Amy Gibbons (she/they)
@amyg97.bsky.social
University of Nottingham green criminology PhD student & part-time teacher. Environmental harms, procedural justice, agriculture & the transition plan. All views my own 🌱🪴🌾🇵🇸
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Family farmers say their way of life is an impossible dream when ‘the bread of life is worth less than rusty metal’
In the Fens of eastern England, small-scale farmers fear for their future amid ‘astronomical’ costs and flatlining income.
theconversation.com
My co-authored long read with Dan Taylor 🧑🌾 sharing reflections and worries for the future of farming from our interviewees in their own words
theconversation.com/family-farme...
theconversation.com/family-farme...
*cries in criminologist* where do you even start with this 😭💀 clearly investing plenty of money into propaganda… the local reform councillor was using gofundme to print his own typed up letters in comic sans to post during the election and bro still won 💀
September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
*cries in criminologist* where do you even start with this 😭💀 clearly investing plenty of money into propaganda… the local reform councillor was using gofundme to print his own typed up letters in comic sans to post during the election and bro still won 💀
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Collective action on climate is crucial. Scientists play an important role in driving change.
How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action
Collective action on climate is crucial. Scientists play an important role in driving change.
tcnv.link
August 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Collective action on climate is crucial. Scientists play an important role in driving change.
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Our latest blog @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social on the need for @DefraGovUK to urgently address the lack of support for ongoing nature friendly farming that means great actions by farmers are being lost or can't be maintained.
@NFFNUK.com
www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/barnaby...
@NFFNUK.com
www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/barnaby...
Defra promise reformed support for farmers will turbocharge nature’s recovery, but will it all come too late? | The Wildlife Trusts
As farmers across England who have been taking actions to restore nature for years face the prospect of funding drying up, our Senior Land Use Policy Manager, Barnaby Coupe looks at what the Governmen...
www.wildlifetrusts.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Our latest blog @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social on the need for @DefraGovUK to urgently address the lack of support for ongoing nature friendly farming that means great actions by farmers are being lost or can't be maintained.
@NFFNUK.com
www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/barnaby...
@NFFNUK.com
www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/barnaby...
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A good long read about the state of farming in the food system today. Very sad to hear Peter lundgren selling. He's been a great advocate for nature friendly farming for years.
@uk.theconversation.com
@uk.theconversation.com
In the Fens of eastern England, small-scale farmers fear for their future amid ‘astronomical’ costs and flatlining income.
Family farmers say their way of life is an impossible dream when ‘the bread of life is worth less than rusty metal’
In the Fens of eastern England, small-scale farmers fear for their future amid ‘astronomical’ costs and flatlining income.
tcnv.link
August 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A good long read about the state of farming in the food system today. Very sad to hear Peter lundgren selling. He's been a great advocate for nature friendly farming for years.
@uk.theconversation.com
@uk.theconversation.com
These stories amongst the rest of my interviewees for the PhD have been really difficult to listen to. The state of agri policy making everything even more uncertain
In the Fens of eastern England, small-scale farmers fear for their future amid ‘astronomical’ costs and flatlining income.
Family farmers say their way of life is an impossible dream when ‘the bread of life is worth less than rusty metal’
In the Fens of eastern England, small-scale farmers fear for their future amid ‘astronomical’ costs and flatlining income.
tcnv.link
August 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
These stories amongst the rest of my interviewees for the PhD have been really difficult to listen to. The state of agri policy making everything even more uncertain
My co-authored long read with Dan Taylor 🧑🌾 sharing reflections and worries for the future of farming from our interviewees in their own words
theconversation.com/family-farme...
theconversation.com/family-farme...
Family farmers say their way of life is an impossible dream when ‘the bread of life is worth less than rusty metal’
In the Fens of eastern England, small-scale farmers fear for their future amid ‘astronomical’ costs and flatlining income.
theconversation.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My co-authored long read with Dan Taylor 🧑🌾 sharing reflections and worries for the future of farming from our interviewees in their own words
theconversation.com/family-farme...
theconversation.com/family-farme...
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The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Environment Agency insider alleges ‘cover-up’ over sewage sludge on farmland
Regulator and government accused of colluding with water industry to dump potentially toxic waste without oversight
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness
Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review
Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness
Our home is all on its own but it’s surrounded by very dense and mature hedgerow and evergreen trees. These have all remained untouched for at least a century. With my Dad’s very intricate feeding stations as well, I’ve been recording the birds, finding new ones everyday 🫶🏻
May 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Our home is all on its own but it’s surrounded by very dense and mature hedgerow and evergreen trees. These have all remained untouched for at least a century. With my Dad’s very intricate feeding stations as well, I’ve been recording the birds, finding new ones everyday 🫶🏻
All I’m gonna say is it’s stressful being a lincs girlie right now 😅 also got locals jumping on the pro fracking bandwagon now but anti solar farms to protect our countryside?? Sheeple, plssss 🥲
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s green energy assault in Lincolnshire ‘puts 12,200 jobs at risk’
Party intends to block projects despite net zero industries contributing nearly £1bn to local economy, analysis shows
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
All I’m gonna say is it’s stressful being a lincs girlie right now 😅 also got locals jumping on the pro fracking bandwagon now but anti solar farms to protect our countryside?? Sheeple, plssss 🥲
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Day 17 post op and was finally able to join a short dog walk again as I haven’t been able to for months prior 🥹
It was a hell of a first 7 days, surgery was 6 hours and in ICU for 2 days, I’ve never experienced pain quite like it but finally released on the 5th day, each day gets better 💪🏻
It was a hell of a first 7 days, surgery was 6 hours and in ICU for 2 days, I’ve never experienced pain quite like it but finally released on the 5th day, each day gets better 💪🏻
January 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Day 17 post op and was finally able to join a short dog walk again as I haven’t been able to for months prior 🥹
It was a hell of a first 7 days, surgery was 6 hours and in ICU for 2 days, I’ve never experienced pain quite like it but finally released on the 5th day, each day gets better 💪🏻
It was a hell of a first 7 days, surgery was 6 hours and in ICU for 2 days, I’ve never experienced pain quite like it but finally released on the 5th day, each day gets better 💪🏻
Hoping this is my last hurdle during the PhD - spinal surgery! Had my final swim Saturday (or icy dip) and hoping this is my last day in a lot of pain. 3 (maybe 4) vertebrae to be fused, decompression & reconstruction. A Christmas Archie for good vibes all around ☺️
December 17, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Hoping this is my last hurdle during the PhD - spinal surgery! Had my final swim Saturday (or icy dip) and hoping this is my last day in a lot of pain. 3 (maybe 4) vertebrae to be fused, decompression & reconstruction. A Christmas Archie for good vibes all around ☺️
Current read, alongside a couple of Guy Shrubsole’s 🌱
November 18, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Current read, alongside a couple of Guy Shrubsole’s 🌱
Reintroducing myself! BA&MA in criminology at Lincoln, now doing my PhD at Nottingham. I’m analysing the Agricultural Transition Plan using an environmental procedural justice framework&whether it can achieve/work towards environmental justice but also what the experience has been for farmers…
November 17, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Reintroducing myself! BA&MA in criminology at Lincoln, now doing my PhD at Nottingham. I’m analysing the Agricultural Transition Plan using an environmental procedural justice framework&whether it can achieve/work towards environmental justice but also what the experience has been for farmers…