#ECJ: Member States may, under certain conditions, prohibit the cultivation of #GMOs on their territory #agriculture 🇮🇹 👉 https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-02/cp260009en.pdf

Rice gaffe haunts ex-farm minister Eto on campaign trail https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/japan/politics/japan-lower-house-election-miyazaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #2026lowerhouseelection #miyazaki #takueto #agriculture #rice

#ECJ: Member States may, under certain conditions, prohibit the cultivation of #GMOs on their territory #agriculture 🇮🇹 👉 https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-02/cp260009en.pdf

New paper is out!

We identified the worst crop shock every country experienced since 1961: the global average was −29%, with Botswana even losing 80% in a single year. Climate—especially drought—was the leading cause, although conflict is also a major contributor to crop failures. We can also see that the frequency of climate-driven shocks has doubled since the 1960s.

You can find the whole paper here: https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/151/2026/esd-17-151-2026.html

In the map below you can see the global distribution of the most severe shocks.

#Agriculture #CropFailure #Famine #Climate #Drought #conflict

New paper is out!

We identified the worst crop shock every country experienced since 1961: the global average was −29%, with Botswana even losing 80% in a single year. Climate—especially drought—was the leading cause, although conflict is also a major contributor to crop failures. We can also see that the frequency of climate-driven shocks has doubled since the 1960s.

You can find the whole paper here: https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/151/2026/esd-17-151-2026.html

In the map below you can see the global distribution of the most severe shocks.

#Agriculture #CropFailure #Famine #Climate #Drought #conflict

Exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products and food totaled ¥1.7 trillion in 2025, up 12.8% from the preceding year and hitting a record high for the 13th straight year, the agriculture ministry has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/03/economy/agricultural-forestry-fishery-exports/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #agriculture #forests #fishing #us #tariffs #donaldtrump #maff #hongkong #taiwan #china

@FediFollows For #Africa I would like to recommend @pacific06 with the @econetwork - a #youth project in #Uganda for #permaculture and #environment, fighting #hunger and teaching sustainable #gardening and #agriculture techniques.

#followFriday #sustainability

As populations decline and residents age in rural communities across the Chugoku region, livelihoods and traditions, including rice production, are either changing or disappearing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/02/japan/japan-aging-rural-rice-farming/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #agriculture #aging #rurallife #hiroshima #shimane

#Listening to a podcast edition of the recent KEXP live-to-air by progressive metal band Agriculture;

https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/live-on-kexp/2026/1/21/agriculture/

This is not for the fainthearted, it can be as loud and intense as you might expect. But it is unusual, atmospheric music, riding the knife edge between raucous and ambient, between expansive space and overwhelming volume.

#podcasts #Kexp #KEXPLive #music #metal #progressive #Agriculture

People who like growing things tend to be the least "zero sum" people I've ever met. I meet activists who act like sharing their time will inevitably lead to their death, but gardeners are always sharing.

We give each other seed, baby plants, cuttings, vegetables, greens, eggs - sometimes even before we know each other. If I say to someone "I wish I could grow tomatoes better" they'll jump in and offer last generation's regionally adapted seed without hesitation.

Because perhaps there's something to the experience of planting a bean and watching it turn into hundreds of beans, all from one bean. Or a single squash seed and seeing it produce dozens of squash and thousands of seeds. Or watching an enormous tree grow from a tiny seed and then a little sprout, and bring owls back where there weren't any before. And realizing that sharing only spreads the abundance, and never takes it away. If my tomatoes grow better, and hers fail, she knows I'll probably offer her that even better performing seed right back, and some extra tomatoes.

One of our friends on the border said he realized capitalism is bullshit the first time he grew tepary beans and watched a single bean turn into pounds of food and plenty of seed to save for next time. Why would anyone control your access to food when it's just that simple?

And the homesteading folks seem to like to make it seem really difficult, but they'll plant 10 acres to grain instead of oak trees and lament having to rent a harvester combine instead of having food literally fall out of the trees (and have a forest of other food and habitat for game, to boot), which is a failure of planning rather than the reality of what growing food is actually like.

#Gardening #Food #Agriculture #Permaculture #FoodJustice #Community

People who like growing things tend to be the least "zero sum" people I've ever met. I meet activists who act like sharing their time will inevitably lead to their death, but gardeners are always sharing.

We give each other seed, baby plants, cuttings, vegetables, greens, eggs - sometimes even before we know each other. If I say to someone "I wish I could grow tomatoes better" they'll jump in and offer last generation's regionally adapted seed without hesitation.

Because perhaps there's something to the experience of planting a bean and watching it turn into hundreds of beans, all from one bean. Or a single squash seed and seeing it produce dozens of squash and thousands of seeds. Or watching an enormous tree grow from a tiny seed and then a little sprout, and bring owls back where there weren't any before. And realizing that sharing only spreads the abundance, and never takes it away. If my tomatoes grow better, and hers fail, she knows I'll probably offer her that even better performing seed right back, and some extra tomatoes.

One of our friends on the border said he realized capitalism is bullshit the first time he grew tepary beans and watched a single bean turn into pounds of food and plenty of seed to save for next time. Why would anyone control your access to food when it's just that simple?

And the homesteading folks seem to like to make it seem really difficult, but they'll plant 10 acres to grain instead of oak trees and lament having to rent a harvester combine instead of having food literally fall out of the trees (and have a forest of other food and habitat for game, to boot), which is a failure of planning rather than the reality of what growing food is actually like.

#Gardening #Food #Agriculture #Permaculture #FoodJustice #Community

La nomination de l’ancienne responsable ecolo Anne Le Strat à la tête de l’Office français à la biodiversité provoque la colère de la coordination rurale, le syndicat agricole proche de l’extrême-droite. Plus inquiétant, la ministre de l’écologie ne la défend pas et lance une enquête administrative sur sa nomination. Bref, comme disait Macron, « ce quinquennat sera écologique ou ne le sera pas »…

#Politique #Ecologie #OFB #Environnement #Gouvernemenr #Agriculture #ExtremeDroite

La nomination de l’ancienne responsable ecolo Anne Le Strat à la tête de l’Office français à la biodiversité provoque la colère de la coordination rurale, le syndicat agricole proche de l’extrême-droite. Plus inquiétant, la ministre de l’écologie ne la défend pas et lance une enquête administrative sur sa nomination. Bref, comme disait Macron, « ce quinquennat sera écologique ou ne le sera pas »…

#Politique #Ecologie #OFB #Environnement #Gouvernemenr #Agriculture #ExtremeDroite

The US wants to focus on strategic control of the Western Hemisphere and reduce its ties with Europe, the new defense strategy, launched Friday, says. That makes last week’s decision by the EU Parliament to send economic integration of Europe and South America to the courts instead of implementing it now and improving it later, even more hazardous. Trump is certainly happy about it. #giftarticle https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagons-new-defense-strategy-strikes-conciliatory-tone-on-china-03b0940f?st=THU4A6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #Trump #mercosur #greens #agriculture

Significant US Farm Losses Persist, Despite Federal Assistance

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance

#HackerNews #SignificantFarmLosses #FederalAssistance #Agriculture #NewsUS #FarmEconomy