WE TELL STORIES ABOUT PLANTS AND PEOPLE Land Stories is a storytelling project by our partner Jibal, an NGO in Beirut working for environmental and social justice, centered on Lebanon and the nearby region. All stories portray people and the crops they grow, from wheat and apples to citrus and aubergine, on land that was central to the beginnings of world agricultural history. Read More
Monetizing Nature: Taking Precaution on a Slippery Slope Some seek to establish tradable prices for ecosystem services, claiming that markets can achieve what politics has not. However, such an approach collapses nature’s complex functions into a set of commodities stripped from their social, cultural, and ecological context and can pose a threat to the poor and indigenous communities who depend on the land for their livelihood. By Barbara Unmüßig
