Maria Gernert

@maria-ge.bsky.social

#TPOrganics Senior Officer: shaping #research & #innovation for sustainable #FoodSystems based on #organic & #agroecology 🌿🍽️🌍🍉✌🏽🌱💃🏽 ✊🏽Justice artivist & advocate for system change 🎓MSc Sustainability in food & service industries 📍💙 of Europe 💭Views=mine

BREAKING: @greenpeace.be climbers are on the roof of the European Parliament in Brussels, protesting the EU's dependence on dirty, expensive fossil fuels Burning gas ruins Europe – it fuels the climate crisis, and financially ruins households with sky-high energy bills

🔥HOT FROM THE PRESS: The Agribusiness Atlas 2026 is out!The world faces its 4th global food price crisis in 20 years, while a handful of corporations control what we grow and what we eat, squeezing farmers and destroying the planet along the way. A few examples from the Atlas:

And that, fundamentally, is the prospect that terrifies end times fascists more than anything else. What keeps these men up at night is … us. It’s the possibility that a popular and vigorous movement will rise up and defend this planet and the many life-forms who call it home.”

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First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

💡Resilience cannot be built only during crises - main conclusion of our event "Beyond crisis response". With the 🆕MFF (Horizon Europe, CAP & ECF) coming up, NOW is the time to focus on long-term strategies for competitiveness & resilience such as #organic. 🗞️https://tporganics.eu/event-review-beyond/

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⚠️ The closing of civic space isn’t accidental; it’s the result of political choices. Governments invoke security, competitiveness and crisis to justify restricting rights and silencing opposition. What was once an autocratic toolbox is now mainstream. It’s time to reverse this trend.

Shrinking Civic Space in the European Union - ENoP

This joint publication by ENoP and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, authored by journalist and analyst Francesca De Benedetti, explores the growing erosion of civic space within the European Union. Through a ...

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🌾Farmers have always innovated. But today “innovation” is increasingly shaped by Big Tech. What happens when farmer knowledge and collective learning are sidelined by algorithms? 📅 Weds 25 Feb 💻 Launch webinar #HeadInTheCloud. 🔗 ipes-food.org/launch-webin... #Agroecology #FoodSystems

WEBINAR | Head In The Cloud - register now

Register now for this webinar exposing Big Tech’s grip on farming - and spotlighting farmer-led, sustainable alternatives.

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6. Rising to the challenge of moral consistency does not mean supporting your man through thick and thin. It means standing with the victims, whoever they might be, against the oppressors, whoever they might be. And, if necessary, making yourself unpopular in doing so.

5. What this is about is the locus of solidarity. Either you express solidarity with the victims of genocide and the victims of sexual abuse. Or you express solidarity with someone you treat as a hero, who might be assisting the airbrushing of those crimes. There’s a choice to be made.

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

💥 World Food Day - UN rapporteur Michael Fakhri said in the European Parliament: 👉 "Hunger is always a political problem. We produce enough food to feed 1,5 times the current global population. Hunger is always a political and institutional failure." See: shorturl.at/vKsfY

Subcommittee on Human Rights Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre

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