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JAKARTA — When the Indonesian government announced its food estate program in 2020, it envisioned the establishment of large-scale agricultural plantations across the country. These plantations of crops like rice, cassava and potato were supposed to be the answer to what the government says is an impending global food crisis, and would help feed the […]
<strong>The long read</strong>: Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn’t good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable
Litterlayer in the fruit agroforest. Photo: ICRAF/University of Palangka Raya/Meine van Noordwijk
Provided Jenny Goldstein, assistant professor of global development, visits West Lombok, Indonesia, to study the role that environmental conservation and development play in terms of governance, data, human health and ecological change. Jenny Goldstein explores Indonesia’s environmental crises March 3, 2021 Power dynamics shape the contours of our lives, influencing just as much the physical environment as the social worlds we inhabit. In the best cases, power is wielded for equitable means; but more often, these dynamics play out to destructive ends. As a political ecologist...