An Alibi for Ecocide
Landscapes
An apparent "success story" of Amazonian forest conservation motivates a 6-years investigation of the land sparing hypothesis. 's new book, Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World, reveals a tragic belief that agricultural intensification will solve our problems of enduring extraction of the world's biodiversity. Episode Links : Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics. Yale University Press Roser, Max. 2024. Our World in Data. Phalan BT. 2018 Sustainability. 10(6):1760. the apparent Brazilian halting of deforestation "one of the great conservation...
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Building new land relations from within the core - (Dido van Oosten)
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The Netherlands is a world leader in the industrial model of agriculture with speculation-driven land prices to match. Dido van Oosten of presents a strategy for unravelling entrenched land relations from within a place where property is sacred. Episode Links Nicholas Blomley: training program Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to or Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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The People's Land Policy - (Bonnie VandeSteeg)
Landscapes
Recognizing how systems of private property control new visions of land use is one thing. Working on a political process of land reform is another. Bonnie VandeSteeg of the discusses the recent program outlined in: Towards a Manifesto for Land Justice. Episode Links by Dr Bonnie VandeSteeg , 2019, UK Labour Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to or Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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Holistic grazing, holistic thinking - (Nikki Yoxall)
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A recent wave of sustainability claims confidently dictate how, for what, and where we ought to use land for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. , a self proclaimed regenerative landscape manager walks through her thinking on land use decision making and responds to these critiques. Episode Links Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to or Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)....
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The Visible Hand - Roz Corbett
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Normally, land owners get a powerful say in the direction of land use. But what if we could design policies such that public values of land use directed who gets to own the land? PhD student and farmer travels to France to find out. Episode Links ) Project Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode and extended shownotes can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to . This podcast was a team effort of Tanguy Martin from Terre de Liens, Amelia Veitch from the Laboratoire...
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The Where of Law - Nicholas Blomley
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Reforming property for sustainability requires both innovation in the law as well as in how we relate to land. Legal geography is a conceptual project that describes how law and space interact. Frankie McCarthy (lawyer) and Nicholas Blomley (geographer) discuss property through the legal geography lens. Episode Links s Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to . Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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Farm Subsidies and the Green Transition - Kai Heron
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Brexit produced a once a generation chance to create a wholesale reform of agricultural subsidies. Kai Heron works through what the England's new farm subsidy plan reveals about the politics of food system transformation. Episode Links . The New Statesman. By Kai Heron, Alex Heffron and Rob Booth . Spectre Journal. Kai Heron and Jodi Dean : Maria Mies, Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Claudia von Werlhof : Sam Moyo On carbon markets and their overhype: , Buller Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s...
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Nature's Vote
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Episode Description Rescinding the practice of human-exceptionalism may be required to treat animals and other non-human species with more grace. But it might also be required to re-orient how we understand how the non-human world operates and thus the decisions we make that may disrupt the order of the multi-species communities we are all part of. Dr. Emma Gardner proposes an "ecological permission structure", or a parallel planning process that takes into account the needs and desires of multi-species communities. Episode Notes Gardner, E., Sheppard, A., & Bullock,...
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Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)
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Interview Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)* *The transcript has been edited lightly for comprehension and read-ability INTRO [00:00:38] Adam Calo: In an earlier episode of the podcast, I talked with Dr. Janet Fisher, where we discussed the rise to dominance of the ecosystem services framework and its limitations for resolving problems in landscape decision-making. Around that same time, a group of researchers made up of ecosystem modelers artists, ecologists and social scientists were getting together to ask: If the ecosystem service concept has run...
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Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)
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A question of how to advance upon the ecosystem services concept leads to lessons learned about how to work collaboratively across disciplines. Episode Links (a blog by Beth Cole Music: Kilkerrin by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
info_outlineAn article in Scientific American bringing a science and technology studies lens to Genetically Modified Organisms, provoked louder than normal responses from the pro biotech crowd. What can we learn from the exchange? Dr Andrew Flachs, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University, studied the role of seeds on farmer livelihoods in rural India as part of his book, Cultivating Knowledge. We discuss the arguments of the article and its malcontents to try and reach a broader understanding of what this debate is really about.
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- Andrew Flachs personal website. On Twitter
- Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India, By Andrew Flachs.
- How Biotech Crops Can Crash and Still Never Fail, by Aniket Aga and Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Scientific American.
- Is Biotechnology Just New Colonialism? Talking Biotech Podcast, Dr. Kevin Folta.
- 'Woke' Scientific American Goes Anti-GMO, American Council on Science and Health, Cameron English.
- Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Sandra Harding.
- A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Jason Moore and Raj Patel.
- Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital, Jason Moore
- Works of Sidney Mintz.
- R. Vasavi’s work on the Green Revolution: Harbingers of Rain: Land and life in South Asia. Shadow Space: Suicides and the Predicament of Rural India.
- Paul Robbins’ contributions to the Intended Consequences
- Rock, J. (2019). “We are not starving:” challenging genetically modified seeds and development in Ghana. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 41(1), 15-23.
- Dowd-Uribe, B. (2014). Engineering yields and inequality? How institutions and agro-ecology shape Bt cotton outcomes in Burkina Faso. Geoforum, 53, 161-171.
- Andrew Flachs and Paul Richards on the role of performance on agricultural systems.
- Indian millet hunger reduction program.
- Learning to Love G.M.O.s, by Jennifer Kahn, The New York Times
- Montenegro de Wit, M., Kapuscinski, A. R., & Fitting, E. (2020). Democratizing CRISPR? Stories, practices, and politics of science and governance on the agricultural gene editing frontier. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8.
- Genetically Modified Democracy, by Aniket Aga.
- Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resilience and the Black Freedom Movement
- Researchers can restore the American chestnut through genetic engineering. But at what cost? The Counter
Landscapes is produced by Adam Calo. A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: Land Food Nexus. Send feedback or questions to [email protected]. Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).