Sandy Nofyanza
@nofyanza.bsky.social
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PhD student at @globaldevinst.bsky.social | learning about place, people in place, poverty, and prosperity | views mine
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"deep-sea miners claim zero-waste mining is possible"

well it is only possible if you have very specific definitions of what waste from mining is (& also make assumptions what you are comparing) - basically it is not true in reality

triplepundit.com/2025/deep-se...
TriplePundit • Is Deep-Sea Mining As Harmful As Mining On Land?
Is Deep-Sea Mining As Harmful As Mining On Land?
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👩🏻: Nin could you bring me a croissant, please?
🧒🏻: *bringing mum her snack*
👩🏻: Nuhun (Sundanese for 'thank you')
🧒🏻: *confused* noon..

😂
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"It was the final session on the last day of the 2025 DSA Conference in Bath. Yet, it stood apart from any other session I’ve experienced in my entire career."

Read Sandy Nofyanza's reflections on a 'Gaza Action Planning Workshop' and the takeaways for the higher education sector.

bit.ly/3TYpbEr
Building bridges with Palestine: DSA 2025 reflections on what higher education can and must do - Global Development Institute Blog
by Sandy Nofyanza, PhD student in GDI It was the final session on the last day of the 2025 Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference in Bath. Yet, it stood apart from any other session I’ve exp...
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New from Tyndall Centre + international researchers: GlobalRx, the first global dataset of prescribed burns spans over 200K records across 16 countries and 12 biomes🔥

With #ClimateChange reshaping burn windows, GlobalRX is vital for safe, adaptive land management.

📖 Read more: buff.ly/gQtZiNU
A large amount of smoke billowing out of the sky, with bright sun visible on left-hand-side, in a controlled burn in Dallas County, Alabama, in the United States. Photo by Cody Eason via Unsplash
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Little guy is learning how to read

🧒🏻: deh-a-deh -- dad
🧒🏻: mmm-o-mmm -- mum

Soooo british 😂
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I agree. And this is why interventions like REDD+ were only resulted in modest impact at best since it's not directly (and unable to) addressing wealth-related d&d drivers. The money from REDD+ is tiny compared to nickel mining money.....
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Dr Carmenta who was part of the team said “Interventions to protect or enhance forest resilience must be beyond the site-level, capable of influencing the distant, often wealth-related drivers of deforestation and degradation"
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A new global report released today - World Environment Day - reveals how forests contribute to social and economic resilience in the face of disturbance and change. 🌎🌳

Read more:
bit.ly/4dPXXJw

#WorldEnvironmentDay #ThisIsUEA #UEAExpert #Forests
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Well, ignoring reality won't make them go away 🤣
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Imagine if Mar-a-Lago were hit by a hurricane without any prep. No data, no research, no early warning.
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🌳Two new papers from Johan Oldekop and the Sustainable Forest Transitions team have been published this week.

The first is written by GDI's Johan Oldekop, Lucas Alencar, Katie Devenish, Thuy Duong Khuu, Mariana C. Hernández-Montilla, Sandy Nofyanza and colleagues: bit.ly/4i4Tino
Navigating data challenges in socioeconomic impact assessments of conservation regimes
Scholars are increasingly assessing the impact of conservation interventions at national and regional scales with robust causal inference methods designed to emulate randomized control trials (quasi-...
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We are pleased to share with you a new blog post written by the GDI Students for Palestine group.

The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester.

Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn
Palestine and Global Development - Global Development Institute Blog
At The University of Manchester, GDI Students for Palestine is a collective of voices united by shared values of justice, equality, and solidarity.
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk
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Dressing up as a pterodactyl for #WorldBookDay 📚