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Image credit: communitiesforfuture.org La Via Campesina translates from Spanish as “the peasant way”. From their website, they define themselves as follows: “La Via Campesina, founded in 1993, is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, landless workers, indigenous people, pastoralists, fishers, migrant farmworkers, small and medium-size farmers, rural women, and peasant youth from around…
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Agus Kalalu lives off his land in Sorong District, West Papua. It is beautiful, wild forest land that is almost completely untainted by human civilisation, such is the respect that Agus and his community show for their most precious resource. Image credit: Maps of the World The first product Agus talks about in this short…
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Reports from the EAT-Lancet Commission and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have spotlighted the environmental consequences of our global food systems and how we might create more sustainable systems for the future. Continuing with the current scenario is not an option: the damage and loss of water resources and biodiversity are severe; we…
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Image credit: IMF Blog (https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2018/03/20/adapting-to-climate-change-three-success-stories) What is Climate Resilience? Climate resilience is not an easy term to define. The idea of stasis in resilience thinking is hard to justify, since this neglects the range of other dynamic factors that intersect with it, and the importance of power and agency. I personally like Béné et al.’s…
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The relationship between food systems and biodiversity is symbiotic. Land use and clearance for agriculture and food production is a key driver of biodiversity loss and climate change. This massively impacts on an ecosystems’ capacity function, threatening the provision of vital services – including the production of food. Image courtesy of Proveg International The UN…
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It is staggering to note that more than 50% of Indonesian and Malaysian oil palm plantations in 2005 were lush tropical forests in 1990. Demand for this versatile and cheap vegetable oil has exploded in recent decades and shows no signs of slowing down. Ending deforestation is a key part of achieving the Paris Agreement…
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After listening to a great interview between Dr Izabela Delabre and Callum Nolan, Oceans Researcher at the Environmental Justice Foundation, I’m trying to answer the following questions: What is blue carbon and why is it important? What are the main barriers and opportunities for conserving and enhancing blue carbon? Dr Nolan starts by describing the…
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Based on a 2016 article published by Vicky Lam, William Cheung, Gabriel Reygondeau & U. Rashid Sumaila titled “Projected change in global fisheries revenues under climate change”, this blog considers the winners and losers in fisheries from environmental change. Global marine fisheries catches are thought to be worth around US$100 billion annually. The industry is…
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(Image credit: https://www.conservation.org/about/center-for-oceans) Below are brief profiles of the work of the Marine Stewardship Council (MCS) and Conservation International, two organisations promoting sustainable fishing practices. Demand for seafood has surged 122% in the last three decades according to the United Nations with an estimated 77 billion kilograms of wildlife taken from the sea every year.…
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