Devon Sampson

Writer, Agroecologist, Participatory Action Researcher

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

Can we just make “will you shut up, man?” the new Biden slogan?

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

@fredamoon Mune the guardian of the moon

[Maywa Montenegro @MaywaMontenegro]

Team of @sesync supported scientists calls on @planttreaty to recognize, legitimize, and materially support not just agricultural biodiversity but the social, agricultural, and ecological processes that continually produce and renew diversity, long term.

https://t.co/7uAw8cFuCo

[Raj Patel - also @rajpatel.org at bsky.social @_RajPatel]

At @IPESfood, @cadwego just used data from this pic to argue that conventional agriculture is vastly inefficient if you measure what humans eat rather than tons produced. Data via @enviroem @globalecoguy https://t.co/fhDNAIMbvN

[Sharon Lerner @fastlerner]

“Monsanto’s secretive strategies have been laid bare for the world to see” In large part thanks to you, @careygillam! Thanks for your amazing work on this. What a victory! https://t.co/JAvR2HZUYQ

[Maywa Montenegro @MaywaMontenegro]

Thanks, @EricLiptonNYT for continuing to cover what industrial agriculture likely wishes you wouldn't. "Court Orders E.P.A. to Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems" https://t.co/l1IoOoSB4x

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

Excellent question!

[Jonathan Fox @jonathanfox707]

“Ortega is winning the military battle, but has lost the war” - former Sandinista VP Sergio Ramirez - after 400 deaths in Nicaragua’s ongoing civic uprising (will the preexisting peasant movement against displacement converge w the student movement?) https://t.co/aUbk9UDTPZ

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

@SCsupport any plans to support all the new (as of iOS 11, a year ago) itunes tags in podcast rss feeds? Or to allow hyperlinks in show notes? I've been hosting a podcast with soundcloud pro unlimited for 2 years but these may force me to switch

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

Now on @deliciousrev: M. Jahi Chappell on Beginning to End Hunger, an interview from the #agroecology symposium at the @UNFAO

@mjahi @FAOnews @FAOKnowledge @CoventryCAWR @foodfirstorg https://t.co/CaR7wvCvRN

[Faris Ahmed @FarisAhm8]

@antidogmatist @FAOKnowledge Bring on the discussion on power! Yes, corporate power is a huge threat.
But let's affirm that civil society, peasants, small farmers are not powerless. We have power -- in our diversity, knowledge, innovation. Everyday we're wielding that power and changing the food system.

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

A good question at the #agroecologysymposium: “what do you mean that we need to increase food production, while there is already enough food produced in the world today, and much of what is sold in the name of increasing production actually kills biodiversity and resilience?”

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

Dennis Garrity of @ICRAF at @UNFAO #agroecologysymposium: even though agriculture is central to climate change, biodiversity, and development, #agroecology is missing from conversations in the international treaties. Agroecology needs to make noise.

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

Clara Nicholls at @UNFAO #agroecology: farmers are using agrobiodiversity to design agroecosystems capable of ‘failing gracefully’, so that one one component fails, other components continue producing food and other services

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

A recurring theme in this @UNFAO conference room lined with portraits of council presidents, all of them men: grassroots movements are working on gender equality and recognize feminism at the heart of #agroecology.
We academics, policy makers, funders must follow their lead.

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

The second #agroecology symposium at FAO begins with a packed room and talk of paradigm shift, transformative change, and a watershed moment.

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

Monsanto was its own ghostwriter for some safety reviews https://t.co/BNmb0rnywk via @BW

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

@MaywaMontenegro Oh, and let's not forget that it is a great letter: https://t.co/jrsyQRkD9T I hope this attention gets it out far and wide

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

For more on @maywamontenegro 's nuanced and insightful views on #GMOs, here's our in-depth interview with her https://t.co/kINnePgO6D

[Devon Sampson @devonds]

#deliciousrevolution interviewed kitazawa_seed yesterday for an upcoming season on migrations.… https://t.co/T0qKAi8Brd