Where does your food come from? Scientist (@ELI_UCLouvain @TraseEarth) making the food system more sustainable and transparent. Cofundador: @dopastoaoprato.
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A handful of commodities (🐮🌴🍫☕️) cause a third of all #deforestation, harming millions of forest-dependent people, the climate & biodiversity
A few commodity traders (Cargill, Wilmar, Olam, etc) handle this trade
Here’s what you need to know about their sourcing practices 🧵
📣 Você é apaixonad@ por dados e sustentabilidade? Quer fazer a diferença na transparência do mercado de carne no Brasil? Venha trabalhar com a gente na iniciativa Do Pasto ao Prato!
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🖥 Papel: Cientisa de dados
🍫 Localização: UCLouvain, Bélgica. Acessível a Bruxelas e Louvain-la-Neuve.
💸 Salário e Benefícios: 50-70 mil EUR/ano, dependendo da experiência.
2️⃣ Duração: 2 anos
📅 Prazo: 5 de setembro de 2024.
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Anúncio no português aqui: lnkd.in/ettudRJM
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Erasmus zu Ermgassen retweeted
SUPER excited to announce the launch of the @NYUEnvrStudies PhD program! We are searching for a first cohort of *fully funded* students to start in Fall 2025 who will tackle pressing environmental problems using interdisciplinary approaches. Details here! as.nyu.edu/departments/envir…
Erasmus zu Ermgassen retweeted
Real banger of a new paper on global temp/gdp relationships by Adrian Bilal and Diego Kanzig. SCC of >$1000 under pretty conservative interpretation of their results! Link here: drive.google.com/file/d/1zyO…
In the fight against deforestation, everyone is talking about TRACEABILITY. In a new article in Conservation Letters, we warn traceability should not be seen as a silver bullet - outline what governments and companies need to do next.
news.mongabay.com/2024/04/tr…
Only by encouraging companies to measure success at multiple scales can initiatives for sustainable commodity sourcing create the right mix of incentives for addressing deforestation.
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Read the Mongabay blog for more details: news.mongabay.com/2024/04/tr…
And the original article for the full story: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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China just licensed beef imports from 24 new Brazilian slaughterhouses. In a recent @wef article we highlight the opportunities for sustainable trade that stem from growing Brazil-China trade links.
Article: weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/b…
New slaughterhouses: canalrural.com.br/pecuaria/b…
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Erasmus zu Ermgassen retweeted
Interested in corporate accountability? Apply for an internship and join our team! Deadline is 31 March
oecdwatch.org/oecd-watch-int…
China is a huge and growing market for Brazilian beef exports.
Here are four opportunities this brings for sustainable trade.
New article in @wef: weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/b…
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4. And there are lessons from Chinese companies’ experience with other sectors. The Chinese trader COFCO International has, for example, recently incorporated a deforestation- and conversion-free sourcing conditions for soy imports from Brazil.
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Read the full article here: weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/b…
Co-authored with Yuan Zhuang and Andre Vasconcelos 🙏
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