Good results from the 2023 CAP reform in Flanders:
CAP reform strengthens young farmers and smaller farms
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Good results from the 2023 CAP reform in Flanders:
CAP reform strengthens young farmers and smaller farms
vilt.be/nl/nieuws/gl...
@viltnieuws.bsky.social
Waarom bio een verkeerde keuze is om de wereldbevolking duurzaam te voeden.
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This is basically the premise for SSP3 "Regional Rivalry – A Rocky Road"
More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050.
If anything a call to expand semaglutide.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.
Here is what it means:
The image presents a data visualization illustrating the number of animals killed for meat worldwide from 1961 to 2022. It is divided into four sections: 1. **Chickens**: The graph starts at zero in 1961 and rises sharply, reaching approximately 60 billion killed by 2022. 2. **Pigs**: This chart shows a more gradual increase, starting from zero in 1961 and peaking at around 1 billion killed by 2022. 3. **Sheep and Goats**: This line shows a steady rise from zero in 1961 to nearly 400 million by 2022, with a peak near 1 billion. 4. **Cows**: This graph shows a slow but consistent increase from zero to about 300 million killed by 2022. Each section has a label indicating the species and the number of animals on the vertical axis, while the horizontal axis marks the years from 1961 to 2022. The bottom of the image references the data source as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN from 2023, with a CC BY attribution.
More land animals than ever before are slaughtered for meat
Great - although ambitious: EU aims for curbing food waste by 30% by 2030.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
First thoughts is that it’s like reading a knock-off Farm to Fork with less ambition
I don’t see anything truly innovative in there, besides some tougher language on trade and a few new strategies?
Curious to hear your thoughts
We don't talk about ozempic et al. enough in the food systems debate.
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...
Worth bearing in mind that Polity follows a robust coding process and this conclusion will have been reached by multiple coders.
They're not characterising early Trump II as an executive coup on a whim but based on clear, empirically rooted and long-standing criteria.
New paper says we're within 20yrs of breaching 1.5C...
TBH, while statistically this may be the case, it's worth noting that over the last 50 years the longest a record-hottest year has maintained that record is 6 years. Further, rate of warming is faster now than 50 years ago.
A sobering look at the impact of USAID's shutdown on food security globally.
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
The USAID-led Famine Early Warning System (FEWSNet) is "currently unavailable." This is the preeminent global early warning tool for acute food insecurity and has traditionally had bipartisan support in Congress.
static.fews.net
Madness
📝 How can #Flanders develop sustainable and mutually beneficial #international relations with Africa?
Today we launched our study with HIVA-KU Leuven for the Flanders Chancellery and Foreign Office at an event with the Flemish minister-president!
Find the study here 👉 bit.ly/4jAkD2U
📸 ECDPM's Geert Laporte is moderating a panel on Strategic Policy Reflections for our Flanders-Africa report.
w/ Secretary General of DKBUZA, Director General at DG INTPA, CEO of Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Deputy Director of Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
Thanks for sharing! I guess it's market share?
If looking at FAO production figures for 2023, African/Asian countries are rising in the ranks.
Might be explained by the price differential for beans. Eg, for Viet Nam, it looks like they produce lower-priced Robusta.
Risks and challenges in global agricultural markets by @worldbankgroup.bsky.social: Agricultural prices are levelling off.
Fertilisers are still at a high mark cf. 2019.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/developme...
The thing I enjoy most about this whole thing is that Von der Leyen clearly has no concept of the agricultural calendar & has not learnt she should not make big farming announcements over the winter period unless she wants protests (inc the Vision scheduled for Feb) entrevue.fr/en/agriculte...
A troubling chart — poverty levels in Africa remain high.
We aren't seeing improvements as the rest of the world. 1/