This is the first of a two-part series on climate-related disasters in western Uganda. Part Two will be published next week. KASESE, Uganda In March 2020, right as the rainclouds began to gather, Rehema Aryema Namale bought a house here in western Uganda. It cost her 50 million shillings, around $12,000, and her plan […]
This is the third story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: The Dutch, and European, green agenda crashes into the continent’s food systems. Read Part One and Part Two. LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands To a din of mooing and the occasional sound of urine hitting the floor, […]
This is the second story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: How EU conservation rules shook up Dutch politics. Read Part One here; Part Three will be published soon. LUNTEREN, Netherlands Jan Dirk’s dairy farm in Lunteren, about a 30-minute drive from De Hoge Veluwe […]
This is the first story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: How the Dutch food revolution became an ecological time bomb. Parts two and three will be published soon. On a bright afternoon in May, Annemieke Visser-Winterink trudged through the Dutch underbrush, dead leaves crackling under […]
In a small room at a safe house owned by a human rights group in rural Liberia, away from prying eyes and passing ears, Decontee explains why she quit her job on the Salala plantation. It was hard work, setting out at 5:30 in the morning every day to trek through the rows of tall […]