Waste management workers stand outside a waste processing plant in Bengaluru, India. By formalizing the waste collection process, the ‘I Got Garbage’ digital platform transformed waste workers into micro-entrepreneurs.
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To focus on sustainable development goals, platforms need to change from being exclusively focused on profits and value appropriation to perceiving themselves as public goods.
Workers in one of the poly-tunnels of an urban farm in South Africa.
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Many developing nations have little cold storage and lose much of their perishable food before it gets to markets. Climate-friendly refrigeration can provide huge environmental and social benefits.
Post harvest losses are rampant in several parts of Africa.
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The EU have introduced a new regulation on the import of products linked to deforestation – but will this reduce deforestation globally?
Zawadi Msafiri is seen in a withered maize crop field in Kilifi County, Kenya. The drought situation started in 2021.
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Jarrod Kath, University of Southern Queensland and Scott Power, University of Southern Queensland
The livelihoods of millions of farmers depend on productive Arabica coffee. New research gives further impetus, if we needed any, to urgently cut emissions.
Wetlands like this one in California’s Morro Bay Estuary shelter fish, animals and plants and help control flooding.
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The Supreme Court opens its 2022-2023 session with a high-profile case that has major implications for both wildlife and landowners.
The Canadian government has proposed a plan to cut emissions from fertilizers by 30 per cent from 2020 levels by 2030.
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Labels that emphasise the social identities of the contending parties not only impede efforts to comprehend their causes but also obscure their vast dimensions.