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Insert your values, pick up a future?

Thinking about the future is not only interesting, but also important. We think about the future not only to imagine and dream, but also to organize our thoughts and wishes, and to plan ahead for different possibilities and options. In our individual lives, we may not use a specific term for the stories we envision... Continue Reading →

Launching the Coop4Wellbeing project

How can international development cooperation projects be strengthened through research of social-ecological linkages? And where does participatory research stand in such a relation? These and many other questions will be addressed by the interdisciplinary research project Coop4Wellbeing, which is being carried out by the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe),... Continue Reading →

Spouลกtรญme projekt Coop4Wellbeing

Jak mลฏลพe vรฝzkum vazeb mezi pล™รญrodou a spoleฤnostรญ pล™ispฤ›t k posilovรกnรญ projektลฏ zahraniฤnรญ rozvojovรฉ spoluprรกce? A jakou roli v tomto propojenรญ hraje participativnรญ vรฝzkum? Odpovฤ›di na tyto (a dalลกรญ) otรกzky bude hledat interdisciplinรกrnรญ vรฝzkumnรฝ projekt podpoล™enรฝ Technologickou agenturou ฤŒR, na kterรฉm se podรญlรญ Oddฤ›lenรญ spoleฤenskรฉho rozmฤ›ru globรกlnรญ zmฤ›ny รšstavu vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤ›ny AV ฤŒR (CzechGlobe), Katedra rozvojovรฝch... Continue Reading →

Governance Challenges at the Interface of Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation

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Food security and biodiversity conservation are two key challenges for many countries around the world. The simultaneous provision of food security and biodiversity conservation requires a governance system that can address intra- and intersectoral complexity. However, the two sectors are often treated as separate goals. In their recent study, Jiren et al. (2021) explore challenges encountered by governance systems to deliver integrated biodiversity and food security governance. To this end, they identified food security and biodiversity governance challenges in a multi-level governance context in southwestern Ethiopia. Specifically, this study focused on identifying institutional interplay problems within and between the two sectors at different governance levels.

The study area in Jimma zone in southwestern Ethiopia is a biodiversity hotspot and the birthplace of coffee (Coffea arabica, see picture). Food insecurity and biodiversity loss are major problems in the area and are accelerated by population pressure, agricultural land expansion, and challenges relatedโ€ฆ

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Systems Change not Climate Changeโ€ฆ but how?

Last week I published an editorial, attached to a special issue in Sustainability Science on the topic of Leverage Points for sustainability transformations (available mainly as open access here). In it, we raise nine questions for working with leverage points and systems change. For those already engaged with systems thinking, and the topic of leverage... Continue Reading →

Launching the Just-Scapes project

How to make our response to climate change more just and sustainable? This central question will be addressed by a new project, Just-Scapes, which we contribute to in collaboration with University of East Anglia, Lille Catholic University, ESPOL โ€“ European School of Political and Social Sciences and INRAE โ€“ French National Research Institute for Agriculture,... Continue Reading →

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