Niels Debonne


A blog about the food system and the climate crisis
  • Breaking fossil fertilizer dependence with organic agriculture

    We urgently need to get fossil fuels out of our food system. Our reliance on gas-derived synthetic fertilizers to grow food is not only incompatible with a safe climate, it also exposes us to dangerous volatility and jeopardizes food security. Speculative promises of future technofixes by the fertilizer industry fail... [Read More]
  • What the EAT-Lancet recommendations (do not) say about milk

    The Planetary Health Diet allows for large amounts of milk consumption, seemingly suggesting that milk is an integral part of a sustainable diet. This blogpost dives into what the Planetary Health Diet is, how it is commonly misunderstood, and how milk creates tensions between optimizing for health or for sustainability.... [Read More]