tist.org have helped >70K Kenyan farmers plant trees, develop and share farming best practices and sell carbon credits. Mr Nyaga showed me huge benefits of conservation farming + planting steep slopes with trees to reduce soil erosion Global Systems Institute Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

Found distilled water in #Meru #Kenya - a chemist shop! Now, will #eDNA identify effects of #ConservationFarming on soil organisms? CF is boosting yields, #FoodSecurity and #resilience for v poor farmers, does biodiversity play a part? Global Systems Institute NatureMetrics @LandLivelihoods

Many connections between small farmers, forests, livelihoods and ecosystem services. These systems always look complex in diagrams, because things are fundamentally interconnected and have many interactions. But they're also deeply intuitive and just make sense Global Systems Institute

Excited to get out in the field and try out the protocol for extracting #eDNA from soil. Turns out the mixing stage is best shared, and even better as a dance off! Looking forward to the analysis with NatureMetrics, to examine impacts of #ConservationFarming Global Systems Institute #TIST

Booking open for The Sea Around Us outdoor reading groups (of 6) around the Exe estuary & online tinyurl.com/yyurfoxf. Wild East Devon Lympstone.org Global Systems Institute TurfLocksPub @CITiZAN1 Exeter City of Literature Love Topsham Arts and Culture University of Exeter

Rachel Carson, writer, activist, marine biologist, systems thinker - ahead of her times, book now to join online and live later this week to discuss her remarkable book #TheSeaAroundUs tinyurl.com/yyurfoxf

On #InternationalDayofForests, we remember the suffragettes who planted trees to honour their actions 100 years ago. As part of our #GreenFutures programme, #WalkingForest will run creative camps in Coventry to continue their legacy. Stay updated at buff.ly/2PgYzQX

Magical moments with our team at Telperion. Thanks to Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation for hosting us in this beautiful grassy ecosystem!

What a team 💪🏾🤩

Delighted to be here representing Global Systems Institute & ExeterGeography for this wonderful workshop hosted by Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation & Global Change Institute

Get yourself a girl who sprinkles Dandies on Shit Lawns 😂😂 #WildflowerHour #BanAstroturf

Funded Impact Studentship open for applications, using applied data science to support sustainable rangeland management with Conservation SA as part of the Oppenheimer Programme in African Landscape Systems (OPALS; opals-exeter.org) tinyurl.com/b2eb9rv5.

Today’s the day!! 34 days after setting off from #TowerBridge we arrive back at 3pm having circumnavigated Great Britain in this wonderful little boat collecting environmental data for University of Portsmouth NatureMetrics GBrow Challenge #oceanrowing #eDNA #microplastics #hydroacoustics

Extraordinary barnstorming speech by Ed Miliband on energy security and climate change, promising zero carbon energy by 2030. People in the hall, on their feet, applauding. "This is the undeniable truth of our age: It is cheaper to save the planet than to destroy it." ~AA

Another fully funded PhD Studentship is open for applications in the Oppenheimer Programme in African Landscape Systems (OPALS). Project: Managing Bush Encroachment on Holistically Managed Rangeland tinyurl.com/yh8pew92 with Andy Cunliffe, Ilya Maclean, Allan Sebata & Tom Powell