📢NEW REPORT JUST LAUNCHED
⚖️Who controls what you eat?🍽️
Corporations are increasingly shaping UN & government decisions on #foodsystems. This is hampering efforts to confront growing food insecurity, hunger & #ClimateCrisis
👉https://t.co/HxIzmSPRl8
OUT NOW ➡️ #EUMOFA's Blue #bioeconomy report focuses on #Algae through:
🌊🌱 The latest developments of algae cultivation systems
🌊🌱 Sargassum commercialization
🌊🌱 Seaweed as #bluecarbon
🌊🌱 Seaweed farming as a motor for regional economies
https://t.co/ABlitw59Rk
❗'Many baby food pouches, which are aimed at infants under 12 months old, can contain more sugar by volume than Coca-Cola'.
Shocking revelations as paediatricians slam high sugar and salt baby food >> https://t.co/pmOzGjkah5 @UKsustain@RCPCHtweets
Threats of ocean grabs are nothing new for the fishing community of Doringbaai. But TotalEnergies' upcoming plans to drill up to 10 oil and gas exploration wells have left fishers feeling rather uneasy as they stare their fragile livelihoods in the face.
https://t.co/p61svGwpV3
Read the blog post about our trip to #Senegal and our new project on the production of fishmeal and fishoil, and the devastating socio-ecological impacts of the farmed fish industry.
https://t.co/MNZ0rIA15V
#FarmedFish#FishMeal#FishOil
We are so proud of our brave fishermen #Arcturus The first boat to rescue people from the freezing water. We and our friends at @StellaMarisOrg will be there to provide you with whatever you need when you return home. Thanks to funding from @SWFPA We salute you.
A lot of Twitter response today to my Tweets about the Irish fishing industry. Is more realisation dawning about the Govt's poor attitude to the economic and food importance of fishing? Hopefully!Thank you to all responding. Retweet any or all to widen the 'community of the Sea.'
In no other country in the entire EU have young people worked so hard to have such an erosion of living standards in the last 15 yrs as in Ireland
The share of 25-29 yr olds with 3rd level
->42% in 2004 to 61% in 2021
The share stuck at home
->36-61% (highest growth in the EU)
Burkina Faso in the process of nationalizing its mining resources, Perkoa mine french officials destroy their vehicles before leaving.
Remember when Guinea voted for freedom, they destroyed their hospitals, tore down their phone lines, basically trashed the place in a tantrum.
Another failed COP will be catastrophic for people and the planet. 🌍
Today, we and 425+ organizations are demanding that #COP27 stand with the people and not Big Polluters' greed.
It's time to #KickBigPollutersOut of climate talks!
Join us 👉 https://t.co/Vv3qO29ldD
🏭REVEALED
Billions of dollars that @HSBC labels as “sustainable finance” is funding the expansion of fossil fuels, air travel and deforestation ⬇️
Read the latest from @jomoulds with @Source_Mat
https://t.co/aWDm8Gl4bl
Last Friday, I presented my report to the UN General Assembly. Here is a summary of my presentation on the food crisis and what needs to be done. 👉https://t.co/lAAFihpSBC
The right to food resolution will probably come out around December - let's hope the UNGA is bold!
Claims that Australian science agency CSIRO is being corrupted by the salmon farming industry.
Work that might produce adverse findings was avoided.
“They wouldn’t research the question of whether salmon farming is sustainable in coastal ecosystems”
https://t.co/LXAgukrOwu
Local communities in Cayar are unjustly bearing the brunt of #fishmeal factories harmful #ToxicWaste.
But not without a fight. The people of Cayar are taking historic legal action against them.
New report by @EUEnvironment#EIONET -Mapping potential environmental impacts of offshore renewable energy- a step further in Ecosystem-Based Maritime Spatial Planning for the #offshore industry 👇 https://t.co/isN5k7CE2P
Could you be our new Campaign Coordinator?!
We're looking for someone who is highly organised and a strategic thinker to coordinate an exciting and ambitious international campaign focusing on the fish meal and oil industry in West Africa.
Apply now! https://t.co/SFNI7KOy5E