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1 month ago | 
desmog.com | Hazel Healy |Brigitte Wear
La version originale de cet article a été publiée en anglais sur DeSmog le 22 mai 2025. À l’entrée du marché aux poissons, à la périphérie de Joal-Fadiouth, ville côtière du centre du Sénégal, un groupe de femmes s’est installé à l’ombre d’un petit pavillon. Autrefois, le marché était animé par des vendeurs de glaces et de sel, mais aussi par des charrettes tirées par des chevaux qui ramenaient le poisson de la plage.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Hazel Healy |Brigitte Wear |Karen McVeigh
At the entrance to the fish market in Joal-Fadiouth, a coastal town in central Senegal, a group of women have set up shop under the shade of a small pavilion. A few years ago, they say, the market would have been bustling with ice-cream sellers, salt vendors and horse-drawn carts delivering freshly caught fish to the women, who would set about sun-drying, salting and sorting the catch into affordable portions for local families to buy.
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1 month ago | 
desmog.com | Hazel Healy |Brigitte Wear
At the entrance to the fish market on the outskirts of Joal Fadiouth, a coastal town in central Senegal, a group of women have set up shop under the shade of a small pavilion. The market used to bustle with ice cream sellers, salt vendors and horse-drawn carts bringing fish from the beach. Today, trade is dead: “Without fish, we have no money to send our children to school, buy food or get help if we fall ill,” says trader Aissatou Wade.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
desmog.com | Brigitte Wear
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector – one that proponents have long argued can help conserve wild fisheries. The argument goes that farming seafood instead of catching it will provide respite to over-fished species at sea. Farmed fish themselves also need to eat, however. And some of the world’s most valuable species, like salmon and trout, are fed on fish from the ocean.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | Clare Carlile |Brigitte Wear
Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions, the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
nationofchange.org | Clare Carlile |Brigitte Wear
Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
desmog.com | Brigitte Wear |Hazel Healy |Michaela Herrmann
The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 4 July 2024Les initiatives phares visant à garantir un « approvisionnement responsable » pour le secteur mondial de l’aquaculture en Afrique de l’Ouest se trouvent compromises par des conflits d’intérêts systémiques, menaçant ainsi les efforts déployés en vue de préserver des stocks de poissons essentiels, comme le révèle l’enquête de DeSmog.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Clare Carlile |Brigitte Wear
Above photo: Andrew Skowron / We Animals Media. Brazilian meat giant JBS invested just 0.03 percent of annual revenues into climate measures, researchers found. Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
desmog.com | Clare Carlile |Brigitte Wear
Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions, the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Brigitte Wear |Hazel Healy |Michaela Herrmann
Above photo: A super trawler fishing off the coast of Mauritania, West Africa. Credit Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace. Campaigners criticise “highly flawed” voluntary schemes. DeSmog analysis finds lack of representation from civil society, or impacted communities. Flagship initiatives to ensure “responsible sourcing” for the global aquafeed industry in West Africa are being undermined by systemic conflicts of interest, endangering efforts to safeguard critical fish stocks, DeSmog can reveal.
