"Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing."
#COP30 #agribusiness #greenwashing #Brazil
MST : Agribusiness gets its tu...
"Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing."
#COP30 #agribusiness #greenwashing #Brazil
MST : Agribusiness gets its tu...
"Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing."
#COP30 #agribusiness #greenwashing #Brazil
https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/11/mst-agribusiness-gets-its-turn-to-co-opt-the-climate-cop-in-brazil/
#UncontactedIndigenous peoples & efforts to protect them
From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by #roads, miners & drug traffickers—a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection.
#law #InternationalLaw #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/uncontacted-indigenous-amazon-mining-logging-5d8d90cf8e13f44a5202101fee62b583
#UncontactedIndigenous peoples & efforts to protect them
From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by #roads, miners & drug traffickers—a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection.
#law #InternationalLaw #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/uncontacted-indigenous-amazon-mining-logging-5d8d90cf8e13f44a5202101fee62b583
A new report by #SurvivalInternational, a London-based #IndigenousRights organization, attempts one of the broadest tallies yet, identifying at least 196 #UncontactedIndigenous groups in 10 countries, primarily in South American nations sharing the #AmazonRainforest. Released Sunday, the report estimates that nearly 65% face threats from #logging, ~40% from #mining & ~20% from #agribusiness.
#IndigenousPeoples #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #ClimateCrisis
https://uncontactedpeoples.org/
#UncontactedIndigenous peoples & efforts to protect them
From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by #roads, miners & drug traffickers—a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection.
#law #InternationalLaw #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/uncontacted-indigenous-amazon-mining-logging-5d8d90cf8e13f44a5202101fee62b583
Interesting thing of the day was getting some insight from the business owner of the farm I work at how the various bits of the business hang together - 2 dairies, calf breeding for beef, holstein, and wagyu, cropping, rotational grazing and crops chosen, how many calves per year, how long they spend on each property and what for, milk solids yield on a seasonal basis and quality thereof, pregnancy success from AI (the good kind, not the dumb computer kind) program, sale rates, semen and bloodline import sources, water rights and licenses and percentage usage of that water to ensure compliance, plus water and dairy solid waste reuse.
Thing I was most fascinated by was the aggregation and normalisation of data from two sources (dairy management software and breeding management software) and seeing deep data dance in PowerBI.
Don't anyone ever think that a successful agricultural business isn't complex and that farming is hicks chewing on a grass stalk.
I've made it clear (I hope) to the owner that I'd jump at the chance to spend a little time working in different parts of the business to get better insight into how everything moves.
Interesting thing of the day was getting some insight from the business owner of the farm I work at how the various bits of the business hang together - 2 dairies, calf breeding for beef, holstein, and wagyu, cropping, rotational grazing and crops chosen, how many calves per year, how long they spend on each property and what for, milk solids yield on a seasonal basis and quality thereof, pregnancy success from AI (the good kind, not the dumb computer kind) program, sale rates, semen and bloodline import sources, water rights and licenses and percentage usage of that water to ensure compliance, plus water and dairy solid waste reuse.
Thing I was most fascinated by was the aggregation and normalisation of data from two sources (dairy management software and breeding management software) and seeing deep data dance in PowerBI.
Don't anyone ever think that a successful agricultural business isn't complex and that farming is hicks chewing on a grass stalk.
I've made it clear (I hope) to the owner that I'd jump at the chance to spend a little time working in different parts of the business to get better insight into how everything moves.
"Farmers will come in the pub on a Friday night and say: ‘The public don’t care as long as it’s cheap.’ Which is absolute crap. And the public will say: ‘You never see a farmer on his bike – [instead] driving around in Range Rovers shouting “get off my land!"‘ Which is also crap"
A very good article on modern farming in the UK.
"Farmers will come in the pub on a Friday night and say: ‘The public don’t care as long as it’s cheap.’ Which is absolute crap. And the public will say: ‘You never see a farmer on his bike – [instead] driving around in Range Rovers shouting “get off my land!"‘ Which is also crap"
A very good article on modern farming in the UK.