Analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has estimated that the amount of wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape could drop by 4m tonnes this year, a reduction of 17.5% compared with 2023.

The warnings come as farmers have borne the brunt of the heavy rainfall and bad weather experienced over the winter, with the UK experiencing 11 named storms since September.

In England, there was 1,695.9mm of rainfall between October 2022 and March 2024, the wettest 18-month period since records began in 1836.

This has resulted in planted crops either being flooded or damaged by the wet weather, or farmers not being able to establish crops at all.

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He made a cardboard protest banner about the nightmare of French bureaucracy and went to cheer on a go-slow convoy of tractors warning that French farming and the rural way of life was facing collapse. Effigies of dead farmers dangled from nooses on tractor trailers as the convoy drove into the centre of the Brittany city of Rennes, beeping horns and waving banners. “Quality has a price,” read one.

“We’re fed up and exasperated,” says Bretagne, 38. “I love my job – I farm organically because it’s what I believe in and it’s the right thing ethically and in terms of health. In nine years of farming, I’ve never been on a protest; I’d rather be with my animals.

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La mirada previa del mundo científico-ambientalista explicaba por sí misma el significado que podía tener en los próximos cuatro años un triunfo opositor en esas elecciones.

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This HYBRID EVENT allows you to participate In person at Singapore or Virtually from your home or workplace.

This conference is centered around the theme “Addressing Escalated Climate Challenges Using Technology.”

GCWC 2024 is a reflection of its commitment to addressing the urgent global climate issues that encompass unprecedented shifts in weather patterns, looming threats to food security, and the escalating risk of rising sea levels. GCWC 2024 serves as a preeminent platform for delving into the latest advancements in climate change research and understanding the health-related ramifications of climate policies. The gathering facilitates meaningful networking opportunities, bringing together a diverse array of experts from fields such as research, science, environment, healthcare, and industry. Through collaborative efforts, participants aim to collectively confront the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change.

Mark your calendar for this impactful event, GCWC 2024 endeavours to convene a diverse spectrum of global research and case studies, facilitating networking and exchanges among leading experts. Researchers, scientists, environmentalists, healthcare professionals, industrialists, and related field professionals are encouraged to partake in this vital discourse.

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Este estudio, respaldado por la investigación aplicada de Microsoft y liderado por Longqi Yang, destaca que el cambio de un entorno laboral presencial a un esquema de trabajo completamente remoto podría resultar en una reducción de más del 50% en la huella de carbono individual. Además, sugiere que los modelos de trabajo híbridos, combinando días de oficina con jornadas remotas, podrían contribuir a una disminución sustancial de las emisiones, llegando a alcanzar entre un 11% y un 29%.

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Los gases fluorados se utilizan en una amplia gama de productos cotidianos, como frigoríficos, sistemas de aire acondicionado y medicamentos. También se utilizan en bombas de calor y dispositivos de conmutación en sistemas de energía eléctrica.

El acuerdo alcanzado entre el Consejo de la Unión Europea y el Eurocámara establece que los gases fluoarados se eliminarán completamente de aquí a 2050. Si bien la legislación vigente de la UE ya limita significativamente el uso de estos gases, las nuevas normas reducirían aún más sus emisiones a la atmósfera y contribuirían a limitar el aumento de la temperatura global, en consonancia con el Acuerdo de París.

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El encuentro tuvo como base dos premisas consensuadas, resumidas por la Ministra de Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático de Brasil, Marina Silva: la comprensión de que la Amazonia no puede alcanzar un punto de no retorno…

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There is an urgent need to give a platform to those communities for whom climate change is a lived and embodied experience.

In this webinar we hear from such communities in the Philippines, via MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag–unlad ng Agrikultura), a network of small-scale farmers, landless agricultural workers and Indigenous peoples, their peoples’ organisations, NGOs and scientists, with approximately 30,000 members.

Our webinar’s speakers will focus on key themes:

• Knowing climate: Their past and ongoing experiences in facing catastrophic climate change;
• Organising for change: The multi-pronged strategies they have developed and are using to address climate change. These include embracing agroecology and in particular focusing on the role of youth and women in developing sustainable and equitable agri-food practices
• Climate change justice: Their rich experiences in advocating for climate justice at community, regional, national and international levels.

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California has unilaterally decided to define Regenerative Agriculture. It is a subnational government with no formal role in the Regenerative Agriculture movement.

It has a state government with entrenched bureaucracies, such as The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), that regulate and condone some of the world’s worst excesses in industrial-scale Degenerative Agriculture on the planet.

California has the highest toxic pesticide use in the US, some of the worst excesses in industrial-scale monocultures such as the almond and other fruit and vegetable farms in the Central Valley that have destructively tilled bare soil, drenched with toxic herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and chemical fertilizers. It has large scale cruel, confined animal feeding operations. California has an unsustainable use of water. These farms are causing severe health damage to people and the environment.

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The CDFA is taking submissions from interest groups. This includes agribusiness poison cartels such as Bayer/Monsanto, Syngenta, and others trying to hijack and greenwash their degenerative systems as regenerative agriculture.

The CDFA has never been involved in the regenerative agriculture movement, and this move to make a Californian definition without consulting the major regenerative organizations and including non-regenerative groups, is hijacking. The last thing the world needs is a subnational government with such a terrible record in farming systems hijacking regenerative agriculture so it can greenwash its degenerative systems.

Regeneration International is the largest and most significant regenerative organization on the planet, with 500 partners in over 70 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australasia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe. We are the people who started the global regeneration movement.

Leaders of the organic, agroecology,  holistic management, environment, and natural health movements started Regeneration International as a genuinely inclusive and representative umbrella organization. We aimed to establish a global network of like-minded agricultural, environmental, health, and social organizations to regenerate agriculture, our health, environment, climate, and communities – which is what we have done. We continue to grow every week.

Due to the diversity of like-minded partners, regenerative agriculture is now being used as an umbrella term for the many farming systems that use techniques such as longer rotations, cover crops, green manures, legumes, compost, and organic fertilizers.  These include organic agriculture, agroforestry, agroecology, permaculture, holistic grazing, silvopasture, syntropic farming, and other agricultural systems that increase soil organic matter/carbon. Soil organic is an essential proxy for soil health – as soils with low levels are not healthy.

The regeneration movement is an innovative, dynamic space. Regeneration International has opposed simple definitions and attempts to make standards as these will inhibit this innovative movement.

Defining Regenerative Agriculture.

By definition: Regenerative systems improve the environment, soil, health, animal welfare, and communities.

The opposite of Regenerative is Degenerative

By definition: Agricultural systems that use Degenerative practices and inputs that damage the environment, soil, health, and communities and involve animal cruelty, such as synthetic toxic pesticides, synthetic water-soluble fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, confined animal feeding operations, and destructive tillage systems, are not Regenerative.

They must be called out as Degenerative Agriculture.

Regenerative and Organic based on Agroecology – the path forward.

RI’s perspective: All agricultural systems should be regenerative and organic using the science of agroecology.

Regeneration must be seen as a way to improve systems.  Practitioners must determine what practices are acceptable and what practices are degenerative and, therefore, unacceptable. The criteria to analyze this must be based on the Four Principles of Organic Agriculture. These principles are clear and effective ways to decide what practices are Regenerative and what are Degenerative.

Health

Organic agriculture should sustain and enhance the health of soil, plant, animal, human, and the planet as one and indivisible.

Ecology

Organic agriculture should be based on living ecological systems and cycles, work with them, emulate them and help sustain them.

Fairness

Organic agriculture should build on relationships that ensure fairness in the familiar environment and life opportunities.

Care

Organic agriculture should be managed in a precautionary and responsible manner to protect the health and well-being of current and future generations and the environment.

Ronnie Cummins, one of our founders, clearly stated: “Regenerative agriculture and animal husbandry is the next and higher stage of organic food and farming, not only free from toxic pesticides, GMOs, chemical fertilizers, and factory farm production, and therefore good for human health; but also regenerative in terms of the health of the soil.”

The last thing the Regenerative Agriculture movement needs is government interference by a committee of non-stakeholder bureaucrats making definitions. The French Government’s agroecology definition was a crude attempt to greenwash industrial agriculture and the use of synthetic toxic pesticides and fertilizers. It was done without input from the global agroecology movement and has weakened the integrity of agroecology.

Similarly, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization promotes a version of agroecology that allows synthetic toxic pesticides and fertilizers, which has divided the agroecology movement.

We have seen the same with the government regulation of certified organic agriculture favoring large-scale industrial organic systems over small-family farmers. The USDA regulations have been hijacked to allow hydroponics, industrial-scale cruel animal factories, synthetic feed supplements, cancer-causing nitrate preservatives, highly processed junk foods, and various derogations that have fractured the organic movement and consumers.

As the founders of the international regenerative agriculture movement, Regeneration International will continue to lead, and we will call out attempts to hijack and greenwash.

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Vale recordar aquí que el 60% de lo que los seres humanos comen procede de cuatro productos agrícolas: el arroz, la papa, el maíz y el trigo. Por eso los expertos insisten en la importancia de trabajar sobre este sistema para lograr un impacto positivo, porque una chacra es la unidad productiva que más beneficios provee al ecosistema en materia de servicios naturales.

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