The white elephant in the room at COP26
In the room where it is being clarified whether or not there will be 100 billion a year for adaptation for poor countries, there is an elephant impassively observing the meetings. In the English-speaking world, this metaphor means that there is an issue that is obvious to everyone, but it is avoided
Why is this announcement in Finland so serious?
In the inaugural post on www.estatera.org I talked about some of the changes that are going to happen in the global food system in the next decade. A glaring example has been made public in recent weeks in Finland: the team at VTT, a public research company, has just developed what they say is the [
Why this website?
In recent decades there have been impressive advances in rural development, the fight against hunger and malnutrition. We were not doing badly. However, in recent years there have been setbacks, partly due to COVID19 and increased conflict, but also because part of hunger eradication has proved unyi