Exciting opportunity! I’m thrilled to announce a call for proposals for the project: 'The Future of Food: Power and Biodiversity.' As the Program Chair of this initiative at The New Institute in Hamburg, I'm glad to invite senior experts to join us. thenew.institute/en/programs/th…

Yay! Thanks for posting. Just ordered mine!

Not my pic, but kudos to the author!

Ultra-processed foods raise harmful chemical levels in pregnant women news-medical.net/news/20240208/…

Climate change. Effects of deforestation on local rainfall patterns. El Niño.

It’s a bad year for the Amazon.

I'm a huge fan of urban/local/small ag, but it most often has a high carbon footprint, despite its other advantages.

This new study on urban ag shows 6x more C than conventional.

Exceptions: where conventional is high-C (air travel, greenhouses).

nature.com/articles/s4428…

That it can be made locally, on demand, is huge.

What are Nature-Based Solutions? Kelly Witkowski, Climate Lead of #IICA explains what they are - working in concert with natural processes, to #mitigate & #adapt to #climatechange #COP28 ⁦Inter-American Development Bank⁩ ⁦IICA⁩ ⁦IICA⁩ ⁦Kelly Witkowski⁩

Latin America to play an essential role in the global transition to a more secure and sustainable energy system - News - IEA iea.org/news/latin-ame…

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Why some people don’t feel the buzz of caffeine - The Washington Post apple.news/Ad-RWnX7iQ6mIN…

Hurricane Ian stirred up flesh-eating bacteria in Florida - Grist apple.news/AjuEBeYI6Rj6DA…

Adopted in 2022 during #COP15 , the Kunming-Montreal Global #Biodiversity Framework guides action to protect and conserve nature till 2030.

This week, experts, governments, and civil society are uniting to facilitate the implementation of the framework.

forestsnews.cifor.org/84512/biodiver…

The annual total factor productivity growth rate necessary to double AG productivity by 2050 has been revised upward to 1.93% Virginia Tech CALS Global In Zimbabwe need more land today to produce less than decades past. #GAPreport

📣 Inter-American Development Bank is the first MDB to offer a financial tool rewarding countries in LAC for achieving nature and climate goals. Meet IDB CLIMA, an innovative approach aligning financial incentives with sustainability, promoting a greener, more resilient future. bit.ly/3EWArtM

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Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…

Climate-linked ills threaten humanity - The Washington Post apple.news/AVK5ewPr5SwaPn…