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Compassionate #meat eating – less and better respecting sentient animals says Joyce D’Silva
About 20 years ago I was commissioned to edit a book based on the papers from the Compassion in World Farming’s (CIWF) 1998 conference ‘An Agriculture for the New Millennium – Animal Welfare, Poverty and Globalisation’. The result was The … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged Agriculture, CIWF, climate change, compssion in world farming, Farming, health, livestock, meat
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#Potatoes – Crop of the Future? A discussion with Prof Anton Haverkort
Forty years ago, when I was working in Turkey, I met another young man called Anton Haverkort, just setting out on his career. He grew up on a potato farm in the Netherlands, studied potatoes, and came to Turkey to … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged climate change, Farming, food security, genetics, India, plant breeding, potatoes, Russet Burbank, Rwanda
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The complex world of #coffee from grower to drinker – an unexpected global insight in the Pennines
As a non-coffee drinker, I’m not the most likely person to go on a visit to a coffee roasters. But I’m glad I did last week. I learnt a lot from Paul Meikle-Janney and Damian Blackburn of Darkwoods coffee, a … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, climate change, coffee, fair trade, speciality coffees, World Coffee Research
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We can, but don’t, feed everyone on Earth and there’s #NoPlanetB to go to, says Mike Berners-Lee
We live in the anthropocene age. It’s a time when what people do changes how the Earth works – and whether it will be comfortable for us all to live on it or not. Today, humanity needs to wake up … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropocene, business, climate change, economics, energy, environment, food, fossil fuels, growth, inequality, money, transport, travel, truth, values, work
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Taking responsibility for a #sustainable #food future?
Whose responsibility is it to ensure we have a sustainable food future? That was the theme of this year’s food conference at Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International affairs – at the end of November 2018. The 6 … Continue reading
The many arguments for urgent #climate action – in 32 A5 pages
How do you convince governments to take more urgent action on climate change? When ministries spend so much of their time, as one ex-downing street advisor once said to me, firefighting the immediate problems of the day? The authors of … Continue reading
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Tagged civil society, climate action, climate change, economic development, ethics, food security, Gender, health, Human rights, mitigation, peace & conflict, UNFCCC
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It’s time to turn swords into ploughshares, bombs into bread, and soldiers into good Samaritans*
It is blatantly obvious that there is no military response that can defeat the COVID-19 virus. It should be equally obvious that military spending can’t deal with the other two great long-term, slower-acting pandemics – climate change and biodiversity loss. … Continue reading →