Russia and China to avoid sanctioning Russia over Ukraine. Who would have thought …. Now ponder how secure is UK science …

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CCC's 7th carbon budget shows how the UK can be just as self sufficient on food, & improve farm profitability, public health, reduce emissions AND cut land use overseas by –does quick sums– at least 3.7m hectares, an area equal to size of Wales & NI - important for global conservation efforts 🧵

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NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10

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Less meat (more beans) needed for net zero - great! Should be achieved by cutting industrial and ultra-processed meat products from diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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My piece in The Conversation reflecting on the implications of today's Seventh Carbon Budget report for land, food and farming in the UK. theconversation.com/the-uk-must-...

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I hope Poison Ivy is having a nice birthday today. I do so miss The Cramps

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Peter Perrett, Islington Assembly Hall

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More than two dozen scientists are urging the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) not to allow companies to use carbon #offsetting to meet their climate targets Read more here 👇 @jamesgyke.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social

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Reform UK’s Richard Tice says it’s ‘absolute garbage’ to say human activities are the main cause of climate change Heaven help us

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Unfortunately, I was one of the thousands of new USDA scientists let go yesterday. It was an absolute honor to work there. If anyone in the southeastern Michigan area knows of a role that might match my background, I would really appreciate it. Thank you for your support!

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It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

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In our latest blog, FFCC's Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown discusses the government’s response to the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Food, Diet and Obesity Committee’s Recipe for Health report, which included an “unprecedented analysis of food industry lobbing."

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🚨 Got my hands on a leak of the Commission’s Vision on Agriculture & Food - want to know what’s on the menu? Here I’ve laid it out for you on a plate, in my latest for @arc2020.bsky.social 👇 www.arc2020.eu/leak-a-sneak...

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Heard Peter Perrett and his son in session on the always excellent Riley & Coe radio show on Monday and had to buy this album, Peter is on incredible form. 10 out of 10 from me youtu.be/en5SlMaQoIM?... Link to the Riley & Coe session youtu.be/en5SlMaQoIM?...

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The UK cannot become a clean energy superpower without taking biogas seriously

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🎙️Fresh in your podcast feed. The very last episode of #FuelToFork. From 🐴horses to 🤖AI: @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social on how #fossilfuels shaped agriculture For 200 years, #fossilfuels have transformed agriculture. Now, BigAg is betting on big data. What does this mean for the future of food?

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How to monetise methane from manure - cutting edge thinking around biomethane at the Eden Project in Cornwall today

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There's been lots of stories about H5N1, but I've yet to see a deep dive into where it came from—which is also the story of how industrial poultry production methods are responsible for turning harmless influenzas into monsters. My latest, for @nautil.us: nautil.us/the-unnatura...

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Some big-picture global analysis of land use for food production from @ourworldindata.org

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For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors

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Tonight @christophehansen.bsky.social told AGRI lawmakers that he wants to look not only at agriculture policy, but also at environmental, climate and health policies to deliver a consistent simplification package. Deregulation in the making? multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...

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I'm giving a food thinkers webinar this Wednesday and exploring rapid food transformations. Open to all if you'd like to join! www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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🌱🌾 Hedges store more carbon than fields A new study found that soil under hedges stores 40% more carbon than adjacent grasslands, with older hedges increasing carbon stocks over time. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #Climate 🧪 #Agriculture

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I made a starter pack of UK agri-food system people go.bsky.app/3fUuUfJ

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Really excited that keynote speakers for LEAP conference on 8th April are @paulbehrens.bsky.social and Sarah Bradbury! Join us to discuss everything related to meat, dairy, health and the environment. Abstract submissions close on 14th Feb. Registration opens soon. @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social

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These losses put the sector and country at risk. I work in health, how can the UK increase the NHS workforce as planned without the staff to teach them? Where is the joined up thinking here?

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This week I have been accompanying colleagues who are at risk of redundancy in their individual consultation meetings. Grim. There are around 90 UK universities that are shedding staff at the moment.

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A pleasure to go for a stroll with CCC CEO @elpinchbeck.bsky.social to talk about the trade offs between nature and climate, what climate action means for the UK and the metropolitan fantasy of an unchanging English countryside. In the Sunday Times @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/b729...

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Lots of interesting people and organisations talking about EU food and farming policy have been added to this #StarterPack since the last time I shared it, so time for a little re-post as it's #FollowFriday 😊 👇 #FoodSystems #FoodStudies #Agriculture go.bsky.app/GGZk82Q

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With the beatific Stax-inspired "Knowledge," @edwyncollins.bsky.social lets go of his "old self" in favor of who he is today. I spoke with him and his wife/manager Grace Maxwell about aphasia, optimism, Orange Juice, and more for my newsletter.

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If you want a quick intro to my new ‘Just in Case’ report on civil food resilience, listen to the first story in Feb 6 BBC Farming Today: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m.... Food resilience ought to be centred on society, the public, citizens, us. Read ‘Just in Case’ to walk you through the realities.

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💬 Yesterday, Professor #TimLang published his report, ‘Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap' for the #NationalPreparednessCommission. Read here: nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications... To hear more from Prof Tim Lang, listen via: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Remembering Lux Interior of The Cramps who passed away on this day in 2009.

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Been reading through the Government's new Land Use Consultation. Here's the juiciest bits I've seen so far! An excellent, bold proposal to spare 9% of England's least-productive land for nature & carbon - restoring peat bogs & regenerating woods - & changes to ag land use over a further 10% /1

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No targets for aviation or farming in UK climate plan www.bbc.com/news/article...

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