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Five reasons why big agribusiness loves the House Farm Bill
From Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy by Ben Lilliston Most of us were fast asleep in the early hours…
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Post-election battlegrounds for climate and social justice
From People and Nature On 4 July, the climate-trashing Tory government will be replaced, as good as certainly by Keir…
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The crises of Welsh agriculture
By Sean Thompson In February, Rishi Sunak was accused of pandering to extremists by both farmers and environmental groups in…
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The Next Mass Extinction?
From NY Review of Books Oliver Whang As avian influenza spreads to the farthest reaches of the planet, scientists have…
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Moving to a sustainable system of food production within a degrowth paradigm
From billmitchell.org I read an interesting report in the last few days – The Economics of the Food System Transformation – published…
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What a fair deal for ex-steelworkers would look like as the industry decarbonises
From The Conversation Plans to cut almost 3,000 jobs at the UK’s largest steelworks, Tata Steel in Port Talbot, south…
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COP28: Trashing the UN is easy, but where is the alternative?
From Alan Thornett’s Ecosocialist Discussion blog Despite being held in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – the sixth…
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Five reasons why agriculture should be central to our ecosocialist vision
From Rupture magazine Jess Spear 1. Industrialised agriculture is undermining our life support systems. Wildlife populations are collapsing and many…
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COP 28- what is at stake?
Alan Thornett writes: COP28 (along with planet Earth) is faced with “an absolutely gobsmackingly bananas increase in the global temperature”…
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Could small farmers feed the world?
From Climate & Capitalism The claim that small farms produce 70% of all food is a myth … but in…