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Jamaican farmers’ groups meet to discuss new training opportunities

I am continuously amazed and grateful that small holder farmers continue to feed their families and community with their courage and love.

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I have to say, I worry for Jamaican farmers. At the same time, I admire them greatly for their tenacity and willingness to achieve results, no matter what. The former Agriculture Minister Floyd Green started an “Agriculture in Bloom”programme to give women farmers extra support. I am not sure whether it is still going, but I do feel that women already play a key role as small farmers (and I do not use “small” in a derogatory way!) Be that as it may, farmers face enormous challenges.

If it were only so simple (and if farmers had access to funds to do all of this…)

I get very distressed by television news reports of precious (valuable) goats that have disappeared overnight from farms, and crops that have been dug up just as they are ripening by thieves. The threats posed by climate change cannot be understated, either. Farmers have…

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Two Thought Thursday, La Casa de Papel (Money Heist): “E se io muoio da partigiano” -Really “The Resistance?”

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      1.)  Ok, so does marking a point or two against an abusive person, or system, really make you part of The Resistance?

      2.)  If your followers do not learn to follow your principles, are they really your students, after all?

        Finally:  Bella ciao, and Partisans:  The song came from Italy via the Labor Movement…

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Y, por fin, Berlin ya no està al mando!  Gracias, Tokyo!

Que valentia, Profe:  fingir un mal del estomago, quemar algo en vez de ‘irse al bano’ y entonces, provokar a un hombre armado mientras tus alumnos pelean entre si, amenazando al Berlin, quien no siente nada de todos modos, asi que no sirve intentar torturarlo para que cuente el plan Chernobyl!   Solo él es capaz de reir cuando juegan a la Ruleta Ruso.  Y el Profe ha estudiado muy bien su Aikido…

 

Pero si matan a Berlin, no…

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We Can Do Better Wednesdays, Walking The Extra Mile Prompt — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Here is another prompt from chapter 7 (which is now chapter 6…):  “I’d walk x miles for…” How many miles would you walk for something important, and what would that something be? ***************** Click here to read, if you like: B5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews, Holistic College […]

We Can Do Better Wednesdays, Walking The Extra Mile Prompt — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Toda esa selva tropical perdida, todo ese mercurio que se filtra en los sistemas de agua, envenenando a los pueblos indígenas y la vida silvestre. ¡Solo por un poco de oro! El precio de este oro es demasiado alto… ¡No podemos permitírnoslo!

Barbara Crane Navarro

Madre y bebé Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro

«¿No entiendes por qué queremos proteger nuestro bosque? ¡Pregúntame, te responderé! Nuestros antepasados fueron creados con él al principio de los tiempos. Desde entonces, nuestra gente se ha comido su caza y sus frutos. Queremos que nuestros hijos crezcan riendo aquí.

En el pasado, muchas de nuestras personas murieron como resultado de tus epidemias. ¡Hoy, me niego a dejar que nuestros hijos y nietos mueran por el humo dorado! ¡Caza a los mineros de oro de nuestra casa! Son seres nocivos cuyo pensamiento es oscuro. Son devoradores de metales cubiertos por el humo mortal de la epidemia de xawara. »

  • El portavoz y chamán YanomamiDavi Kopenawa
Una selva en territorio Indígena antes de la invasión de los mineros de oro

El 30% de lo que ahora se reconoce como tierra indígena ancestral corre el riesgo de ser abierto…

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Cadastro Ambiental Rural facilita grilagem de terras públicas na Amazônia! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Neil Palmer/CIAT O Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR), principal instrumento de regularização ambiental no Brasil, tem sido usado por grileiros para a reivindicação de terras públicas na Amazônia. Artigo publicado na revista “Land Use Policy” na segunda (2) mostra que 90,5% de área no sul do Amazonas registrada no CAR é considerada propriedade privada ilegal. Quase […] […]

Cadastro Ambiental Rural facilita grilagem de terras públicas na Amazônia! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Highway that will link Brazil to Peru threatens the most biodiverse area of ​​the Amazon – Eng / Port — Wirral In It Together — Barbara Crane Navarro

Sérgio Vale / Acre News Agency/ Marcos Pędłowski The project to build a highway in the Serra do Divisor National Park, in the Southwest of Acre, represents a threat to the biodiversity and quality of life of the indigenous population. This is what a study by researchers from the National Institute for Research in the […] […]

Highway that will link Brazil to Peru threatens the most biodiverse area of ​​the Amazon – Eng / Port — Wirral In It Together — Barbara Crane Navarro

एक कठिन कार्य / A Difficult Task

काश वह मेरी होती या मैं उसकाजब भी मैं उसे देखतायही खयाल आतापर कह नहीं पातादिल धड़कता था मासूमियत सेपर जाने उसके मन में क्या हैकुछ कहूं और वह ना कर …

एक कठिन कार्य / A Difficult Task

Record low wild salmon catch in Scotland alarms ecologists | Fish | The Guardian

Last year’s catch figures were affected by Covid lockdowns during spring 2021, but the data is consistent with recent trends. In 2018, the last full year before the pandemic, the wild salmon catch set the previous record low of just over 37,600. In 2010, anglers caught over 111,400 salmon.

The data has alarmed fisheries experts and ecologists. Wild salmon and trout are a keystone species for many mammals and birds, and a plunging fish population harms other creatures such as otter, osprey and mergansers, damaging the wider ecosystem.

Salmon are highly sensitive to water temperature and reduced water purity. Their decline is seen as unequivocal evidence that the climate crisis, pollution, fish farming and industrial activities are causing wider environmental harm.

 

Source: Record low wild salmon catch in Scotland alarms ecologists | Fish | The Guardian