Beth Cullen 🌱

How to devastate a mountain… surely enough has been taken from the Welsh Valleys? #stopquarryexpansion #savecraigyrhesg #rampantextraction #cheaplives #cheapnature @SeneddWales @GeorgeMonbiot @ExtinctionR

Stop the Hanson Quarry Expansion in my hometown of #Pontypridd! It’s destroying a mountainside home to a range of protected species and affecting people’s health and wellbeing in the process. Please sign! Every bit of opposition helps! #savecraigyrhesg change.org/p/petition-opp…?

SOS! Stop the Hanson quarry expansion! #rampantextraction #savecraigyrhesg #southwales #glyncoch @SeneddWales @foecymrucydd @ExtinctionR @GeorgeMonbiot instagram.com/reel/C4L4c_8i5…

📰 This article by @BeSeCullen in the latest issue of our #OpenAccess journal @SocialAnthropo1 explores volatility from the perspective of hilsa fish in the Bengal Delta. buff.ly/492YTqr

1. Struggling with identification of bees/pollinators and various other tricky insects groups? It has been my life's mission to make things easier, so check out this chain. Firstly, Steven Falk Flickr: @N07/collections/72157629222209764/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">flickr.com/photos/6307520…. It's a virtual museum and field adventure.

A new narrative for pastoralism and development policy means 'understanding pastoralism as a modern system embedded in social narratives and networks'. A recent @PASTRES_erc and @ILRI workshop examined development policy responsiveness to pastoralism : ilri.org/news/how-can-n…

📚 A book that describes the power relations of contemporary agroextractivism and analyzes the social processes of emancipatory agroecologies. Open acces: 👉buff.ly/2Onctwy @AgroecologyE @FundAgroecology @AgroecologyMap @GRAIN_org @friends_earth @focussouth @IPESfood

#ICYMI, @SeedSov's Seed Gathering programme is now live! Inc: 🗺️ Diaspora seeds 🌼 Queer botany 🌾 Landrace gardening 👩‍⚖️ GM & seed legislation There's still time to get tix & join us online across Sat 11th-Sun 12th Feb: seedsovereignty.info/events/seed-ga… Plus #SeedWeek kicks off on Mon!

Before you call this a "banger of a job". Consider that Insects are the bottom row of the house of cards that we call a food chain. They also pollinate our food crops. Wipe out insects with atrocities like this and the house of cards comes toppling down and with it our survival.

What do feminist and women’s rights organizations want from partnerships with INGOs? What does effective collaboration look like, and not look like? An important new report from global feminist organizations and WROs, in partnership with Oxfam and CARE. lnkd.in/eFH7wftw

New publication with a dream team of colleagues in which we ask: what lessons do the legacies of genetically modified crops in Africa offer in understanding future applications of genome editing? Available open access: doi.org/10.1111/dech.1…

So this anti-democratic, authoritarian government’s #AntiStrikeBill passes 2nd Reading in Commons 309 to 249 - & nurses, firefighters, teachers & other key workers will face sack for striking for fair pay. But we’ll keep fighting it every step of the way #RightToStrike @The_TUC

"The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards—publications, citations, funding—systematically obstructs women’s career advancement." hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

A fairer society •Abolish the monarchy •End the honours system •Get rid of the House of Lords •Votes for 16 year olds •Different voting system •Power to the regions & nations •Abolish private education •Nationalise essentials •Save the NHS •Tax wealth •£15phr min wage

Johnson is the third PM to fall in six years because there is no solution to the deep economic and environmental crisis we face that picks our pockets and steals our future. Real change isn't a new Tory PM but a new politics to redistribute wealth and power.

Powerful protocol - what types of protocols should we review in AgR4d in terms of how we gather, view knowledge and talk about local communities and farmers. Many myths persist- ‘lazy farmers, need new technologies’ @BirgitHabermann @BeSeCullen @SangoMahanty @Arwenincognito

From @Million_Belay @Afsafrica: "If we needed any more persuasion that food sovereignty is critical, then Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine should have done it." @SAFCEI #agroecology @GRAIN_org @IATP @victor_suarez @agcconnect @StacyMalkan @Habesh_ @NnimmoB nation.africa/kenya/business…