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FOREIGN POLICY: If a Tree Falls…
… in a national park? Activists, journalists, and even Michael Bloomberg have been agitating for Peru to finally make Sierra […]
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Category: SRI FELLOWS
TAKE PART: Africa’s Silent Scourge Is Wiping Out Crops
Farmers are going hungry because they lack ways of keeping food from rotting or being destroyed by pests after harvest. […]
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Into the great unknown: The ability of global forests to store carbon is at risk
Julian Smith, Special Reporting Initiatives Fellow reports for Mongabay on importance of carbon storage in global forests. Read the full […]
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Four Amazon nations, four approaches to reducing deforestation
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Julian Smith reports on deforestation in the Amazon. Below is a summary of the piece that […]
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Corporations rush to make zero-deforestation commitments, but is it working?
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Julian Smith reports on deforestation commitments from global corporations and their effectiveness. Read the full story […]
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SLATE – Bananal Islands: A conflict between the government and indigenous people threatens one of Brazil’s most unique national parks
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports one of Brazil’s most unique national parks and the debate between government and […]
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ROADS & KINGDOMS – Island in a Storm
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports on the conflict between the government and indigenous people threatening one of Brazil’s […]
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THE GUARDIAN – Peru planning to dam Amazon’s main source and displace 1000s
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow David Hill reports on Peru’s dam plans for The Guardian. Read the full piece here.
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Cutting food waste in Africa would drive greater prosperity
In a piece for The New York Times, Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky explores how food waste undermines African […]
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TAKEPART – How a Cow can Help the Climate
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports for TakePart on how an agricultural method imported from New Zealand could be […]
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THE LAST WORD ON NOTHING: The Amazing Lives of Fan Li and Xi Shi
Special Reporting Initiative Fellows Erik Vance and Dominic Bracco II submit an interesting piece on the world’s first aquaculture textbook […]
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A Sticky Savior? Gum Arabic May Change How We Store Food Forever
Chances are, even if you’ve never heard of it, you use gum arabic every day. The dried tree sap is […]
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Curing the Crisis: Food Scarcity for Ebola Survivors
Although there haven’t been new Ebola patients in Liberia since March 25th, that doesn’t mean the troubles for West Africans […]
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Biotechnology’s Role in Reducing Food Waste
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Margaret Egbula will explore the role of biotechnology in reducing food waste by developing crop varieties […]
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Photo Essay: Geopolitical pawns, the fishermen of Lý Sơn, Vietnam
The island of Lý Sơn sits a few miles off shore of the city of Da Nang and halfway down […]
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Storage Solutions: Partnerships in West Africa to Help Stem Harvest Loss
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Margaret Egbula will report on storage solutions in West Africa in May of 2015. Solutions to […]
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Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change
Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to […]
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Empowering women in order to save the harvest
On a hot weekend in February, Shamim Daudi sits down with farmer after farmer near Babati, Tanzania, to talk with […]
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ENSIA – Researchers build on age-old practices to reduce food loss in Africa
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky has published her article: Could traditional plants hold the secret to saving crops […]
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The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa
In the late 1980s, Bertha Mjawa remembers seeing endless quantities of fruits and vegetables getting thrown out across Tanzania because […]
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