I know, right? 🤷🏻 peer-reviewing also stressed that + how they are doubling down on the original message. Apparently one of the reasons why the NCC editors decided to publish the correspondence

Fyi, Zimm and colleagues have also written a response to our piece. You can find it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Much of that effort was led by the tireless @neildawson.bsky.social and funded by @frbiodiv.bsky.social / Cesab. Publications available in open access from my website brendan.coolsaet.eu

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

We also went to great lengths to get this disseminated in the press and got about 40 media outlets to reference it, including big ones like Politico and Le Monde. The timing helped too, as it was published days before the 2021 World Conservation Congress in Marseille

It's always a bit of a mystery why some papers get picked up more than others. I think this one resonated bc it addresses something that practitioners had been looking at for a while ("why is it that conservation works betters when IPLCs lead it?") but long only had circumstantial evidence for

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Building on the keynotes, the 2nd session is a roundtable on 'Human Ecology meets Environmental Justice'. We'll be joined by Matthieu Berger (UCLouvain) and
Vasna Ramasar (Lund University) to continue and deepen the discussion in a more intimate setting! Join us: www.societyforhumanecology.org

We argue that European farmers have lots to learn from the long histories of Indigenous struggle for environmental and food justice in Latin America, including political autonomy, food sovereignty, cultural self-recognition, counter-hegemonic knowledge production models and collective stewardship

In other words, the farming crisis is European coloniality coming home. Today's agri-food system is perhaps the most visible expression of plantations' legacies at the heart of the West (extreme inequalities, modern-day slavery, extractive land usage, globalized trade, racialized violence)

A system where land, labor, & capital only profit some, where people are denigrated as inferior, based on codification of difference and on the marginalisation of their knowledge and where landscapes & crops are modeled on sameness, where else have we seen this? Right, in the global South...