As I and few others will be rolling out this year from the SCB Social Science Working Group board, here are some great candidates who are seeking election to be the latest members of the board. You can cast your votes in the link given 👇🏻.

Policy makers, practitioners, govt. representatives joining us from Kabul. Its imperative that global and international community engages with Afghan representatives on issues of climate and environment and delegates be invited to COP, CBD and other events.

3 day seminar on Climate Change in #Afghanistan coorganised with Afghanistankomiteen (NAC) and د چاپېریال ساتنې ملي اداره(NEPA), extremely important insights shared by afghan scientists as well as the de facto Afghan govt. Issues discussed include LULUC, DRR, agriculture and gender! CMI Bergen

📢 Fully-salaried #PhD vacancy between #anthropology and #politicalecology at SDC_WUR! Applicants can develop their own research project around 'contested landscapes'.

Esther Marijnen & Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis will be your (amazing!) supervisors.

Join us!

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Excited to hire a new PhD researcher together with my amazing colleague Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis. The candidate will work on the intersection of political ecology and anthropology - focusing on contested landscapes.

Please share widely!

SDC_WUR Wageningen U&R

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Bill Gates, please stay away from the ancient family of grains called millets

Join us in person or online as we discuss elections , Hindu nationalism, vikas, populism and more ! What Modi’s next term might look like?

🎉Exciting postdoc opportunity on rangeland governance, ecologies and 'nature-based solutions' in Southern Africa at Institute of Development Studies Closing date is 30th of April. jobs.ids.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… POLLEN STEPS Centre Read on below (1/6)

Abundance: Living with a Forest (2024)

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Really happy to see such a careful and nuanced review of #MisreadingTheBengalDelta University of Washington Press in Social Anthropology journal! I’ll admit that chapter 4 on rice and shakti is one of my favourite and experimental chapters shaping my newer research on toxicity and shipbreaking…

It’s quite distressing to see oranges from #Israel perhaps Golan heights still being sold by NorgesGruppen in supermarkets. Norway MFA and Landbruks- og matdepartementet can we please not have genocide fruits in our supermarkets? Since Norway supports the ppl of Gaza

There's little study about what *social* factors make ecological restoration successful, even though restoration is a profoundly human activity. We found strong local collective action & non forestry income support programs improved restoration outcomes. ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss1/art…

Pretty interesting article about the limits of academic research for policymaking, and I've seen some of these trends in the forest and restoration sectors. Its still shocking to me that scientists write papers about parts of the world that they don't seem to know very much about

In a nation where millions struggle for one balanced meal a day, here is a luxury “rescue” centre for elephants (no offence to elephant lives) but this logic to care for “wild” elephants to please lord Ganesh is insane at all levels!

Thanks @saqibkhan , this detailed story by NewsClick sums up all that is possibly problematic with the Ambani model of “caring” for and “service” to animals. This is akin t Hearst Castle type zoo mostly violating broader regulations around conservation

#AnantRadhikaPreWedding lot of decor was #biodiversity themed&touching story of 8 hour long stressful elephant labour that #AnantAmbani helped with. Yet the “rescue” &procurement status of these animals/elephants remain under inquiry m.nenow.in/article/assam-…?

Like anyone cares but I would really like to visit #Vantara in #Jamnagar and know in detail about this initiative linked to conservation planning, management and governance in the context of India and beyond. Anyone been there yet?

important to study #Vantara initiative of #AnantAmbani in some more detail. The vision is ambitious but what does being the largest rescue center to counter India’s loss of biodiversity loss entail? fascinated by this literal “marriage” of riches and animals

Nature commodification reaches new heights in India.finds approval in the likes of Rihanna, Mark &Gates through donning “biodiversity” themed clothing at #AmbaniPreWedding ! Attention to issues of conservation is welcome needed more information on #Vantara

Beyond Rihana&GAtes, #AmbaniPreWedding at #jamnagar has been about displaying the groom’s passion for #animals and soft launch of #vantara marketed as a “rescue” centre& India’s solution to loss of biodiversity. Alok Putul tell us one of many sourcing