🧵1/7 - THE UTTER MADNESS OF THIS
After 50yrs of 'area-based payments' under EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), there are some concerns about #FoodSecurity
The Liz Truss govt seems to be saying that the answer is to carry on with area-based payments?!
theguardian.com/environment/20…
After 50yrs of 'area-based payments' under EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), there are some concerns about #FoodSecurity
The Liz Truss govt seems to be saying that the answer is to carry on with area-based payments?!
theguardian.com/environment/20…
🧵2/7
Their argument is to 'concentrate' on food production, rather than sustainability (exactly what EU CAP did)
And yet, a 2021 @DefraGovUK report concluded that biggest threats to our #FoodSecurity come from the #climate and #nature crisis
Go figure
gov.uk/government/col…
Their argument is to 'concentrate' on food production, rather than sustainability (exactly what EU CAP did)
And yet, a 2021 @DefraGovUK report concluded that biggest threats to our #FoodSecurity come from the #climate and #nature crisis
Go figure
gov.uk/government/col…
🧵3/7
There is no such thing as #FoodSecurity if our soils are knackered and being washed away, our pollinators are in decline, and our crops facing heat & water stress
We @WildlifeTrusts run 26 working farms, so we do know a thing or two about this..
wildlifetrusts.org/farming
There is no such thing as #FoodSecurity if our soils are knackered and being washed away, our pollinators are in decline, and our crops facing heat & water stress
We @WildlifeTrusts run 26 working farms, so we do know a thing or two about this..
wildlifetrusts.org/farming
4/7
Truth is, largest landowners have most to lose from removal of area-based payments (half the agric budget goes to biggest 10% of landowners)
Small farmers have most to gain from Environmental Land Management schemes
Farming lobby groups are dominated by large landowners
Truth is, largest landowners have most to lose from removal of area-based payments (half the agric budget goes to biggest 10% of landowners)
Small farmers have most to gain from Environmental Land Management schemes
Farming lobby groups are dominated by large landowners
🧵5/7
While there's been a lot of attention on poo in our rivers recently, and rightly so, the greatest source of #pollution in our rivers is agriculture
Paying taxpayers money to farmers without requiring environmental improvements will make this worse
theguardian.com/environment/20…
While there's been a lot of attention on poo in our rivers recently, and rightly so, the greatest source of #pollution in our rivers is agriculture
Paying taxpayers money to farmers without requiring environmental improvements will make this worse
theguardian.com/environment/20…
🧵6/7
The narrative about 'huge amounts of land' being handed over to nature is nonsense. If only, but it's a lie.
In contrast, the land used to grow biofuels for road transport in the UK could be used to grow crops that would feed 3.5 million people.
edie.net/green-alliance…
The narrative about 'huge amounts of land' being handed over to nature is nonsense. If only, but it's a lie.
In contrast, the land used to grow biofuels for road transport in the UK could be used to grow crops that would feed 3.5 million people.
edie.net/green-alliance…
🧵7/7
If we revert to an agric system where people get given taxpayer's money on basis of how much land they own, then one of the few potential environmental benefits of #Brexit will have been squandered
It will be unfair & unsustainable
We will be fighting this tooth & nail
If we revert to an agric system where people get given taxpayer's money on basis of how much land they own, then one of the few potential environmental benefits of #Brexit will have been squandered
It will be unfair & unsustainable
We will be fighting this tooth & nail
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