Blueberry River First Nation Chief Judy Desjarlais (middle) called her nation’s agreement with the province a “historic moment.”
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New agreements in B.C. provide economic compensation for land restoration activities to several First Nations and limit new oil and gas development projects.
The trespassers take a break on Kinder Scout, April 24 1932.
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Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
Almost 30 per cent of Black households and 50 per cent of Indigenous households experience food insecurity.
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Our food systems are failing to feed all of us.
In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we pick apart what is broken and ways to fix it with two women who battle food injustice.
Community gardens can be an important source of food, but many were shut down during the pandemic.
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Africa’s urban challenges are increasingly well known and documented. But the amount of data produced on urban Africa still pales in comparison to other parts of the world.
Jan. 11 marks the birthday of conservationist Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), who called for thinking about land as a living community to protect, not a resource to exploit.
Native American protesters at the Black Hills, now the site of Mount Rushmore.
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Renaming a national holiday to celebrate Native culture is one thing, but many Indigenous peoples are looking for greater recognition of the land grab that deprived them of ancestral homes.
Land reform strategies portray the land as uniform, static and independent from its social-environmental context.
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South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
Former slaves harvesting for their own profit.
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Kabila Abass, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Kwadwo Afriyie, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
The Yorkshire Dales, England.
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Much of the UK’s farmland is unproductive. It could be put to better use storing carbon, offering recreation and providing wildlife habitat.
Indigenous activists have drawn attention to threatened waterways, neglected Residential School cemeteries and other social issues by walking across Land. Here a group of settlers on an Indigenous Land acknowledgment pilgrimage.
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University, religious and sports gatherings often begin with an Indigenous Land acknowledgement. But what do they mean? And how can settler groups begin to walk the talk?
Aerial view of a proposed Burial Belt.
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Affiliate Full Professor, University of Washington; Research Associate, African Climate and Development Initiative and FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town; CEO, Stable Planet Alliance, University of Washington