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118 | Kenyan Herders Say Judgement Against Them Based on Forged Signatures / Continuation of Episode 117
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117 | Surviving Survival Internatinal, Part 1: Kenyan Elders Call Foul on International Media, NGOs
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116 | From Ticking Time Bomb to Demographic Dividend: James Mwangi and Kenya's Great Carbon Valley
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115 | Unpacking Donald Trump's Very Weird Environmental Orders
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114 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger? Part 1
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113 | The Future of Environmental Finance: Strategies for Biodiversity and Climate Solutions, with David Hill and George Kelly
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112 | Fantasy Football and Dynamic Baselines: New Tools for Impact Assessment
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111 | The False Dichotomy Between Reductions and Removals (Rerun)
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110| Ecological Economics, Systems Thinking, and the Limits to Growth
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109 | How Brazil's Quilombola Communities are Planting the Seeds of Sustainability for Small Farms Around the World, with Vasco van Roosmalen of ReSeed
93| Digitizing Zimbabwe’s Farms, with Chiyedza Heri
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Zimbabwean entrepreneur Chiyedza Heri runs the Ubuntu Alliance, a company that’s helping farmers leverage carbon finance to shift to more sustainable forms of agriculture.
She’s one of more than a dozen young Africans I met at year-end climate talks in Dubai (COP 28) — a new breed of entrepreneur that the late Ghanian economist George Ayittey calls “cheetahs” because they’re nimble, quick, and hungry.
Green Cheetahs pursue activities that are pro-nature as well as pro-growth, and today’s guest certainly fits that bill.
