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Maria Gernert

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#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

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gfgf-europe.bsky.social @gfgf-europe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔥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:
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
💡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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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 26/02/2026
The real #innovation story is not in the cloud. It’s in farmers’ fields. Farmers & communities are 🌾restoring soils 🌱breeding climate-adapted crops 🐞managing pests ecologically 🌍 building resilience. Stop sidelining them. 📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-... #HeadInTheCloud #agroecology
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Global Alliance for the Future of Food @futureoffood.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🌱 “Food is never just a meal. It is identity, memory, land, loss, resistance, and healing.” Eight #FoodJustice leaders—from #Palestine to #Peru, #Mexico to #Myanmar—share their powerful stories of resilience, culture, and #FoodSovereignty✨ Explore the gallery: bit.ly/rooted-in-ju... #FoodSystems
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Rooted in Justice: Global voices on food, power, and liberation
A global multimedia gallery featuring food justice leaders. Their stories of resistance and healing offer insights into the movement for food sovereignty and just food systems.
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🎉Today, we held a very successful #ScienceDay at #BIOFACH 2026! 🎉 The two EU research projects #OrganicClimateNET & #OrganicAdviceNetwork and lessons learnt were presented before the 45 participants lively discussed good knowledge exchange practices. 🗣️🌱🌍 @organicseurope.bsky.social
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 16/02/2026
⚠️ 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.
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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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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 16/02/2026
🌾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
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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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Extinction Rebellion Belgium @xrbelgium.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
✊ We are currently blocking CEFIC @cefic.bsky.social - the biggest chemical industry lobbying agency in the EU. Our brave rebels are saying NO to dirty corporate lobbying, poisoning our food and contaminating our water. #PeopleOverLobbies #extinctionrebellion
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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. 🧵
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 02/02/2026
1 Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...
Title slide for report with title saying ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ and a background depicting science work in a laboratory.
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Maria Gernert @maria-ge.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Fast fashion= #ecocide 👚👕👗🧥☠️💧🩸 🇪🇺Europe needs the french anti-fast-fashion law - let it pass‼️ EU choose your side! ⌛🌍🔥
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
At #BIOFACH 2026? Join #TPOrganics #ScienceDay on 12 February on “Good practices of knowledge exchange in organic“, including testimonies on cross–visits in #OrganicAdviceNetwork & on #organic climate farming. 🌱 ⏩ tporganics.eu/science-day-... @organicseurope.bsky.social
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gfgf-europe.bsky.social @gfgf-europe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Food is a human right but in the EU 1 person in 5 can't access adequate food! Today launches the #GoodFoodForAll campaign. 📝 Sign it now for: ✔️ Quality food for everyone ✔️ Decent incomes for farmers ✔️ The end of food speculation ✔️ Environmental & animal protection 👉 eci.ec.europa.eu/053/public
If you believe in the right to have quality food accessible to all: sign now and share out European Citizen's Initiative
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🌱#TPOrganics is attending the #SOILL-Startup final conference at the Committee of the Regions. The Horizon Europe #MissionSoil project supports both new and existing applicants, with 45 #SoilHealth living labs established. 🌾 @maria-ge.bsky.social @organicseurope.bsky.social
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 18/11/2025
More fox-guarding-henhouse climate news: > 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🌿Organic Innovation Days 2025: What a week in #Brussels! 🤩 On 3-5 November, nearly 200 participants from all #Europe gathered for the #OID2025, confirming that organic R&I are key drivers of sustainable transition of #EU food systems. Event review 👉 tporganics.eu/organic-inno...
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IFOAM Organics Europe @organicseurope.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
✨ #TPOrganics has just unveiled its new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)! This key document outlines the research and innovation priorities that will drive the future of organic and agroecology in Europe. 🌱 🔗 tporganics.eu/wp-content/u...
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IFOAM Organics Europe @organicseurope.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
⏳ Last day to register for the #OrganicInnovationDays 2025! Find out why you can’t miss this key event on organic research!🌱 📌 Registrations close tomorrow 17 October — secure your spot now! 👉https://lnkd.in/eWPqe7RE
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
📣 Registrations for the Organic Innovation Days close this Friday! Don't miss your chance to be part of the only EU event on organic and agroecological research and innovation. 🌱 👇 Check out the official agenda and secure your spot today! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 16/10/2025
Today is #WorldFoodDay ! It happens that EU bans toxic pesticides... but then still exports them to all corners of the world. And that is ⤴️ ever more: 120.000 tons in 2024, so we decided to send them back to the Commission. They have been waiting 5 years to act & stop this unethical double standard!
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 14/10/2025
💥 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
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Subcommittee on Human Rights Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre
The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 13/10/2025
🌱The good news? Solutions already exist. #Agroecology and community-based food systems restore soils, recycle fertility, protect health & ensure food access – without fueling the climate crisis. 📖 Read more: ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... #FossilFreeFood #GlobalFertilizerDay (3/3)
Agroecological practices that enhance soil fertility & eliminate the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🔴✊ +110,000 in Brussels drew the RED LINE for Gaza. A genocide is taking place in Gaza fuelled by EU and corporate complicity. No climate justice without Palestinian liberation. #RedLineForGaza #EndEUComplicity #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 08/09/2025
🇵🇸Yesterday, we were tens of thousands drawing a red line for Gaza. To all politicians: do everything in your power to stop the genocide. #FreePalestine 🍉
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IFOAM Organics Europe @organicseurope.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
How do #biodistricts support small-scale farmers around the world & help develop sustainable food systems? Find out in our carousel 👇 & stay tuned for updates as next week we'll launch the 2nd video from our #OrganicDelivers campaign, focusing exactly on this topic! #EUorganic
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 08/09/2025
There's a serious risk that the EU's forthcoming #28thRegime will result in a downwards spiral in workers’ rights and corporate tax payments It's high time for public debate and political pressure on EU decision-makers! 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s... #deregulation #RulesToProtect
A call to action by Corporate Europe Observatory, encouraging individuals to raise awareness about the potential threats of the "28th Regime." It suggests contacting MEPs (Members of European Parliament) to ask about their efforts to prevent the regime from undermining social standards and sending responses to the Commission's online consultation on the 28th regimeWorkers in blue uniforms sit at sewing stations in a factory. Text overlay discusses concerns about the EU's '28th Regime' and potential social dumping effects.
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Global Alliance for the Future of Food @futureoffood.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🧵What does #FoodJustice look like—from #Palestine to #Peru, #Ghana to #Myanmar? Not from reports. From the people living it. These eight leaders came together to share stories of land, memory, resistance, and renewal. Here’s what they want you to know 👇 🔗 bit.ly/rooted-in-ju... #FoodSovereignty
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Extinction Rebellion Belgium @xrbelgium.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Extinction Rebellion Belgium denounces the continued presence and influence of #lobbyists from the #fossilfuel sector, the arms industry, and their financial backers within the heart of #European institutions 🇪🇺 💰 Stay tuned for the suite of PEOPLE OVER LOBBIES campaign. ✊✊✊ #peopleovelobbies
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
📅 On 4 September, join a broad, united citizens' mobilisation in Brussels' EU quarter to say loud and clear: NO to the EU-Mercosur deal. 🌱 For peasant agriculture 🔥 For climate ✊ For people's rights For more info on how your organisation can support the action, contact @cncd.be
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🌿 More comprehensive vision on R&I needed for competitive, sustainable and resilient EU food systems 🌿 Read TP Organics press release on the proposed future EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme (#FP10) 👉 tporganics.eu/press-releas... #EUpolicy #HorizonEU #organic
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 18/07/2025
The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture? That environmental destruction is actually conservation. This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'. 📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
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The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.
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IFOAM Organics Europe @organicseurope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The @ec.europa.eu's #CAP proposal weakens sustainability, leaving up to MS how to finance agri-environmental measures.🌿At least one third of the CAP budget should be ringfenced for the protection of ecosystems services including #OrganicFarming. Our PR 👉 www.organicseurope.bio/news/cap-pro...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 10/07/2025
🚨Who holds the power in our #foodsystems? A handful of corporations control seeds, supermarkets, farm equipment, soft drinks, & ultimately what ends up on our plates. It's bad for prices, choice, livelihoods, & democracy—write @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 10/07/2025
Solidarity w Francesca Albanese who faces threats of US sanctions, right after the special rapporteur to the UN human rights council published a grim new report on companies profiting from genocide. Big Tech names like Palantir feature, along with ag & construction giants. #Gaza shorturl.at/MsIk7
report summary quote: "The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Drawing through Gramsci, Fanon, the mondine, & the Black Panthers to ask what counterhegemony looks like in crisis, Raj Patel's latest offers food as care, care as anti-fascism. Read it. Share it. Teach it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: how to eat and how to think
Using Gramscian and Fanonian theories, this paper examines counter-hegemony through two 20th-century movements: Italian mondine (rice weeders) and the Black Panther Party. These movements met crise...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 26/06/2025
Our new report reveals just how deeply fossil fuels are embedded in #FoodSystems. 🌟But there is good news - breaking the link between #food and #FossilFuels is already possible now. Let’s break it down⤵️ ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 24/06/2025
👀 WATCH THIS SPACE… Food systems are the #fossilfuel blind spot few are talking about. Until now. 🚨From fertilizers to plastics, ultra-processed foods to kitchens – the links to #BigOil run deep. 📢TOMORROW our new report exposes the ties – and how to break free. #FuelToFork #ClimateAction #COP30
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
European consumers & farmers are left behind while corporations profit from toxic trade. This morning we were outside the European Parliament to demand decision makers: ❌ To reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal ❌ To ban the export of pesticides banned in the EU #StopEUMercosur #EndToxicTrade
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It was a pleasure to take part in the #FOODPathS Festival as Advisory Board member! 🤩 Many related projects & initiatives like #FOOD2030 Networks were present, as were #organic actors like ICROFS & CIHEAM Bari that are also members of #TPOrganics & #FutureFoodS partners. @agencerecherche.bsky.social
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 04/04/2025
The EU is in the grip of a radical #deregulation frenzy - while the EU has seen deregulation waves before, it’s very different this time ⚠️ #Longread about the multi-dimensional deregulation attack, what's at stake, and how progressive movements can fight back transform-network.net/blog/working...
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Why Progressives Must Organise to Stop the EU’s Deregulation Wave
Under von der Leyen’s lead, the European Commission is driving a far-reaching deregulatory agenda, threatening social and environmental protections. Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory) rev...
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Extinction Rebellion Belgium @xrbelgium.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
☣️ Stop poisoning us @ec.europa.eu @croplifeeu.bsky.social Stop killing nature! Chemical industry lobbyists out of decision-makers offices! Design strong and protective pesticide guidelines! Ban toxic pesticides! Act for a pesticide-free Europe. No bugs means no food. We cannot eat #pesticides
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 26/03/2025
🐝Yesterday we went to CropLife Europe's offices to present them with the bill for poisoning our world. CropLife Europe are lobbyists for big polluters such as Bayer, BASF, Syngenta and Corteva We are public debt collectors and we say: pesticides kill, polluters pay the bill! #pesticideactionweek
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European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) @eccjorg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Commission claims #Omnibus is based on “reality checks”. But whose reality is being considered? We spoke w/Nick Omonuk, Ugandan climate justice activist who knows the cost of deregulation—& why the EU must uphold not dismantle, corporate accountability laws corporatejustice.org/news/intervi...
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Maria Gernert @maria-ge.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We just presented a bill of €23 billion to pesticide lobby group Croplife Europe for the harm to our health & nature over the last decade, only accounting for known costs and only for Europe. 🌿🐝💧👩🏾‍🌾☠️ @corporateeurope.bsky.social @xrbelgium.bsky.social @beelifeeu.bsky.social @organicseurope.bsky.social
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TP Organics @tporganics.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Organic provides a concrete example and underlines synergies with #agroecology and should be leveraged to educate and raise awareness. #TPOrganics is part of the @agroecology.bsky.social working group on research, innovation & education which contributes to the science-policy interface. 🔬📚
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Maria Gernert @maria-ge.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It was great to visit BIGH aquaponics farm in Brussels. Urban farming - from CSAs to community gardens - holds manifold opportunities for strengthening local communities, public health, circular (bio-)economies & #FoodSovereignty and should build on #organic and agroecological principles. 🏙️🌱🐠🥦🍠🍪🍻
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