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Sep 7, 2020 • 9 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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NEW REPORT 📰 The Added Value(s) of #Agroecology: Unlocking the potential for transition in West Africa 🌱

🌍 West #Africa has all the ingredients to become a “global frontrunner in agroecology,” according to experts at IPES-Food. Discover why!

👉 ipes-food.org/pages/Agroecol… Image
Latest report by IPES-Food points to #WestAfrica’s “path to resilience and the #SDGs” through #agroecology. 🌿

➡️ ipes-food.org/pages/Agroecol…

@FAOSDGs @futureoffoodorg @oxfamwestafrica @FSCluster @FoodSystems @UNBiodiversity @AndreaLearned @CivilEats @UnescoChairFood Image
The report underlines the vast challenges facing West African @FoodSystems today: temperatures rising 1.5 times faster than global averages; 70-80% of the population living on less than $2 a day; & #COVID19 threatening to plunge millions more into poverty and #foodinsecurity.
The report shows that #agroecology provides a compelling response to these challenges 🌿🌽🌍

✅builds #climate #resilience in durable & affordable ways
✅reduces reliance on expensive chemical inputs
✅builds on #farmer-to-farmer exchange
✅generates #employment in rural areas
.@grazianodasilva: "This report brings to light the voices, visions & initiatives of West #Africa’s vibrant agroecological movement. And while obstacles remain, it shows that many more doors & windows in agricultural development are starting to open!"

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Papa Abdoulaye Seck: "Providing insights into how to better understand and address these challenges, IPES-Food’s latest report, “The added value(s) of #agroecology", will be a valuable resource, in many respects, to the government of #Senegal and to the #ECOWAS community." Image
For former @FAO DG @grazianodasilva, agroecology is now a "viable alternative pathway for agricultural
development".

But what are the obstacles still facing #agroecology in West #Africa?

Our new report explains 👉 ipes-food.org/pages/Agroecol… Image
🗞️ West #Africa’s path to resilience and #SDGs through #agroecology - by our colleagues @KBCChannel1 🇰🇪 | @ndidiNwuneli @ntvkenya @ntvuganda @mkulimayoung

kbc.co.ke/west-africas-p…
🌿“We need to demystify agroecology – agroecology needs to be put forward!” - Dr. Papa Seck, Permanent
Rep. of #Senegal @FAO.

🌍More than 130 people from across the world joined IPES-Food and multiple experts to launch 'The Added Value(s) of #Agroecology' 👏🏾 Thank you! Merci! 👏🏾 Image

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#COP27 ends, our quick take:
-Hopeful: agreement on loss & damage
-Bad: we’re on track to 2.7C
-Significant: 1st agreement to include action on agriculture & #foodsecurity
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Here's the story of our POLITICS OF PROTEIN report out today. A thread 🧵

For decades, governments & corporations expanded factory farming - claiming more protein was needed for #foodsecurity.

Now they're confronted with the consequences... /1
Devastating deforestation, immense land use, pollution, impacts on health, climate & animals from intensive factory farming are clear for all to see.

Thankfully momentum for change is growing. /2 ImageImage
But those same actors (and some new philanthropists & venture capital) are now pushing a number of techno-fix solutions. These are many of the same firms that already dominate sales of conventional (factory-farmed) products. /3 ImageImage
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💡 How the resetting of corporate control of food systems is already well under way 👇🏾

📰 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

🧵 A thread on #foodsystems & the #UNFSS /1
Few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, but this #UNFSS is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions of food #governance.

/2
Once Guterres appointed a Special Envoy and the structure of the Summit was announced, the drivers behind the Summit became clear.

🔎 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

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In the #LongFoodMovement report, we're reminded that the world’s 30 million artisanal #fishers and workers provide nearly half of the #fish we eat (@IPBES, 2019).

But with #climatechange & island/ocean grabbing, small-scale fishers & their communities are in peril.

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Island/#ocean grabbing is likely to intensify as countries seek to solidify their influence, their #food supply chains, & their global sourcing and distribution networks. For example, in the #RedSea region, conflicts over fish & other marine resources threaten rich #biodiversity.
Meanwhile, in the South China Sea, said to
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NEW 📰 IPES-Food & @ETC_Group launch the #LongFoodMovement report | What would 2045 look like if it's still "agribusiness-as-usual"? Or can civil society & social movements prevail for healthy, equitable & sustainable #foodsystems? 🌍

Discover more at bit.ly/longfood 🌱
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But civil society can fight back.

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🔎 Find out more bit.ly/longfood

#LongFoodMovement #biodiversity #OneHealth
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📚 This #InternationalWomensDay, a little reading on the West African context 👇🏾

Our partners spent 3 years preparing our report on the transition to #agroecology in West Africa. It was (and remains) abundantly clear how critical #women are to this transition 🌿

🧵Thread /1
"#Women produce between 40-80% of food in the region and playing a leading role in local #food distribution and street vending in West Africa." #IWD2021

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🔎 But data measuring the share of food produced, processed & sold by women remains inherently complex & varies across countries. In fact, “quantifying the share of food produced by women involves making many arbitrary assumptions about gender roles in the production process.” /3
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