Koen Dekeyser
@koen-dekeyser.bsky.social
Welcome! I get happy listening re food systems, climate and governance in Africa & the EU | @ecdpm | PhD political economy | ex-@foodsecurity_za.
Good results from the 2023 CAP reform in Flanders:
CAP reform strengthens young farmers and smaller farms
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CAP reform strengthens young farmers and smaller farms
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@viltnieuws.bsky.social
GLB-hervorming van 2023 versterkt jonge landbouwers en
De GLB-hervorming van 2023 heeft voor een opvallende herverdeling van steun gezorgd, met voordelen voor jonge landbouwers en kleinere bedrijven. Dat blijkt uit analyses v
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March 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Good results from the 2023 CAP reform in Flanders:
CAP reform strengthens young farmers and smaller farms
vilt.be/nl/nieuws/gl...
@viltnieuws.bsky.social
CAP reform strengthens young farmers and smaller farms
vilt.be/nl/nieuws/gl...
@viltnieuws.bsky.social
Waarom bio een verkeerde keuze is om de wereldbevolking duurzaam te voeden.
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Wannes Keulemans: 'Waarom bio een verkeerde keuze is om
Kan bio de wereld redden? Dat is de insteek van een spraakmakend rapport van Bioforum, voorgesteld in november 2024. De sectororganisatie maakt zich sterk dat het rapport
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March 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Waarom bio een verkeerde keuze is om de wereldbevolking duurzaam te voeden.
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This is basically the premise for SSP3 "Regional Rivalry – A Rocky Road"
March 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is basically the premise for SSP3 "Regional Rivalry – A Rocky Road"
More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050.
If anything a call to expand semaglutide.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If anything a call to expand semaglutide.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report
Analysis forecasts a third of young people will also be overweight or obese, in ‘unparalleled’ threat to health
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050.
If anything a call to expand semaglutide.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If anything a call to expand semaglutide.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.
Here is what it means:
Here is what it means:
March 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.
Here is what it means:
Here is what it means:
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More land animals than ever before are slaughtered for meat
February 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
More land animals than ever before are slaughtered for meat
Great - although ambitious: EU aims for curbing food waste by 30% by 2030.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
Council and Parliament agree to reduce food waste and set new rules on waste textile
The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the targeted revision of the waste framework directive.
www.consilium.europa.eu
February 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Great - although ambitious: EU aims for curbing food waste by 30% by 2030.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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First thoughts is that it’s like reading a knock-off Farm to Fork with less ambition
I don’t see anything truly innovative in there, besides some tougher language on trade and a few new strategies?
Curious to hear your thoughts
I don’t see anything truly innovative in there, besides some tougher language on trade and a few new strategies?
Curious to hear your thoughts
🚨 Got my hands on a leak of the Commission’s Vision on Agriculture & Food - want to know what’s on the menu?
Here I’ve laid it out for you on a plate, in my latest for @arc2020.bsky.social 👇
www.arc2020.eu/leak-a-sneak...
Here I’ve laid it out for you on a plate, in my latest for @arc2020.bsky.social 👇
www.arc2020.eu/leak-a-sneak...
LEAK: A sneak peek at the EU's new blueprint for agrifood policy
Tough on trade, but more lax on CAP – that’s a quick summary of the EU's new blueprint for agriculture and food, according to a leaked draft that ARC2020 got its hands on. So what’s on the menu for ag...
www.arc2020.eu
February 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
First thoughts is that it’s like reading a knock-off Farm to Fork with less ambition
I don’t see anything truly innovative in there, besides some tougher language on trade and a few new strategies?
Curious to hear your thoughts
I don’t see anything truly innovative in there, besides some tougher language on trade and a few new strategies?
Curious to hear your thoughts
We don't talk about ozempic et al. enough in the food systems debate.
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows
Scientists have several theories about how the drug might reduce alcohol cravings.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We don't talk about ozempic et al. enough in the food systems debate.
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...
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Worth bearing in mind that Polity follows a robust coding process and this conclusion will have been reached by multiple coders.
They're not characterising early Trump II as an executive coup on a whim but based on clear, empirically rooted and long-standing criteria.
They're not characterising early Trump II as an executive coup on a whim but based on clear, empirically rooted and long-standing criteria.
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Worth bearing in mind that Polity follows a robust coding process and this conclusion will have been reached by multiple coders.
They're not characterising early Trump II as an executive coup on a whim but based on clear, empirically rooted and long-standing criteria.
They're not characterising early Trump II as an executive coup on a whim but based on clear, empirically rooted and long-standing criteria.
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New paper says we're within 20yrs of breaching 1.5C...
TBH, while statistically this may be the case, it's worth noting that over the last 50 years the longest a record-hottest year has maintained that record is 6 years. Further, rate of warming is faster now than 50 years ago.
TBH, while statistically this may be the case, it's worth noting that over the last 50 years the longest a record-hottest year has maintained that record is 6 years. Further, rate of warming is faster now than 50 years ago.
February 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New paper says we're within 20yrs of breaching 1.5C...
TBH, while statistically this may be the case, it's worth noting that over the last 50 years the longest a record-hottest year has maintained that record is 6 years. Further, rate of warming is faster now than 50 years ago.
TBH, while statistically this may be the case, it's worth noting that over the last 50 years the longest a record-hottest year has maintained that record is 6 years. Further, rate of warming is faster now than 50 years ago.
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A sobering look at the impact of USAID's shutdown on food security globally.
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
Halt in U.S. aid cripples global efforts to relieve hunger
The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global system that aims to prevent and respond to famine.
www.reuters.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A sobering look at the impact of USAID's shutdown on food security globally.
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
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The USAID-led Famine Early Warning System (FEWSNet) is "currently unavailable." This is the preeminent global early warning tool for acute food insecurity and has traditionally had bipartisan support in Congress.
static.fews.net
static.fews.net
The FEWS NET Website, the FEWS NET Learning Platform, and the FEWS NET Data Warehouse and Data Explorer are currently unavailable.
static.fews.net
January 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The USAID-led Famine Early Warning System (FEWSNet) is "currently unavailable." This is the preeminent global early warning tool for acute food insecurity and has traditionally had bipartisan support in Congress.
static.fews.net
static.fews.net
Madness
FEWS NET, which detects famine outbreaks, has shut down per Trump’s freeze on all foreign aid.
February 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Madness
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📝 How can #Flanders develop sustainable and mutually beneficial #international relations with Africa?
Today we launched our study with HIVA-KU Leuven for the Flanders Chancellery and Foreign Office at an event with the Flemish minister-president!
Find the study here 👉 bit.ly/4jAkD2U
Today we launched our study with HIVA-KU Leuven for the Flanders Chancellery and Foreign Office at an event with the Flemish minister-president!
Find the study here 👉 bit.ly/4jAkD2U
January 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
📝 How can #Flanders develop sustainable and mutually beneficial #international relations with Africa?
Today we launched our study with HIVA-KU Leuven for the Flanders Chancellery and Foreign Office at an event with the Flemish minister-president!
Find the study here 👉 bit.ly/4jAkD2U
Today we launched our study with HIVA-KU Leuven for the Flanders Chancellery and Foreign Office at an event with the Flemish minister-president!
Find the study here 👉 bit.ly/4jAkD2U
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📸 ECDPM's Geert Laporte is moderating a panel on Strategic Policy Reflections for our Flanders-Africa report.
w/ Secretary General of DKBUZA, Director General at DG INTPA, CEO of Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Deputy Director of Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
w/ Secretary General of DKBUZA, Director General at DG INTPA, CEO of Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Deputy Director of Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
January 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
📸 ECDPM's Geert Laporte is moderating a panel on Strategic Policy Reflections for our Flanders-Africa report.
w/ Secretary General of DKBUZA, Director General at DG INTPA, CEO of Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Deputy Director of Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
w/ Secretary General of DKBUZA, Director General at DG INTPA, CEO of Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Deputy Director of Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
Risks and challenges in global agricultural markets by @worldbankgroup.bsky.social: Agricultural prices are levelling off.
Fertilisers are still at a high mark cf. 2019.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/developme...
Fertilisers are still at a high mark cf. 2019.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/developme...
Risks and challenges in global agricultural markets
The World Bank’s agricultural prices index rose in late 2024 due to beverage price hikes, despite falling food prices. Agricultural prices are expected to drop by 4% in 2025 and stabilize in 2026, but...
blogs.worldbank.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Risks and challenges in global agricultural markets by @worldbankgroup.bsky.social: Agricultural prices are levelling off.
Fertilisers are still at a high mark cf. 2019.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/developme...
Fertilisers are still at a high mark cf. 2019.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/developme...
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The thing I enjoy most about this whole thing is that Von der Leyen clearly has no concept of the agricultural calendar & has not learnt she should not make big farming announcements over the winter period unless she wants protests (inc the Vision scheduled for Feb) entrevue.fr/en/agriculte...
Angry farmers: Strasbourg at the heart of the battle against the Mercosur treaty - Interview
French farmers have no intention of giving up on the European Union, which they accuse of sacrificing their future in the name of free trade.
entrevue.fr
January 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The thing I enjoy most about this whole thing is that Von der Leyen clearly has no concept of the agricultural calendar & has not learnt she should not make big farming announcements over the winter period unless she wants protests (inc the Vision scheduled for Feb) entrevue.fr/en/agriculte...
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A troubling chart — poverty levels in Africa remain high.
We aren't seeing improvements as the rest of the world. 1/
We aren't seeing improvements as the rest of the world. 1/
January 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A troubling chart — poverty levels in Africa remain high.
We aren't seeing improvements as the rest of the world. 1/
We aren't seeing improvements as the rest of the world. 1/