Food & Water

Shane has been busy with the next generation on and off the farm too, visiting schools with a herd of Old Irish Goats. Once a common sight in the Irish countryside, this rare native breed is helping to revive a cultural heritage that has lessons to teach us today, on biodiversity, wildfire management, and the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.

A climate doctrine must integrate resource mobilization, agricultural modernization, energy diversification, and territorial planning within a coherent framework—one that anticipates rather than reacts, protects rather than repairs, and organizes rather than fragments.

As a core component of our sustainability and scale-up policy, RUWAI is establishing Climate Resilience hubs across Africa. This innovative, inclusive, and sustainability-driven initiative serves as a centralized spot to equip rural women, youth, children, and people living with disabilities with the essential tools, education, skills and resources required to transcend poverty and forge a resilient, brighter future.

In this episode, Nate is joined by biologist and farmer Jason Bradford, to discuss his ‘Farming Club,’ which offers hands-on learning for ecologically based agriculture, where members also get to take home food and build a relationship with the land.

New fibre eco systems will always be place-based and context driven and every instance will likely be different depending on the history, land, culture and personalities of the residents.

Why water scarcity is not a climatic inevitability, and how nature-based solutions can rebuild life in landscapes under stress.