NtP TV: Acting it Out for Advocacy

by NourishingthePlanet

Nourishing the Planet is excited to introduce a whole new way to experience innovative projects and practices that are helping to alleviating hunger and poverty around the world. A new weekly video series, NtP TV brings you images, interviews and more in-depth information about different agricultural innovation. Get to know the NtP team and the innovations we are highlighting regularly, and stay tuned for more NtP TV in the coming weeks!

In this week's episode, Nourishing the Planet Research Fellow, Molly Theobald, highlights Food and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network's (FANRPAN) Theatre for Policy Advocacy project to explain how the organization is using theater to help improve the livelihoods of rural farmers -- especially women.

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The Ethics Of Killing Poachers & Their Clients

by Rimjob

Last year, a report (pdf) claimed poaching of rhinoceroses is at a 15-year high. The animals are being killed for their horns, with the increased demand coming from Asia. Rhinoceros horn is used in "traditional" Asian medicine, with (bullshit) claims it can cure a host of maledictions from cancer to erectile dysfunction.

To combat this & other threats from poachers, some conservation groups have begun supplying equipment, mercenaries, and former special forces operatives to protect elephants, rhinos, and tigers.

A few days back, Scientific American had a post about a South African nature reserve's plan to deter/deal with the people who would reward the poachers that would kill their Rhinos. The reserve is attempting to lace a Rhino's horn with cyanide. If a Rhino should be killed & its horn taken to be used by some asshole wanting to get his dick hard, he might suffer death instead.

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