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Reflective Insights Toward Honest Hope: Collaborating To Address Global Systemic Risks

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Stay on map or disappear: is ‘polycrisis’ happening on Fuveme Island?

On the Global South’s coastal islands, daily living is increasingly becoming riskier. Protecting and preserving indigenous heritage, culture and natural environments is getting more harder. In recent times, the human-environment rights on islands like Fuveme very close Azizakpe, Agorkedzi, Anyanui, and Havui are being aggressively eroded by ocean effects caused by abrupt climate change.…

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Systemic risks threaten farmers' security

As part of a pilot research commissioned by the Accelerator for Systemic Risks Assessment (ASRA) with a support from the United Nations Foundation, I published a short textpiece to highlight rising threats of systemic risks, including climate change, to the resilence, farming investments, and security of smallholder farmers. It encourages stakeholders to embrace multi-scale collabortations to…

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Gendered-reconfiguration and governance of large transboundary waters: bringing smallholders into policy action

A re-start view Large Transboundary WaterBodies (LTWBs) or Transnational Waters (TNWs) are important natural resources that underscore, drive or support system functions of a sustainable development worldwide. Yet the LTWBs are fast-deteriorating to put the future of humanity in a serious danger than previously imagined. Both the latest Global Risk Map of the World Economic Forum and the…

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Mangroves for greening and tipping sustainability systems towards 1.5°C target world

Starting steps Anthropocene society desires for healthy, carbon-free and greener environmental conditions. At the immediate coasts, flourishing mangroves lead to good environment that is resilient, green and sustainable for (non-)human habitation. About 15% of the coastlines in the world are presently covered by mangroves according to the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN).…

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Relevance and resilience of greening cities in Global South

Looking for food spaces in cities The contribution of food growers to lightning and greening cities is widely undervalued and disrespected. Green cropping, a sub-section of urban agriculture, in particular, continues to receive mixed responses from the media, academics and policy spheres in many Global South cities. This leaves complex vulnerability issues at the chest […] Relevance and…

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Our mangroves, our taproots for futures: Havui Island commits to sustainable mangrove restoration

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Can oysters from past meet or sustain present and future needs?

The present human society places an organic emphasis on sustainable development, desires for better futures and, accordingly, formulates an ambitious future plan to live under sustainable conditions devoid of toxic emissions, diseases, noises, floods, wars, and heats. The thinking is that learning, practising and conversation bothering on sustainability must be interesting, enjoyable and…

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Living in the shadow of loss and damage: uncovering non-economic impacts

I co-authored a recent text on Living in the shadow of loss and damage: uncovering non-economic impacts. The case study received an immense support from the International Institute for Environment and Development, UK. As a reader of the Seedinglives, you can find a link to the publication after the introductory message: “Through 14 case studies from climate-hit communities in Africa, Asia and the…

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Tipping power to green, govern and sustain energy for lighting Africa’s climate

The fine idea of rapidly tipping energy dimension of sustainable development to light the future of Africa’s people, industries, schools and hospitals is catching the attention of the continent’s policymakers, investors and leaders. The realisation is that energy is one of the tipping catalysts capable of helping to add value to natural resources, accelerate public service delivery and power…

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Winning ‘climate war’ to save lives, futures

Extreme climate events are powerfully putting our lives, progress and futures at high risks (Fig.1 & Fig.2). The real climate impacts on socio-ecological systems and national economy are rising and endangering the genuine vision of the AU Agenda 2063, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Commonwealth Climate Charter and Paris Agreement for limiting global warming to 1.5oC. It is…

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'Stomach cries' in Global South: is food good for sustainability?

If you don’t eat food, then you can easily agree that there is nothing like ‘stomach cries’. Hunger or starvation, I mean! Hunger can be very severe in the lives of people in different locations. While parts of Europe and North America have relatively done away with protracted type of extreme hunger on a massive scale, the same cannot be said about devastating climate events, civil wars, poverty…

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Digitalisation and sustainability (III): is Ghana’s quest to achieve SDGs at risk?

Reader’s note: I advised that you read two versions of this article on this same title, which were published on www.seedinglives.wordpress.com with a readership in over 83 countries. Some changes happened since the previous textpieces became public. Digitaling now for futures The potential of digitalisation to positively advance equitable delivery of local governance, socio-economic services…