
Orla Dwyer
Journalist at Freelance
Journalist at Carbon Brief
🌱 Food, land and nature journalist @carbonbrief. Previously: @thejournal_ie ✉️ [email protected]
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1 week ago |
interactive.carbonbrief.org | Orla Dwyer |Yanine Quiroz |Kerry Cleaver |Tom Pearson
According to the FAO, agroecology is a “holistic and integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable agriculture and food systems’. It is “concurrently a science, a set of practices and a social movement”, the FAO adds.
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4 weeks ago |
carbonbrief.org | Orla Dwyer |Yanine Quiroz |Daisy Dunne
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. TRANSFORMING FOREST FINANCE: A Forest Declaration Assessment report revealed that global forest finance is “not only falling short, but actively fuelling deforestation”, said Down to Earth.
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1 month ago |
carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Daisy Dunne |Orla Dwyer
Countries have agreed at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome to a strategy for “mobilising” at least $200bn per year by 2030 to help developing countries conserve biodiversity. Nations also agreed for the first time to a “permanent arrangement” for providing biodiversity finance to developing nations, “future-proofing” the flow of funds past 2030.
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2 months ago |
interactive.carbonbrief.org | Orla Dwyer |Tom Prater
Various impacts were recorded – ranging from floods ruining fields of corn in Tanzania, through to drought and heat destroying coffee in Vietnam and withering the “famed” Cambodian Kampot pepper. Carbon Brief has used the events found within the media analysis to create the map below, which shows 100 cases of crops being destroyed by heat, drought, floods and other extremes in 2023-24. Legend Explore the map by clicking on any of the markers for more information.
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2 months ago |
carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne |Orla Dwyer
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. TRUMP TARIFFS: US president Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with the rest of the world sent ripples through global food markets this month.
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Defra recently paid £57.5m from the farming recovery fund to English farmers hit by intense rain last winter - which is 75 times more than the amount given the last time the fund opened in 2020, figures released to Carbon Brief show

NEW – Revealed: English farmers received record-high flood relief after last winter’s extreme rain | @orladwyer_ w/ comment from @AliceGroom2 @tommlancaster @rachelhallos Read here: https://t.co/VUhsJhMFb1 https://t.co/QQlXGlmCVr

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