This post is part of my M.Sc. CCAFS thesis titled “Climate-Related Migration and the Climate-Migration Security Nexus in the Dry Corridor of Central America” in conjuncture with the CGIAR. In the face of climate change turning whole regions into uninhabitable wastelands and eroding livelihoods particularly in rural areas, migration has commonly been labelled as a ...
This post is part of my M.Sc. CCAFS thesis titled “Climate-Related Migration and the Climate-Migration Security Nexus in the Dry Corridor of Central America” in conjuncture with the CGIAR. Globally, climate change is setting new records for phenomena such as heatwaves, droughts, wild fires, and a increased frequency of natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, floods) year ...
To a significant degree, the environment as well as climate change is shaped by humankind’s relationships to animals. This includes livestock cultivation and related livestock feed production, which occupy a staggering 80% of the world’s agricultural land, an area larger than the continents of South and North America combined. Global livestock production contributes about 18% ...
If one thinks of ways of how to successfully implement climate change mitigation policies on a global level, it is not like fossil fuel companies are not part of the solution – albeit their involvement is only their complete dissolution in the (hopefully) not so distant future. Until we reach that point, however, it comes ...
The proverbial saying “You are what you eat” is probably among the ones where, whoever the addressee may be, eye-rolling will be a likely consequence. Generally, most people are not particularly fond of being judged on their eating habits and diets continue to be a realm of life where tradition, culture, and routine continue to ...
Coffee is the catalyst for an unimaginable number of people worldwide. Thomas Jefferson, as early as 1824, even declared it to be the “favourite drink of the civilised world”. Back then, neither climate change nor the disease profiting from it, now threatening coffee production, were a thing. Back then, notably, coffee was also not to ...
