Tomaso Ferrando

Research Professor @LDRG_Antwerp and @IOBUA. Legal Committee @GLAN_LAW. Working on & engaging with food systems, GVCs, law & finance.

[HLPE-FSN @hlpe_cfs]

This week in Rome, the HLPE-FSN drafting team is hard at work on the report "Building resilient food systems."

Different positions and visions are coming together. The team is shaping definitions, examples, and pathways, and identifying gaps in both literature & practice.🧵

[HLPE-FSN @hlpe_cfs]

@FAO @blaypalmer @UN_CFS @FAOstatistics @FAOSocioEcon @carlocafiero 🧵The team is making great strides in analyzing the structural vulnerabilities of food systems that shape the impacts of shocks and stresses on people and nature.

➡️Transforming food systems requires a holistic and equitable approach.

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

@NatashaFoote Zero risk, and its possible application, is the perfect way to reinforce Western exceptionalism, violate WTO (the deforestation criteria is replaced with legality) and promote forest degradation

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

@NatashaFoote They didnt ask for the 2 years delay because now the whole implementation is subordinated to the introduction of the benchmark system at least 6 months in advance. So, potentially all blocked forever.

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

Honored to be part of drafting team for 2025 @hlpe_cfs report. An intellectual and policy challenge to reflect on resilient food systems at a time of intertwined socio ecological breakdowns & cooptation. How to bounce forward and elsewhere rather than back to unequal status quo?

[HLPE-FSN @hlpe_cfs]

The HLPE-FSN of the @UN_CFS is thrilled to announce the creation of its new drafting team, which has been selected to work on the upcoming HLPE-FSN report on “Building resilient food systems”.

Find out more⤵️
https://t.co/fLiJnR9C8Y

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

"The promise of restoration should never be used to allow destruction".

As UN #Biodiversity talks continue, @DeSmog reveals the Big Ag, Big Oil, Big Pharma corporations lobbying in force for their profits.
#COP16
https://t.co/s45QLYmEUr

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

Financing just transition to sust & fair food systems is key & urgent.

But we hear the same mantra as in climate: funding gap; blended finance; de-risking private $$.

Subordinating future of food to banks and shareholders is not just nor fair.
@CSM4CFS @EU_EESC @eaAgriFood

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

Enrollment is open for 2025 winter/summer school on Critical Approaches to Food Systems Law and Policy.

Because law and policy alone will not revert the state of permanent food crises in which many food systems are, but we need more legal commitment.

https://t.co/PwQdO8k2S9

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

Israel must stop violent settler attacks on Palestinian farmers that threaten their olive harvest -UN experts warn.
Restricting olive harvests, destroying orchards & banning access to water sources is an attempt by Israel to expand its illegal settlements.
https://t.co/uzuck4yDZC

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

Join live or online! 24/10, 13:30-14:45 #CFS52: Right to Food & Conflicts.
Famine and starvation in areas of conflict, occupation, and protracted crises are serious violations of the Right to Food & Nutrition.
How to build global response based on HR?
👉https://t.co/7Z2KAuPUtB

[Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 @itranslate123]

If I must die, let it be a tale.

#FreePalestine
#Gaza

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

Glad to have been involved in the opinion. #JustTransition 4 agri-food systems must be pillar of EU future. For a systemic vision, redistribitive policies, the #right2food, historical accountability, and awareness of impact EU policies on global South. https://t.co/VuNEKA5zvI

[Cambridge Economics @CambUP_Econ]

From the new issue of @FinandSoc, Daniel Tischer and @ferrandotom explore 'multistakeholder networks, elites and sustainable finance policy in Europe': https://t.co/OrZMTrSJyg

#ClimateFinance #OpenAccess

[Michael Fakhri @MichaelFakhri]

Words can't capture aspects of the horror of Palestinian life during the current starvation campaign by Isr. Nor do words alone adequately provide a vision for a better future for Palestinians & the world.
➡️Illustrations from my newest report: https://t.co/KxcmvOjjF0
🧵 /1

[Tomaso Ferrando @ferrandotom]

@NatashaFoote From food systems thinking to agricultural exceptionalism the regression is clear. Not enough to talk about diets and public procurement when poor working conditions all along the chain, food poverty, concentration of mkt power and shareholders primacy are common features.

[GRAIN @GRAIN_org]

Since 2023, #Bunge, one of the world's largest grain traders, has been preparing to merge with #Viterra, an agribusiness company owned by the mining and agricultural commodities giant Glencore. Why is this so problematic for #foodsystems?
https://t.co/wp1wXfLHvR @JavierBlas @leahjdouglas 🧵1/6

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

90% of all labour that powers the world economy—and 93% of all manufacturing labour—is performed by workers in the global South.

Any political theory that does not foreground Southern workers as key agents of revolutionary change is simply missing the point.

[Crìsdean MacEanraig @NosrednehTemple]

Israel is still murdering Palestinian academics, and most Western universities are still staying silent about these crimes

[SOMO @SOMO]

🚨HAPPENING NOW🚨The US oil tanker Overseas Santorini, en route to #Israel and likely carrying 300,000 barrels of military jet fuel (JP-8), is running out of options to dock and resupply mid-route. Open thread (1/🧵)