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Food & Livelihoods

Food & Livelihoods

How does the language we use affect our treatment of the planet?

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The ACE stoves are designed to provide clean, smokeless energy for cooking in off-the-grid communities in Africa and Asia. Photo courtesy of African Clean Energy

How can clean stoves contribute to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Social enterprise African Clean Energy combines solar power with cooking devices to deliver clean energy to off-the-grid communities.

 
Lavender fields in France, one of the members states of the E.U., which collectively pledged to spend EUR 20 billion annually on biodiversity conservation. stezz, Flickr

Plant-based beer bottles, lifesaving llamas and billion$ for biodiversity

In this news roundup: global carbon emissions down 17%, virtual conferences go mainstream, and locusts wreak havoc in India

 
Raíces de los bosques de manglares a lo largo de la costa en el Parque Nacional de Bali Occidental en Indonesia. La nación archipiélago alberga casi un cuarto de todos los manglares del mundo. Aulia Erlangga, CIFOR

Mangrove forests: the muddy mazes that stash carbon and hide secrets

The benefits of mangrove forests are often overlooked, despite the fact that they're some of the most biodiverse and carbon-rich landscapes on Earth.

 
A woman cleans maize, a staple food crop in Ghana. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

Ways COVID-19 could lead to less hunger in Africa

New report looks at the pandemic’s effects on nutrition and hunger in Africa, and how lessons learned could lead to a better-fed future.

 
Kenya mountains

Kenya’s mountain treasures

A growing number of people are turning to Kirinyaga’s precolonial past to save the mountain’s vital forests from an uncertain future.

 

How is virtual reality a tool to tackle climate change?

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How is gaming teaching new audiences about the climate crisis?

GLF Live with Elizabeth Newbury and Alan Gershenfeld

 
A satellite image from the European Space Agency color-codes different vegetative areas, helping inform watering methods to protect agriculture from effects of climate change. European Space Agency, Flickr

Fact-checking Michael Moore, green stimulus and video calls with eels

In this news roundup: Norway divests from oil sands, Michael Moore documentary sparks controversy, and how solar and wind became cheaper than coal and gas.

 
A forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where management plans have grown to now cover 20 million hectares of forests, despite the increasingly rate of forest area loss in Africa. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

4.06 billion remaining hectares, and other new numbers on forests… But what do they mean?

Putting the U.N.'s new Global Forest Resources Asssessment 2020, which breaks down the latest data on forest area, into context.

 
The COVID-19 pandemic. Jernej Furman, Flickr

Negative oil prices, a Korean Green Deal, and face masks from ocean plastic

In this news roundup: Earth Day turns 50 online, nature takes over cities in lockdown, and why clean energy could be worth USD 100 trillion by 2050.

 
Yogurt is fermented by adding bacterial cultures to dairy or non-dairy milks. Nasir Khan, Flickr

What fermented foods can do for you

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Fermentation, a process of breaking down chemicals, has been used as a food preservation technique for centuries and is now attracting new enthusiasm from consumers across the globe. Jim Fischer, Flickr

How fermentation’s new heyday is benefitting human and planetary health

How a revival of ancient fermentation methods to preserve food is boosting immune systems, reducing food waste and capturing markets.

 
The uniquely cavernous and forested landscape of southern Java, Indonesia. Faizal Abdul Aziz, CIFOR

The future beyond COVID-19 requires rebuilding planetary health

The directors general of two of the world's leading forestry research organizations lay our 4 steps to a more resilient Earth and achieve planetary health.

 
Building fire proves an essential skill for purifying water, cooking food and communicating with others. 정훈 서, Flickr

How to survive the Anthropocene

Far from creature comforts, a bushcraft course proves a trial in re-learning how to live off the Earth and re-appreciate time in nature.

 

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