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This 'destroy the rules' movement willingly ignores the actual cost: when business skips environmental rules, WE all pay with our health, polluted rivers and air + damaged farmlands.

Protecting the environment is protecting society. It's not a burden, it's the bare minimum. #Omnibus #Deregulation

🌐COP 30 Side Event tomorrow: Prospects & challenges for real people-led climate solutions.

🚨Frontline communities forging people-led climate solutions grounded in their lived realities & struggles for justice.

📢Join FIAN Colombia & allies to hear more.

#COP30 #PeoplesSummit #IndigenousPeoples

Today the European Parliament approved its Omnibus I mandate, weakening #CSDDD.

By siding with far-right forces and corporate lobbies, MEPs signal that EU values and the rights of women and communities in the global South are negotiable when they collide with short-term corporate profit.

GRAIN en la COP30: ¡Únete a nosotros en los siguientes eventos!
13 Nov, 2 PM hora de Brasil
📍Tienda Berta Caceres - UFPA Cupula dos Povos

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Beyond the buzz: analyzing actors promoting regenerative agriculture in Europe - npj Sustainable Agriculture npj Sustainable Agriculture - Beyond the buzz: analyzing actors promoting regenerative agriculture in Europe

"Since 2021, the number of new regenerative farmers declined, raising concerns that the focus shifted from farming to marketing driven by multinational companies."

#agsky #agriculture #farming

Big food's routes to influence at COP30

🚨 Big Agribusiness has come to #COP30 – and it’s not here for #ClimateJustice.

@desmog.com reveals 141 influence routes used by JBS, Nestlé, Bayer & others to greenwash their image, lobby for weak metrics & grab climate finance.

📖 Must-read: www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

#FoodSystems

At COP30, Brazilian Meat Giant JBS Recommends Climate Policy The world's biggest meat company, a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, is leading food-company efforts in global climate talks.

"This is the exact opposite way to really deal with #FoodSystems and #ClimateChange. These companies have too much at stake, too much of a direct conflict.”

#BigMeat #BigAg

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Medicinal Gardens Healing the Ecosystem and Indigenous Peoples - Slow Food The Purépecha people of Michoacán have an agricultural and food culture closely linked to regional tradition.

😍 We want more of this : in Mexico, young Purépecha leaders are reviving family medicinal gardens to save their ancestral health wisdom and fight back against the crisis caused by berry monoculture. #agsky #FoodJustice #SlowFood

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Who Owns The Farmland? Updated data on farm sizes, land distribution, & food production

If anyone still doubts how connected our food and climate systems are, this week’s State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report from the FAO is a reminder.

The 2025 edition focuses on land degradation after two years of emphasis on true cost accounting.

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Cuba’s New Chapter in Agroecology - Slow Food Decree No. 128 on Agroecology, published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba, set a new course for the country’s food system.

🥳 HUGE win! Cuba just made history by formalizing #agroecology as national law (Decree No. 128). And this isn't a top-down reform, but the institutionalization of a powerful, people-led movement that's been growing for over 30 years. Farmers leading policy! #agsky

How to Eat an Elephant In big chomps...

Yup, this week's title is a play on that famous saying. But my answer differs from the usual one, which is "one bite at a time".

This is because we're talking about a different elephant here: power in food systems, who has it, who doesn't, and how to tackle it.

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🍏 Agroecology promotes sustainable diets 🥬

💡 Learn more at https://agroecologymap.org/l/369

#Agroecologia #Permacultura #Agrofloresta #SoberaniaAlimentar #Agroecology #Permaculture #Agroforestry #FoodSovereignty #SustainableFarming #Agroécologie #Permaculture #Agroforesterie

‘Green desert’: the farmers winning a battle with Brazil’s wood-pulp giant Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantations

When local communities win their lands back from giant corporations to grow real food, you know it is a very good day 🤩 #FoodJustice

Intensive livestock farms fail to declare climate impacts in ‘emissions scandal’ Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data

This megafarm "emissions scandal" is agribusiness hiding 634k tonnes CO2 + outsourcing deforestation costs (Amazon soy feed) to maximize profit. This isn't just about pollution; it's about a deeply unfair system. Shout out to local residents for refusing this 👏

Systems Change Now or Never - A note from the Third Nyéléni Global Forum Raj Patel presents an analysis of how household and sovereign debt enforces a neo-colonial system of exploitation and how global social movements are organising for debt justice as the foundation for ...

"If food sovereignty means having local control over food systems, how can we do that if we're all in debt?" With the 2025 Nyéléni Forum in Sri Lanka as a backdrop, Raj Patel argues that debt is the central mechanism maintaining a neo-colonial food system. progressive.international/wire/2025-11...

EU countries agree weakened 2040 climate goal and target for COP30 The deal avoids the EU going empty handed to the COP30 climate summit starting on Nov. 10.

We can’t solve the #ClimateCrisis by outsourcing pollution. We need real change at home!

📢 That means ditching the industrial model + financing #agroecology + freeing #FoodSystems from fossil fuel dependency + rejecting false solutions like carbon offsets.

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What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled? What does Europe look like when independent civil society is silenced, sidelined or slowly starved out of existence? This is not dystopian fiction. It is the logical end-point of a trend already visib...

"Democracy is not a once-every-four-years exercise. Civil society is how people’s concerns reach power between elections – turning participation into accountability and preventing democracy from becoming a spectator sport."
Spot on op-ed by colleagues at @eeb.org 👇
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Coffee: From Economic Neocolonialism to Fair Price - Slow Food Behind every purchased cup or bag lies a long, often opaque, agricultural, industrial, and commercial chain.

☕ "We don’t haggle over cents at the expense of producers. #Coffee is not a bargain-basement product—it’s craft, culture, and livelihood."

Ethical roasters are rejecting the colonial mindset and paying producers what they're worth.

Find out how 👇 #CoffeeNerds

Transparency demanded as trust in food system declines Consumers want transparency in the food system. But what kind of transparency? Data has found that sustainability and health are central to consumers' concerns, whereas they have a lot more trust when...

Distrust is soaring because people feel powerless against ultraprocessed foods + green & healthwashing.

Transparency isn't about better tech; it's about giving consumers back the control to choose truly good, clean #food.

#UPF #Labelling
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Hey New York friends! I hope you can attend this book talk I'm doing on Nov. 19, 6 pm at @nysoclib.bsky.social. I'll be in conversation with @slowfoodhq.bsky.social NYC's Richa Mehta!

#reapingwhatshesows
@melvillehouse.bsky.social
#newbook

From Care to Connection: How Solidarity Grows Through Food - Slow Food The word solidarity has been used so often it risks losing weight. But rural communities remind us that it is not an abstract concept — it lives in everyday acts of care that help people stand togethe...

Nearly 40% of the world's workers are in #FoodSystems. What keeps them strong against #climate & inequality?

🤝 Solidarity. It’s an act of belonging, not charity.

Read the story of our community in #SlowFood Kenya 👇
www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...

Ombudsman probes Commission over red-tape-cutting chats with industry The watchdog is examining a complaint that the executive has been “evasive” about its meetings with lobbyists.

The EU's watchdog is finally launching an inquiry into the EU Commission's secretive meetings with big business lobbyists on the 'simplification agenda.' 🧐

When controversial, rushed policy changes are being made, the public deserves more than a vague summary.

Raise our forks for diversity! We are at crossroads for the future of our food: the EU is currently negotiating new rules for the seed market. The current rules, introduced in the 1960s, promote seeds that were developed for indust...

The EU is currently negotiating new rules for the seed market. Groups are calling on EU decision makers to not succumb to the industry's pressure, but to protect and promote crops diversity and farmers’ right to harvest, use, exchange and sell their seed!
👉🏽mitmachen.arche-noah.at/en/raise-our...

Terra Madre 2025: Dig Into Asia-Pacific’s Largest Sustainable Gastronomy Event This November The world’s largest sustainable gastronomy event in Asia-Pacific is set to unite thousands in Bacolod City, championing good, clean, and fair food.

🐌 Very proud to see #TerraMadre landing in Asia-Pacific!

Our communities there will host 2,000 delegates from 20+ countries (from Japan to New Zealand):

📍 in Bacolod, Philippines
🗓️ Nov 19-23, 2025

This is historic step for the #SlowFood movement!

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30 Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.

#COP30, where the world’s biggest meat & dairy producers will explain how they are the real #climate heroes. 🐄🔥

Let the #greenwashing games begin...

A must read by @desmog.com.web.brid.gy 👇👀

www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...

EU faces tough choices on farm policy, new study shows The study examines how different directions for the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) could affect farmers, consumers, the environment, and global trade.

The "productivity vs. environment" debate is a false choice. If we don't address ecological damage & #biodiversity loss NOW, productivity WILL crash. You can't produce food from exhausted soil or with a broken #climate. EU leaders need to see the whole picture!

How NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy The playbook is brutally efficient: fabricate a scandal, delegitimise and defund organisations into dependency on philanthropic support, then criminalise their new funding as foreign influence — all w...

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❓ How Europe is killing its NGOs

✒️ In his latest column for @euobserver.com, Prof. @alemanno.bsky.social, unveils how national governments and EU institutions are attacking CSOs while continuing to demand NGOs services.

🗞️ Read more: euobserver.com/eu-political...

Long-read whole genome sequencing the only way to confirm absence of foreign DNA in gene-edited products New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. Report: Claire Robinson

Long-read whole genome sequencing the only way to confirm absence of foreign DNA in (new #GMO) gene-edited products. New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

📢 Food is a human right, not a commodity! This October, our communities mobilized for the EU Action Days with 1 message for EU leaders: public money must support fair farmer incomes & healthy food for all. @gfgf-europe.bsky.social

All highlights 👇 www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...

#FoodJustice