International Conservation & Development

Below in quotations are the allegations, taken in verbatim from the report, which can be accessed in full here.

"I've worked on contaminated sites for more than 20 years and I've never seen anything on the scale that I saw in Nigeria," said Donna Vorhees, an adjunct assistant professor of environmental health at BUSPH. "They're not just exposed – these people are actually living in petroleum." Read the full story

"There is regulation in market systems all over the place. There is no such thing as [a] free market in existence in the world because government is an actor in our markets. Its job is to regulate .... Markets can work in concert with public policy." - Daniel Morris, a fellow at Resources for the Future Watch the program

Speakers at a workshop said here on Friday that substantial and sustainable promotion of conservation agriculture is very vital for making the soil health fit for boosting crop production to ensure food security of the nation. Read the full story

2011 Switzer Fellow Kelsey Jacobsen's research focuses on Chile's Salmon Aquaculture Industry. Hear how she is working with local governments to ensure safe aquaculture practices for years to come.

In South Africa, land occupation is expanding as a strategy for achieving genuine agrarian reform, food sovereignty and climate justice. Since these are all critical issues for people living in cities, land occupations in both urban and rural areas are an important, and often unrecognized, part of global movements. Read the full article

Though the global economy has accelerated the process in recent decades by the sheer volume of ships, most from Asia, entering West Coast ports, the marine invasion has been in full swing since 1869, when the transcontinental railroad brought the first shipment of East Coast oysters packed in seaweed and mud to San Francisco, said Andrew Cohen, director of the Center for Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions in Richmond, Calif. For nearly a century before then, ships sailing up the coast carried barnacles and seaweeds. Read the full story

María Fernández-Giménez, a rangeland specialist and associate professor at Colorado State University who has been observing environmental trends in Bayankhongor since 1994, believes that if there is a demonstrated market for "sustainable cashmere,” herders might change their practices. She envisions herders breeding fewer, but higher-quality goats and participating in monitoring to certify their products as organic and fair-trade, which would fetch a higher price for the wool.