Orsi Nyárai
@orsinyarai.bsky.social
Agriculture NbS & Policy Advocacy Officer at IUCN 🌍 | Passionate about the environment, soils, gardens, books, and finding solutions. 🦉
#Agriculture #FoodSystems #Soil #NbS #Policy
🇭🇺🇪🇺 living in 🇨🇭 | EMP B26, Lund University 🇸🇪
#Agriculture #FoodSystems #Soil #NbS #Policy
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Orsi Nyárai
@orsinyarai.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I've created this Starter Pack to help those with an interest in all things #soil find inspiring people, organisations, and platforms that regularly post content on #SoilScience, #SoilManagement, and #SoilGovernance. 🌱🧑🏻🌾🌾
Let me know if you wish to be added.
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Let me know if you wish to be added.
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"Iran’s greatest current existential crisis is what hydrologists are calling its rapidly approaching water bankruptcy." Great essay on Iran's existential water crisis & how restoration of ancient qanat water collection technologies could provide a sustainable solution. e360.yale.edu/features/ira...
After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpump...
e360.yale.edu
December 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"Iran’s greatest current existential crisis is what hydrologists are calling its rapidly approaching water bankruptcy." Great essay on Iran's existential water crisis & how restoration of ancient qanat water collection technologies could provide a sustainable solution. e360.yale.edu/features/ira...
"This judgment rightly recognises that #SeedSharing is not a crime, but a fundamental element of peasants’ identity, #resilience and contribution to national #FoodSystems."
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Kenya’s seed sharing ruling a milestone for peasants’ rights and food security: UN experts
GENEVA – UN experts* today welcomed a landmark ruling of the High Court of Kenya declaring unconstitutional provisions of the Seed and Plant Varieties Act that criminalised the saving, use, exchange a...
www.ohchr.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"This judgment rightly recognises that #SeedSharing is not a crime, but a fundamental element of peasants’ identity, #resilience and contribution to national #FoodSystems."
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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When it comes to equitably tackling the pollution, biodiversity, and climate crises, nature always brings more to the table!
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
December 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When it comes to equitably tackling the pollution, biodiversity, and climate crises, nature always brings more to the table!
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
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BLOG POST ⎮
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, agriculture is finally central to climate action. Farmers hold key solutions.The next decade must turn political commitments into real change on the ground. Read @sei.org 's Selorm Kugbega's reflection:
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, agriculture is finally central to climate action. Farmers hold key solutions.The next decade must turn political commitments into real change on the ground. Read @sei.org 's Selorm Kugbega's reflection:
Agriculture and the Paris agreement: Reflections on a decade of progress - SIANI
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, agriculture has finally begun to claim its place at the center of global climate action; yet progress remains uneven.
buff.ly
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
BLOG POST ⎮
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, agriculture is finally central to climate action. Farmers hold key solutions.The next decade must turn political commitments into real change on the ground. Read @sei.org 's Selorm Kugbega's reflection:
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, agriculture is finally central to climate action. Farmers hold key solutions.The next decade must turn political commitments into real change on the ground. Read @sei.org 's Selorm Kugbega's reflection:
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Adaptation starter pack go.bsky.app/3G5Eono
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Adaptation starter pack go.bsky.app/3G5Eono
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The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5bn of environmental damage PER HOUR - major UN report.
A global transformation of governance, economics and finance is required “before collapse becomes inevitable”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A global transformation of governance, economics and finance is required “before collapse becomes inevitable”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5bn of environmental damage PER HOUR - major UN report.
A global transformation of governance, economics and finance is required “before collapse becomes inevitable”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A global transformation of governance, economics and finance is required “before collapse becomes inevitable”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Promising new programme with fascinating plans to deploy #seismology to measure e.g. the volume of a peat bog, bulk density at a fine scale, connected porosity, soil texture, #SoilCarbon, and to track soil moisture..
#EarthRoverProgram
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#EarthRoverProgram
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Promising new programme with fascinating plans to deploy #seismology to measure e.g. the volume of a peat bog, bulk density at a fine scale, connected porosity, soil texture, #SoilCarbon, and to track soil moisture..
#EarthRoverProgram
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#EarthRoverProgram
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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After 2 years of war, 98% of tree cropland and 75% of greenhouses in Gaza have been destroyed. Remote sensing maps tracking the progression of damage can help identify the best ways to remediate the land and rebuild Gaza’s agricultural sector.
98% of Gaza’s Tree Cropland Destroyed by Israel - Eos
Maps based on remote sensing analysis could inform remediation efforts by identifying whether agricultural lands were damaged by bombs, debris, or forced displacement of its caretakers.
eos.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
After 2 years of war, 98% of tree cropland and 75% of greenhouses in Gaza have been destroyed. Remote sensing maps tracking the progression of damage can help identify the best ways to remediate the land and rebuild Gaza’s agricultural sector.
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Over 80% of the world’s food comes from family farmers who depend on #HealthySoils.
Soils in rural areas remain essential to feed urban populations, sustain farmers’ livelihoods and strengthen global food security.
#WorldSoilDay #GreenCities
Soils in rural areas remain essential to feed urban populations, sustain farmers’ livelihoods and strengthen global food security.
#WorldSoilDay #GreenCities
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Over 80% of the world’s food comes from family farmers who depend on #HealthySoils.
Soils in rural areas remain essential to feed urban populations, sustain farmers’ livelihoods and strengthen global food security.
#WorldSoilDay #GreenCities
Soils in rural areas remain essential to feed urban populations, sustain farmers’ livelihoods and strengthen global food security.
#WorldSoilDay #GreenCities
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#DidYouKnow?
Restoring soils 🌱 can have nexus-wide benefits:
🧪 Improve soil health
🥑 Enhance water regulation & food production
🌡️ Climate change mitigation via carbon storage
🏡 Adaptation benefits
On this #WorldSoilDay, let’s remember that soil health is planet health. 🌍
@fao.org
Restoring soils 🌱 can have nexus-wide benefits:
🧪 Improve soil health
🥑 Enhance water regulation & food production
🌡️ Climate change mitigation via carbon storage
🏡 Adaptation benefits
On this #WorldSoilDay, let’s remember that soil health is planet health. 🌍
@fao.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
#DidYouKnow?
Restoring soils 🌱 can have nexus-wide benefits:
🧪 Improve soil health
🥑 Enhance water regulation & food production
🌡️ Climate change mitigation via carbon storage
🏡 Adaptation benefits
On this #WorldSoilDay, let’s remember that soil health is planet health. 🌍
@fao.org
Restoring soils 🌱 can have nexus-wide benefits:
🧪 Improve soil health
🥑 Enhance water regulation & food production
🌡️ Climate change mitigation via carbon storage
🏡 Adaptation benefits
On this #WorldSoilDay, let’s remember that soil health is planet health. 🌍
@fao.org
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#Farming feeds us, but it also fuels emissions. To reach the EU's 2050 #ClimateNeutrality goal agriculture must transform 🐄
Read our latest report to find out how ⬇️
Read our latest report to find out how ⬇️
Residual emissions from agriculture: Analysis of emission reduction scenarios - IEEP AISBL
The report examines emission reductions in EU agriculture by reviewing a selection of modelling scenarios and assessing variations in residual emissions.
ieep.eu
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#Farming feeds us, but it also fuels emissions. To reach the EU's 2050 #ClimateNeutrality goal agriculture must transform 🐄
Read our latest report to find out how ⬇️
Read our latest report to find out how ⬇️
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On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
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"We did not see enough discussion about livestock or meat production in particular, or even diets in general. So I think this is a pretty big missed opportunity." Dan Jasper, Sr Policy Advisor
https://bit.ly/4afp4Oc
@sentientmedia.org
https://bit.ly/4afp4Oc
@sentientmedia.org
Another COP, Another Missed Opportunity to Tackle Emissions From Food
“I think it's been a pretty big disappointment.”
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We did not see enough discussion about livestock or meat production in particular, or even diets in general. So I think this is a pretty big missed opportunity." Dan Jasper, Sr Policy Advisor
https://bit.ly/4afp4Oc
@sentientmedia.org
https://bit.ly/4afp4Oc
@sentientmedia.org
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This Friday! Join experts for "Free Food for All? Rethinking Food as a Commons." How would treating food as a public good reshape sustainability & democracy?
🗓️ 28 Nov, 17:00 CET 📍 PBLabs, ETH Zürich / Livestream 🔗 Register: www.formape.com/f/jbciq
🗓️ 28 Nov, 17:00 CET 📍 PBLabs, ETH Zürich / Livestream 🔗 Register: www.formape.com/f/jbciq
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This Friday! Join experts for "Free Food for All? Rethinking Food as a Commons." How would treating food as a public good reshape sustainability & democracy?
🗓️ 28 Nov, 17:00 CET 📍 PBLabs, ETH Zürich / Livestream 🔗 Register: www.formape.com/f/jbciq
🗓️ 28 Nov, 17:00 CET 📍 PBLabs, ETH Zürich / Livestream 🔗 Register: www.formape.com/f/jbciq
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🚨The global rise of #UltraProcessedFoods isn’t accidental – it’s powered by a corporate playbook.
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨The global rise of #UltraProcessedFoods isn’t accidental – it’s powered by a corporate playbook.
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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🌍 Food systems drive the #climatecrisis – yet remain a blind spot in too many climate plans.
A new #COP30 assessment shows 93% of updated NDCs now mention food/agriculture. 📈 Progress? Yes.
But only 1 in 3 mention diets, #agroecology or food consumption. We need real transformation.
A new #COP30 assessment shows 93% of updated NDCs now mention food/agriculture. 📈 Progress? Yes.
But only 1 in 3 mention diets, #agroecology or food consumption. We need real transformation.
Food Forward NDCs: An assessment of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) 3.0 for agriculture and food systems transformation - Climate Focus
Accounting for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, food systems must be transformed to achieve the Paris Agreement goals. Governments must rapidly slash emissions from food systems and boost t...
climatefocus.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🌍 Food systems drive the #climatecrisis – yet remain a blind spot in too many climate plans.
A new #COP30 assessment shows 93% of updated NDCs now mention food/agriculture. 📈 Progress? Yes.
But only 1 in 3 mention diets, #agroecology or food consumption. We need real transformation.
A new #COP30 assessment shows 93% of updated NDCs now mention food/agriculture. 📈 Progress? Yes.
But only 1 in 3 mention diets, #agroecology or food consumption. We need real transformation.
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🌍 New #LandGap report at #COP30 is damning: Govts are banking on 1BN ha of land (the size of 🇦🇺) for carbon removals – instead of cutting emissions or protecting forests.
That land doesn’t exist without displacing Indigenous Peoples, small farmers & forests.
👉 landgap.org/2025/report
That land doesn’t exist without displacing Indigenous Peoples, small farmers & forests.
👉 landgap.org/2025/report
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🌍 New #LandGap report at #COP30 is damning: Govts are banking on 1BN ha of land (the size of 🇦🇺) for carbon removals – instead of cutting emissions or protecting forests.
That land doesn’t exist without displacing Indigenous Peoples, small farmers & forests.
👉 landgap.org/2025/report
That land doesn’t exist without displacing Indigenous Peoples, small farmers & forests.
👉 landgap.org/2025/report
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1/3 of greenhouse gases come from food. Yet climate solutions often ignore food policy. The new Food Systems NDC Scorecard evaluates how national climate plans incorporate food systems as a diagnostic tool & a roadmap for policy improvement. #COP30
earth.org/why-cop30s-s...
@earthorg.bsky.social
earth.org/why-cop30s-s...
@earthorg.bsky.social
Why COP30's Success Depends on Food System Action
With COP30 underway in Brazil, integrating food systems into countries’ climate plans represents a critical opportunity for raising ambition.
earth.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
1/3 of greenhouse gases come from food. Yet climate solutions often ignore food policy. The new Food Systems NDC Scorecard evaluates how national climate plans incorporate food systems as a diagnostic tool & a roadmap for policy improvement. #COP30
earth.org/why-cop30s-s...
@earthorg.bsky.social
earth.org/why-cop30s-s...
@earthorg.bsky.social
I've just come across this 2017 essay by Benjamin Kunkel in the London Review of Books and it blew my mind in many ways.. Highly recommend it.
#anthropocene #capitalocene #ecosocialism
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
@lrb.co.uk @kunktation.bsky.social
#anthropocene #capitalocene #ecosocialism
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
@lrb.co.uk @kunktation.bsky.social
Benjamin Kunkel · The Capitalocene: The Anthropocene
The terminological dispute – Anthropocene or Capitalocene? – may not be so important. What does matter is which...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I've just come across this 2017 essay by Benjamin Kunkel in the London Review of Books and it blew my mind in many ways.. Highly recommend it.
#anthropocene #capitalocene #ecosocialism
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
@lrb.co.uk @kunktation.bsky.social
#anthropocene #capitalocene #ecosocialism
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
@lrb.co.uk @kunktation.bsky.social
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Great article by @jonhenley.bsky.social and Alessandro Gandolfi. A clear look at how the Netherlands is not only defending against rising seas, but also learning to live with the water — from floating homes to adaptive design.
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Living with the water: the Netherlands’ floating futures – photo essay
Photographer Alessandro Gandolfi’s latest project looks at how sustainable floating neighbourhoods offer a way forward as the sea rises
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Great article by @jonhenley.bsky.social and Alessandro Gandolfi. A clear look at how the Netherlands is not only defending against rising seas, but also learning to live with the water — from floating homes to adaptive design.
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Across the world, cities are turning urban spaces into food gardens, teaching resilience & cutting food waste.
Explore how cities are building a sustainable future: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/cape-town-local-communities-are-advancing-urban-restoration
Explore how cities are building a sustainable future: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/cape-town-local-communities-are-advancing-urban-restoration
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Across the world, cities are turning urban spaces into food gardens, teaching resilience & cutting food waste.
Explore how cities are building a sustainable future: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/cape-town-local-communities-are-advancing-urban-restoration
Explore how cities are building a sustainable future: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/cape-town-local-communities-are-advancing-urban-restoration
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What are the best books on agrarianism, techno-scepticism, creation care, and rurality?
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
Books From My Shelves
A Curated Agrarian Reading List
overthefield.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
What are the best books on agrarianism, techno-scepticism, creation care, and rurality?
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
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Farmers play far more than just a food-producing role—they shape landscapes, cultures, and communities. A new study in 'Agriculture and Human Values' explores how farmers see their future roles in balancing social, economic, and environmental goals. bit.ly/47LQlpT @bartoszbartk.com #farmsky
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Farmers play far more than just a food-producing role—they shape landscapes, cultures, and communities. A new study in 'Agriculture and Human Values' explores how farmers see their future roles in balancing social, economic, and environmental goals. bit.ly/47LQlpT @bartoszbartk.com #farmsky
"The agrarian localist future, along with its attendant cultural habits and political and community structures, are systems we ought to be creating now—collapse or no collapse—simply because they are the most convivial and sustainable way of living on this earth and are the right things to do." 💚
Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social is 'a guidebook (or a guiding light) to navigate the “dark ages” ahead and to journey toward localist agrarian flourishing'
#BookSky
www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/11/buil...
#BookSky
www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/11/buil...
Building an Agrarian Localist Present: A Review of Finding Lights in a Dark Age - Front Porch Republic
A vision of the future.
www.frontporchrepublic.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"The agrarian localist future, along with its attendant cultural habits and political and community structures, are systems we ought to be creating now—collapse or no collapse—simply because they are the most convivial and sustainable way of living on this earth and are the right things to do." 💚
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European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...