Next week I'll be presenting at POLLEN 2026 in Barcelona 🌍 — my talk, "Uneven climate adaptation and the politics of gender mainstreaming in Sri Lanka's dry zone," is part of the political ecology of climate finance session. Looking forward to it! @pollenetwork.bsky.social

I found this NYT article ("Sorry, but this is the future of food") to be very problematic. For starters, Grunwald misrepresents the situation in Sri Lanka and their so-called organic experiment. See @nethmisachy.bsky.social & I's article for a different perspective: news.mongabay.com/2022/08/draw...

Drawing the wrong lessons from Sri Lanka’s organic farming experience (commentary)

Since the downfall of Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in mid-July, some commentators have blamed the economic crisis and social unrest that precipitated his departure on his nominal ...

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AmericanMom2018@smghrammsmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...

Analysing #climateadaptation interventions in #SriLanka’s dry zone in #PolityLK this week @nethmisachy.bsky.social turns a #feminist #politicalecology lens to expose the nuances these projects miss. polity.lk/victims-or-s...

Nethmi Bathige | Victims or Saviours? Women in Climate Adapted Agriculture Projects in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone

Nethmi Bathige is a PhD Student in the geography department at the Pennsylvania State University, USA

polity.lk

“We used to earn a lot of money, but now there is too much rain - all of our onions rot." @nethmisachy.bsky.social From the archive: originally published 21/6/24 www.landclimate.org/...

A Sri Lankan village was offered help from the UN’s Green Climate Fund – now they feel misled - Land and Climate Review

New research looked at an adaptation project funded by the World Bank & UNFCCC-run Green Climate Fund. Instead of helping farmers, it helped their corporate partners.

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Check out the Call for Abstracts and the gallery of Organized Sessions for DOPE+ 2024, February 22-24. Hope to see you there! Links 🔗 below 👇🏼 www.politicalecology.org/sessions www.politicalecology.org/abstracts2024

Really grateful to the wonderful Social Scientists’ Association in Colombo for the opportunity to ramble and attempt to make sense of what I’ve been up to for the last 7-8 months :)

📣 Glad to share that the article with my former professor Bill Moseley on food security and dietary diversity among tea smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka is now published online in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 📝 ✨ 🍃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Hi everyone 👋 I am posting on behalf of the Dimensions of Political Ecology + Conference (until we get a Bluesky account) on here. The DOPE+ organizers are excited to announce that we will be holding the 13th DOPE+ conference between 22-24 February, 2024. Stay tuned for more info in the future ✨

Hi everyone 👋 my first post on blusky social ⛅️ many more to come!