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🖋️We've written to the Secretary of State for Defra UK with urgent questions we still have about soil health, following its response to our report.

📩You can read our letter here: committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

🌱Find out more about our inquiry: committees.parliament.uk/work/7139/soil…

🚨Tune in to our session this afternoon at 2.30 to hear from Greg Hands and Mark Spencer on UK food policy.

Watch it live here:
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🌿 Join us in championing sustainable farming 🌱

We're fundraising to develop online tools empowering farmers moving towards sustainable pasture-based systems.

The campaign is live to April 25th - donate via
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Last few days to support (if you can) the wonderful charities who work so hard for climate, nature, health & wellbeing. So many need help, like Food Ethics Council Pasture For Life Stop Ecocide UK ClientEarth Bees for Development Centre for Alternative Technology RiverActionUK + more donate.biggive.org/green-match-fu…

We need to talk about food security.

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Send us your ideas + proposals for #ORFC25 by Thurs, 25 April at 12pm BST 🌾

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🧑‍🌾 Support Pasture For Life in their mission to empower farmers transitioning to sustainable, pasture-based systems 🌱

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Ministry of Imagination Manifesto released as the world goes to the polls. robhopkins.net/2024/04/15/min… via Rob Hopkins

Press release: European retail giants linked to dirty Brazilian cotton earthsight.org.uk/news//fashionc…

🍩🍕🍪 New factsheet

How ultra-processed #food is impacting ecological health and functioning, and driving the interconnected #biodiversity , #climate , and #pollution crises in #Africa .

ACBIO AFSA
acbio.org.za/corporate-expa…

Great fencing job lads.

No better visual metaphor for the attitude to nature from many around here.

🧵’EXTREME WEATHER COSTING FARMERS MILLIONS ’

BBC Wales News - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The effects of changing weather patterns cost farmers an estimated £175m in 2018 alone!

Report by Farmlytics commissioned by WWF Cymru 🌏 WWF UK

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‼️NEW PAPER: Is agroecology being co-opted? Short answer: YES (1/5)

Banning wood-burning stoves is a disaster for us. They are a key part of our net zero by 2030 strategy. Practical & cheap to fit compared to heat pumps etc. They provide hot water in winter when solar thermal can't. Island timber harvesting provides local affordable fuel & jobs.

'Forever chemicals' found in more than half of food and drink samples, testing shows news.sky.com/story/forever-…

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Nations Are Undercounting Emissions, Putting UN Goals at Risk e360.yale.edu/features/under… via Yale Environment 360