Dr Anja Bless
@anja-bless.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Studies & Global Societies, UTS
Sustainable food systems 🌏 Food politics 🐄 Environmental politics
Sustainable food systems 🌏 Food politics 🐄 Environmental politics
Really enjoyed this new work by Johansson and colleagues on the rise of 'carbon farming', and how soils are being 're-valued' as carbon sinks with questionable credibility by the private sector: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The race for carbon in farmland: global mapping of the emerging voluntary market for soil carbon credits
Carbon farming is increasingly promoted as a strategy to achieve net-zero climate targets. This paper examines voluntary carbon market programmes through a global inventory and discourse analysis t...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Really enjoyed this new work by Johansson and colleagues on the rise of 'carbon farming', and how soils are being 're-valued' as carbon sinks with questionable credibility by the private sector: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article alert! 🚨
In this paper, we explore the drivers for regenerative agriculture's emergence and growth in Australia and how this has been influenced by a neoliberal policy context.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In this paper, we explore the drivers for regenerative agriculture's emergence and growth in Australia and how this has been influenced by a neoliberal policy context.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Commodification and co-benefits: Neoliberalism and the growth of regenerative agriculture in Australia
‘Regenerative agriculture’ is attracting increasing attention as a farming approach which could rejuvenate agricultural landscapes and support farmer …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
New article alert! 🚨
In this paper, we explore the drivers for regenerative agriculture's emergence and growth in Australia and how this has been influenced by a neoliberal policy context.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In this paper, we explore the drivers for regenerative agriculture's emergence and growth in Australia and how this has been influenced by a neoliberal policy context.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Dr Anja Bless
Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 23, 2023 ~ This too
"Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called 'heartbreaking' and 'a profoundly distressing moment'."
"Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called 'heartbreaking' and 'a profoundly distressing moment'."
Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events
Scientists say widespread damage to both world heritage-listed reefs is ‘heartbreaking’ as WA reef accumulates highest amount of heat stress on record
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 23, 2023 ~ This too
"Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called 'heartbreaking' and 'a profoundly distressing moment'."
"Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called 'heartbreaking' and 'a profoundly distressing moment'."
Reposted by Dr Anja Bless
The 2024 state of the climate report: a report by leading international scientists on recent trends in planetary vital signs.
(Ignore at your peril.)
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
(Ignore at your peril.)
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
March 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The 2024 state of the climate report: a report by leading international scientists on recent trends in planetary vital signs.
(Ignore at your peril.)
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
(Ignore at your peril.)
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Reposted by Dr Anja Bless
Excited to have our first member event for 2025 - guest speaker Christian Torres is speaking to us about the adoption of front-of-pack warning labels in Mexico
February 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Excited to have our first member event for 2025 - guest speaker Christian Torres is speaking to us about the adoption of front-of-pack warning labels in Mexico