Koen Deconinck

Agricultural economist at @OECDAgriculture; lead author of "Making Better Policies for Food Systems"

[Koen Deconinck @DeconinckKoen]

With the UN Food Systems Summit around the corner, you will hear much about agricultural subsidies. This can be a complex topic, so here's an explainer! #foodsystems

[FAIRR Initiative @FAIRRInitiative]

A FAIRR panel at #COP27 today discussed work on a 1.5C roadmap for global agriculture similar to the @IEA ‘Net Zero by 2050’ roadmap for energy. @ZitouniOuldDada, Deputy Director at FAO, confirmed work is underway at the FAO with the aim of publishing a roadmap by COP28.

[Koen Deconinck @DeconinckKoen]

@GregoryRHancock @wesbonifay This is amazing.

[Dan Rejto 🇺🇸🌎🍴 @danrejto]

Federal & state agricultural R&D is key to long-term advances in productivity, reductions in food prices, and climate mitigation, as our new @TheBTI report with modeling from Uris Baldos @PurdueAgEcon details. https://t.co/3BjOQ28ok2

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@boozecolumnist @RobinSGoldstein @wineecon

[William A. Masters @wamasters]

Love @ApolloSurveys' way of learning: a specialist identifies who & what to ask, then readers get to see the full range of scientific opinion.

Some Qs yield consensus with outliers, others a uniform distribution over a range, & some views are polarized (bimodal). That's science!

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@Matthuber78 @RUEcon

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@Unpop_Science @waiterich

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Air pollution from cars is terrifying. Just one Volkswagen diesel that cheated on emissions tests per 1,000 cars upped infant mortality by 1.7%!

It shows "moderate amounts of car pollution impair population health at all pollution levels and across the socioeconomic spectrum."

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@nomadj1s @RUEcon

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

An issue when comparing the average carbon footprint of food is that it hides the variation *within* a given food.

But the key message doesn't change: the 'best' (lowest impact) meats still tend to emit more than the 'worst' plant-based foods.

https://t.co/xslz3mXDMg

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@sfiscience @JacksonmMatt @games_to_change @GlennMagerman

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

A recent paper in @NatureFoodJnl claimed that 'global food miles' were 20% of food emissions.

And a move to local food was effective to address climate change.

But this is incorrect.

My article on the issues with this study & why this is not the case: https://t.co/ZEfgHAEODD

[Koen Deconinck @DeconinckKoen]

@profmusgrave Actually, @CharlesCMann 's books 1491 and 1493 are both terrific!

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@rodrikdani @Leigh_Phillips

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@JennyElaineG @EHAC_EDGI @ericnost @lfalvarezleon @DrKarenBakker @JJABlair @RebeccaLave @hilaryfaxon @Landstuff @ZeniaKish @l_haddad @foodpolicy_JHU - might be of interest to you?

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@RegScUrbEc @mattyglesias this will interest you

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