Gender-sensitive approaches to potato 🥔 cultivation can empower both women and men in highland communities of Peru. Learn more here… 👉🏽 bit.ly/PB-GenderRoles 🔸 MDPI 🔸 CGIAR GENDER

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is at its highest level in 15 years. We're in a #climateemergency, protecting vital forests is key to our survival. We must keep the Amazon standing. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #climate #nature #deforestation #GreenNewDeal

After several years of record-breaking #deforestation , we may finally get some #GoodNews from the Amazon #Rainforest. #IndigenousPeoples #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis

The world is now an average of 1.2 °C hotter than during the second half of the 19th century, and warming rapidly nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows theguardian.com/environment/20…

Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Genebanks in Latin America are adopting cryopreservation – preserving plant tissue at 196° below zero – to conserve #potato 🥔 and other crop #biodiversity for future generations. 👉🏽 bit.ly/ConserveAgrobi… 🔸 The Crop Trust 🔸 PotatoPro

A sad example of how difficult it can be to protect the Amazon #rainforest, or #biodiversity in general. nytimes.com/2023/01/14/cli…

New report: forests managed by Indigenous communities tend to be carbon sinks rather than carbon sources, while areas under different management are often less predictable. Max Radwin reports for Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2023/01/indige…

Smile, it’s Friday. theguardian.com/world/gallery/…

After decimating Indigenous groups in the Amazon and evading a $9.5 billion pollution judgement in Ecuador, Chevron is now reporting a $75 billion buyback of its own stock. How the rich get richer while the poor die. This company should lose its license to operate.

The past weeks the world has witnessed a humanitarian crisis within the Yanomami indigenous territory in Brazil, fuelled by illegal gold mining. Our solidarity is with the Yanomami Hutukara.org and the efforts of the Brazilian government @governodobrasil to address this emergency.

After the Bolsonaro administration let gold miners invade Yanomami #indigenous lands for 4 years, Brazilian agencies have finally begun evicting them. reuters.com/world/americas…

Aquatic genetic resources make vital contributions to global food security and provide important livelihood opportunities and income for many fishing and farming families and communities. Find out more➡️ bit.ly/3I0aryP Fisheries & Aquaculture

‘Extreme situation’: Antarctic sea ice hits record low theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…

Tragedy in the #rainforest. Ecuadorian #indigenous leader Eduardo Mendúa murdered as his community fights to keep an oil company from drilling in their area.

Seeds of #resilience! International Potato Center and partners across the globe 🌍 have bred and released highly productive, #climatesmart potato🥔 & sweetpotato 🍠 varieties for #foodsecurity, #nutrition & #NoPoverty. 👉🏽 bit.ly/B-ClimateSmart 🔸 FCDO Agriculture Research 🔸 CGIAR

Sonia Guajajara, Brazil’s first ever Minister of Indigenous Peoples 🇧🇷 Here she is in Glasgow at our Raising the Roof: Voices of the Amazon event, at the New York Times Climate Hub during #COP26 👇

The earth has lost 28 trillion tons of ice in just 23 years. We are in a #climatecrisis. There is no time to wait. Make 2023 the year we #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #ClimateEmergency #GreenNewDeal

Humans have wiped out almost 70% of animal populations in half a century: buff.ly/3PwKg61. Let's make this next year the year we protect people and the planet. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #biodiversity #nature #rewilding