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Orsi Nyárai

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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 🇸🇪

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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.

go.bsky.app/HADDT8P

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Orsi Nyárai @orsinyarai.bsky.social · 9h

Bom dia, Évora! 🇵🇹

Sunrise over the city of Évora in Portugal

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for reading recommendations this #BlackHistoryMonth?

Explore our list of 19 exceptional books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by the LSE community.

Nineteen must-read books for Black History Month - LSE Review of Books

For UK Black History Month, we've compiled a list of 19 books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by LSE staff.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 1d

#Soils teem with vital but underexplored #biodiversity that supports #foodsecurity and #ecosystemhealth 🌍

New Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory aims to monitor and protect worldwide. #SoilBiodiversity #SoilHealth #CBD #Ecosystems

Full paper: www.soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

International Biodiversity Consultants Ltd - New Research

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 7d

🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation.

Read more from @mongabay.com :

Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…

news.mongabay.com

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Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) @ieep.eu · 7d

The EU must turn the #CAP into a #climate tool 🌾

It is time for European agriculture to cut emissions and help reach climate neutrality by 2050 🌱

Read our latest report with @ecologic.eu to find out how ⬇️

Leveraging the common agricultural policy to accelerate livestock emission reductions - IEEP AISBL

The next CAP can unlock low-emission farming by scaling up innovation, farmer networks, and targeted incentives for sustainable livestock.

ieep.eu

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 13d

🚩RISING UP TOGETHER – a webinar on uniting climate & #FoodSovereignty movements ahead of COP30.

Hear from social movement leaders from Nyéléni 2025 & the People’s Summit Towards #COP30.

🗓️ 9 Oct

🔗 REGISTER NOW : us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#JustTransitionRising #ClimateJustice #DrawTheLine

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UNEP-WCMC @unepwcmc.bsky.social · 12d

Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a critical role in mapping and monitoring the state of biodiversity in their lands and territories. 🌎🔍🌿

Hear stories of the work by the Ogeik people in Kenya👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq...

#IndigenousPeoples #mapping #localcommunities

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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 15d

🌍 Out today in 'Nature Reviews Biodiversity': We explore landscape multifunctionality as a way to address biodiversity loss, climate change & food insecurity together. Instead of siloed fixes, multifunctional land-use integrates restoration, production & well-being.
🔗 rdcu.be/eIL2g

Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Multifunctional land-use systems supply multiple ecosystem services while contributing to biodiversity conservation. This Review summarizes the provision of ecosystem...

rdcu.be

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North Wales Wildlife Trust / Ymddiriedolaeth Natur Gogledd Cymru @northwaleswt.bsky.social · 12d

Great news! The Welsh Government is to recognise beavers as a native species and award them full legal protection. This is great news for this wonderful mammal, which can help us restore our river and freshwater habitats 💚💙💚

Read more here:
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/news/beavers...

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 12d

The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050.

🔗 bit.ly/3W7rxlP

Cover of the 2025 EAT–Lancet report, featuring an image of a person scooping up green vegetables in their hands from a large plate. The report quote: “The targets of the EAT–Lancet Commission for healthy people on a healthy planet with just food systems can only be met through concerted global action and unprecedented levels of transformative change.”

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 12d

New EAT-Lancet warns: food systems breach Planetary Boundaries.

“EAT-Lancet 2025 places justice at the centre, not only as a goal but also as a vital part of enabling transformation,” says Centre Director Line Gordon, one of the report’s lead authors.

www.stockholmresilience.org/5.5e96ff7d19...

The figure shows how much global food systems contribute to pressures on all nine planetary boundaries.

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 13d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 14d

🚨New @natureportfolio.nature.com cross-journal collection with @commsearth.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports on Climate adaptation and resilience in urban and rural communities, with Guest Editors Chenghao Wang and Edmond Totin www.nature.com/collections/...

Climate adaptation and resilience in urban and rural communities

In this cross-journal collection, we showcase studies that focus on adaptation in urban and rural areas.

www.nature.com

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Grumpy Philosopher @handle.invalid · 16d

This story isn‘t about ‘the world‘s taste for soya‘, it‘s about the world‘s taste for meat. The vast majority of soya is grown for animal feed. Less than 10% is for direct human consumption. A shame it‘s not mentioned in the story.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 16d

Achieving climate, biodiversity & pollution goals — while upholding human rights — requires fundamental transformation of food systems.

Ahead of COP30 in Brazil, IATP joins nearly 100 organizations in a global open letter calling for a just transition to agroecology.

➡️ www.reimaginefoodsystems.org

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16d

'It just so happened that farming practices still common at the time—including spring planting of cereals, limited pesticide use, hay production and mixed farming—afforded space and food for certain wild birds through their life cycles.'
www.wingedgeographies.co.uk/post/inciden...

Incidental birds in farmers’ life stories

Dr Paul MerchantNational Life StoriesThe British Library Corn buntings with farmland background Credit: Richard Crossley CC BY-SA 3.0This blog is concerned with the presence of certain wild birds in l...

www.wingedgeographies.co.uk

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 16d

Europe is the world's fastest warming continent, with climate breakdown, environmental damage and biodiversity loss putting ways of life at risk, says new @eea.europa.eu report

European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 16d

🌍🚨 Europe’s environment 2025 is out now, and the conclusions are sobering:

⚠️ Europe’s environment is in poor shape. Nature continues to degrade, biodiversity is declining, and Europe is warming faster than any other region.

www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

#EuropesEnvironment2025

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges

Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degr...

www.eea.europa.eu

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 16d

🥗🫀On #WorldHeartDay, 20 organisations representing civil society, health associations and medical professionals say it loud: Europe cannot cut cardiovascular disease without tackling unhealthy diets!

Read the letter 👉✉️ foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 17d

Happy (?) 17th birthday to the excellent "Wake Up,Freak Out, then Get a Grip" video of @crisortunity.bsky.social

Posted online Sept 29 2008

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...

Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip (HD)

YouTube video by Ligermorph

www.youtube.com

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Orsi Nyárai @orsinyarai.bsky.social · 17d

"Maintaining diversity within tree-based farming systems can provide households with more means to diversify their diets with foods from the farm & market. Preserving biodiversity within & around tree-based farming systems may also increase the availability of micronutrient-rich foods in the wild."

CIFOR-ICRAF @cifor-icraf.org · 17d

How do trees on farms make a win-win for people and nature?

Enhancing awareness of the role of trees in promoting ecologically sustainable & nutritious diets is essential for designing more sustainable landscapes for both people & the planet.

Learn more:🔗 https://bit.ly/3L4NHx3

#Trees4Resilience

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Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · 18d

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Orsi Nyárai @orsinyarai.bsky.social · 18d

"Traditional values such as interconnection, sacredness, gratitude, collectivism, sharing and self-sufficiency have underpinned Amadiba foodways for centuries."

theconversation.com/traditional-...

Inspiring article on the values-based #FoodSystems of the Amadiba community in South Africa.

Traditional food systems nourish communities and protect the environment: lessons from South Africa’s Amadiba

The Amadiba community in South Africa holds fast to traditional farming. They have also withstood pressure to mine their land.

theconversation.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22d

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Orsi Nyárai @orsinyarai.bsky.social · 22d

"If you believe there is anything worth defending in society, then defend it. It requires active participation from all of us, building & strengthening relationships, decentralizing ideas & power. Community isn’t a player piano, it’s an orchestra, & it needs you on the timpani."

Not just in Oxford.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23d

“Britain is fractured. The only way to rectify this is to reorganise.” Oxford trade union activist Toby James writes for the Clarion on the power of collective action in a world of remote work and self-employment – and how Oxford can lead the way. oxfordclarion.uk/time-for-oxf...

Time for Oxford to organise

With the far right hogging the headlines, Oxford trade union activist Toby James says the city can buck the trend – but only if we work together, from allotment associations to school governors to com...

oxfordclarion.uk

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 23d

This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species, potentially offering a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change for forestation, agriculture and land regeneration 🧪🌳

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species. Using nitrogen-fixing species for forestation, agriculture and land rege...

www.nature.com

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