It’s amazing what people get away with observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The future of foreign aid is in the PRESENT. If we surrender today, tomorrow’s models won’t matter. Share the facts, hold the line. More here: open.substack.com/pub/niawag/p...

Great, travel friendly #boardgame for two players (with the option to expand to 4 in case you met people in the bar\ have mini adults ). Highly recommend #seasalt&paper

💵 Giving cash simply works: www.povertyactionlab.org/evidence-eff...

This reminds me of a quote by R.H.Tawney, the famous British economist. 'What thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people with equal justice call the problem of riches.' www.theguardian.com/environment/... *if you're reding this you're likely in the richest 10%

Earth Day is every day. 🌎

A study out yesterday finds that climate change will add a bunch of arsenic to more than half the world's staple food.

#Senegal: Fortification of wheat flour with iron, refined edible oil with #vitaminA & salt with #iodine is mandated to address #micronutrient deficiencies, but quality gaps remain & further action is needed to realize the potential of #fortification for public health: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd... #health

Loved @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social's book on the history of Big Ag. I wish I could have read it at the start of my career. Don't be put off by the cover there's loads about our contemporary food system too, and to quote Pearl S Buck 'If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday' 📚💙

On the plus side dollar weakness lowers the value of dollar-denominated debt, which would alleviate some fiscal constraints for highly indebted economies in Africa . (Would love an actual economist to confirm if that’s true )

🚨 Investment in agricultural R&D is declining, yet it will cost $1.3 trillion/year to help the world’s diet-poor afford healthy food. Join us at #N4GParis to find scalable solutions! 🔗 on.cgiar.org/4298Xx9

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

The US pulled out of a board overseeing the “loss & damage” fund for vulnerable countries hit by climate disasters; and the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) that'd help several large developing countries move away from fossil fuels, particularly coal. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Worth a listen for anyone in or adjacent to global development at this turbulent time. @odi.global odi.org/en/insights/...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QLcK... Every ! Second ! Of this is perfection #musicsky

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

The US Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) website is now offline. Since 1985, FEWS NET has provided assessments of the location and severity of food crises. These assessments are used by gov and non-government humanitarian organizations across the world to allocate aid. static.fews.net

Seems to be an exception on food assistance, Egypt and Israel . Everything else is a big (?) . US up to now largest dev donor , impacts could be huge .

100% this. "Journalist" need to stop reporting tweets as news, whoever the author.

Research suggests a massive expansion of mining & the processing of metal ores caused airborne lead pollution to soar during the peak of the Roman empire, leading to an estimated 2-3 point drop in IQ. 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

And here's the link to the blog post mentioned in the article above. "What wears the hardness of hate away? Breath, tears." www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/119-the...

Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

How Shell greenwashed gas with sham Chinese carbon credits www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...

I worked on our locust response in 2019-2021 when in East Africa .This tool could massively reduce cost and environmental impact of current control strategies and more importantly make new strategies viable. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

New article: "We estimate that less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects constitute real emission reductions... Carbon crediting mechanisms need to be reformed fundamentally to meaningfully contribute to climate change mitigation." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great paper on challenges and opportunities of climate change. Although I remain sceptical of our ability to breed 'under-utilized crops' with increased yield, without breeding out the traits which make them climate resilience (i.e small grains) #plantscience www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci... .

I'm working on a study to assess levels of heavy metals in the environment, near gold processing sites, and today found out people were growing tomatoes 10 metres from a site using mercury. This is the dark side to the current high price of gold. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Stolen from the ATNi (Access to Nutrition initiative), figure unsurprisingly shows LMIC's have the least healthy processed food. full report accesstonutrition.org/app/uploads/...

Lots of new people joining Bluesky, and lots of great starter packs floating around, so here’s another idea: if you work at the intersection of food/agriculture, nature, and climate, introduce yourself and what you do below so folks can keep connecting. Who’s here now?

Recommend reading for all those who want a clear eyed view of the global food system without the hype or alarmism. 💙📚 , 🔧🌏 '⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'

Presented without comment from COP29: Natural Gas for Sustainable Development

This is rough news for an insect farming pioneer, and I won’t say anything about the fact that its CEO ran a vertical farming pioneer that went bankrupt except…rough news. agfundernews.com/exclusive-as...