Mette Fog Olwig
@MFOlwig
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Geographer @roskildeuni: ethnographic research on climate change, environmentalism, narratives, sustainability, the development sector
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined October 2019
1/6 Do #partnerships effectively deliver #sustainability? My @WorldDevJournal SI intro argues that #SDG universalizing management logics problematically give hegemonic power to the idea that profit-making, #environmentalism and #compassion are codependent:
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If you are unable to come on Thursday or can’t wait that long to know more about our key findings, the book is #openaccess and can be found here: #cocoa #agroforestry #climateadaptation.
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Book Launch! Next week at @DFC_Fellowship Café with @SebNielsen from Slow, Dr. Lawrence Brobbey from @KNUSTGH and @JakobKronik from @VerdensSkove who’ll relate the book to their work on cocoa, trees & farmers. Come celebrate with us (yes, there’ll be 🍫):
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Book Launch! Next week at @DFC_Fellowship Café with @SebNielsen from Slow, Dr. Lawrence Brobbey from @KNUSTGH and @JakobKronik from @VerdensSkove who’ll relate the book to their work on cocoa, trees & farmers. Come celebrate with us (yes, there’ll be 🍫):
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#Inequality, #bricolage & #NorthSouthResearch? In this piece we reflect candidly on the @nepsus_research project focusing particularly on #NorthSouth, #multimethods, #interdisiplinarity, #sustainability, #conservation & #naturalresourcemanagement research
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RT @BrandAid_World: Some of you @SASE_Meeting #SASE2024 +know us @CocoResearch have seen how there are some remarkable things going on in t….
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“Has there ever been a better reason to shop?” asks an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the card that buying “capp...
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RT @BrandAid_World: Do you want to do your own research on consumption-based helping in Italy, Denmark or the US? Free databases are availa….
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RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in Science show that agricultural diversification strategies, particularly those focused on livestock dive….
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RT @rasmussen_vang: Using data from 2,655 farms across 11 countries, we show that agricultural diversification benefits both the environmen….
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Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to...
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RT @LineJJakobsen: Happy to see this book out: with my chapter on corporate extractivism in it!.
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This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges. Whilst it could not hope to represent the full scope of anthropological
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This book is the product of a dynamic collaboration between @roskildeuni; @uni_copenhagen; @UnivofGh; @IITA_CGIAR; @Cirad & @CIFOR_ICRAF. Thank you to @DFC_Fellowship for funding the research and @Palgrave for publishing it.
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This final chapter summarizes the book’s overall findings on #cocoa #agroforestry as climate change #adaptation and points to ways forward in terms of policy, practice and research.
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Climate change is threatening cocoa production in Ghana, the world’s second largest cocoa exporter. Yet, as we have shown in this book, the impacts of climate change must be understood in the context...
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Using survey data covering 1000 cocoa plots and group interviews with cocoa farmers, chapter 5 explores the costs and benefits at the household level of including trees in cocoa systems, comparing low and medium tree diversity systems.
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Current research suggests that cocoa agroforestry systems could offer stable yields, additional benefits and income from shade trees, despite potential added costs, such as from the purchase of...
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Chapter 4 shows that farmers across the Ghanaian cocoa belt are well aware of the positive aspects of shaded cocoa systems, but different factors limit their adoption and constrain the management of shade trees.
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Agroforestry practices in cocoa cultivation have historical roots going back to the Mayan sacred groves in Mesoamerica. Today, agroforestry cocoa, i.e., the integration of shade trees, plants and...
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Based on primary data from field experiments & a literature review, chapter 3 reports on the species-specific effects of shade trees in relation to the management of insect pests, black pod diseases and their impacts on cocoa yield.
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Shade trees are important components of cocoa-agroforestry systems because they influence yields, soil fertility and the occurrence of pests and diseases and may support adaptation to climate change....
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Drawing on data from two on-field studies, chapter 2 assesses the impact of shade on cocoa’s physiological responses to determine the effects of agroforestry under differing climate change scenarios.
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Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important cash crop in many tropical countries, particularly in West Africa. Heat and drought are both known to affect the physiology of cocoa plants through reduced...
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Chapter 1 discusses the challenges of climate and cocoa farming in one of the largest cocoa producing countries in the world, Ghana, including an in-depth analysis of historical Ghanaian cocoa yields and climate data
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Climate change is predicted to significantly reduce areas suitable for the cultivation of cocoa, an important cash crop providing a livelihood to over six million smallholders in the humid tropics....
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#Climatechange is presenting a major threat to #cocoa production worldwide. This #openaccess book delivers a holistic analysis of the challenges and possibilities of #cocoaagroforestry as a concrete solution
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RT @sofie_hen: What is humanitarian hacking and who does it actually help? I went to two refugee hackathons to find out! . Read more in my….
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RT @DanBkidsbooks: Covers Reveal! Am so proud & delighted to work with the amazing Abdul Gugu and incredible APE Network on these amazing b….
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RT @Christi36159665: What do we mean internationalization? Our CoSS seminar series will feature @danbrockington tomorrow discussing Scien….
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RT @perform_earth: The preliminary program for the Environmental Humanities conference in Denmark is ready. It is a collaborative conferenc….
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