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Devon Sampson

@devonds

Writer, Agroecologist, Participatory Action Researcher

Can we just make “will you shut up, man?” the new Biden slogan?


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Team of @sesync supported scientists calls on @planttreaty to recognize, legitimize, and materially support not just agricultural biodiversity but the social, agricultural, and ecological processes that continually produce and renew diversity, long term. drive.google.com/open?id=1H1GBX…

MaywaMontenegro's tweet image. Team of @sesync supported scientists calls on @planttreaty to recognize, legitimize, and materially support not just agricultural biodiversity but the social, agricultural, and ecological processes that continually produce and renew diversity, long term. 

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At @IPESfood, @cadwego just used data from this pic to argue that conventional agriculture is vastly inefficient if you measure what humans eat rather than tons produced. Data via @enviroem @globalecoguy fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/files/201…

_RajPatel's tweet image. At @IPESfood, @cadwego just used data from this pic to argue that conventional agriculture is vastly inefficient if you measure what humans eat rather than tons produced. Data via  @enviroem @globalecoguy fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/files/201…

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“Monsanto’s secretive strategies have been laid bare for the world to see” In large part thanks to you, @careygillam! Thanks for your amazing work on this. What a victory! gu.com/p/9684k/stw


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Thanks, @EricLiptonNYT for continuing to cover what industrial agriculture likely wishes you wouldn't. "Court Orders E.P.A. to Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems" nyti.ms/2MkQV4W


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Excellent question!

Bloomberg on collapse of #GMO Bt cotton in #India bit.ly/2uGM8Rn Why do economists publish dozens of studies on initial yield increases and pesticide reductions but none when the seeds crash a few years later.



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“Ortega is winning the military battle, but has lost the war” - former Sandinista VP Sergio Ramirez - after 400 deaths in Nicaragua’s ongoing civic uprising (will the preexisting peasant movement against displacement converge w the student movement?) elpais.com/internacional/…


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Bring on the discussion on power! Yes, corporate power is a huge threat. But let's affirm that civil society, peasants, small farmers are not powerless. We have power -- in our diversity, knowledge, innovation. Everyday we're wielding that power and changing the food system.


A good question at the #agroecologysymposium: “what do you mean that we need to increase food production, while there is already enough food produced in the world today, and much of what is sold in the name of increasing production actually kills biodiversity and resilience?”


Dennis Garrity of @ICRAF at @UNFAO #agroecologysymposium: even though agriculture is central to climate change, biodiversity, and development, #agroecology is missing from conversations in the international treaties. Agroecology needs to make noise.


Clara Nicholls at @UNFAO #agroecology: farmers are using agrobiodiversity to design agroecosystems capable of ‘failing gracefully’, so that one one component fails, other components continue producing food and other services


A recurring theme in this @UNFAO conference room lined with portraits of council presidents, all of them men: grassroots movements are working on gender equality and recognize feminism at the heart of #agroecology. We academics, policy makers, funders must follow their lead.


The second #agroecology symposium at FAO begins with a packed room and talk of paradigm shift, transformative change, and a watershed moment.

devonds's tweet image. The second #agroecology symposium at FAO begins with a packed room and talk of paradigm shift, transformative change, and a watershed moment.

Monsanto was its own ghostwriter for some safety reviews bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW


For more on @maywamontenegro 's nuanced and insightful views on #GMOs, here's our in-depth interview with her soundcloud.com/delicious-revo…


#deliciousrevolution interviewed kitazawa_seed yesterday for an upcoming season on migrations.… instagram.com/p/BUA8H1Vgjgl/


A Korean mustard, gift from namu_farm, about to bloom in my garden. You can hear about Kristyn… instagram.com/p/BRw0wX8ApQF/


Studio assisting chelseadelicious @ 428collective instagram.com/p/BQOz0SnB8Gm/


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