The Kamëntšá Cosmovision: An Intricate Reciprocal Connection Between Mother Earth and Health
In Episode One of Cosmology & Pandemic, “Colombia: The Body as Territory”, the profound cosmovision of the Kamëntšá, and the interrelated health of their culture and ancestral lands, played a central role. Indigenous Peoples have a well-developed, centuries-long...
Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot
The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This article was originally published by The Revelator On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of...
Guardians of the Forest: Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic?
This article was originally published online and then in print by Terralingua - Langscape Magazine Traditional Indigenous territories are complex, adaptable, and resilient socio-ecological systems that contain the majority of the world’s biocultural diversity. But can...
The Powerful Alliance Between Integrated Science and Traditional Food Systems
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt This article was originally published as a CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE) Thrive Blog The longest running successful experiments in sustainable human land use are found within the collectively held lands of...
The Social and Environmental Paradox of “Peace” in Colombia
Colombia is a megadiverse country, with Pacific and Atlantic coasts, distinct ranges of glaciated mountain peaks, cloud forests, paramos and two separate tropical forests. With only 0.7% of the Earth’s land surface, Colombia contains more than 10% of the known...
Controversy with the Use of Glyphosate in Colombia
Global Context of Glyphosate Use and Misuse Daniel Henryk Rasolt - Unbounded World For many, glyphosate conjures up images of vast industrial monocultures, genetically engineered crops, and huge global industries and corporations. But glyphosate in particular, as the...
What a soil microbiologist does in the Amazon
When I decided to become a soil microbiologist, I knew that the soil could be the most diverse environment in the world, but there was minimal information regarding how extremely diverse Amazonian soils are. Today we know Amazonian soils contain more than 700...
Magnesium: Connecting Human and Planetary Health to the Stars
Our Elemental Origins It is easy for us humans – with our self-proclaimed superior intelligence over other species, and ability to innovate and exploit the natural world to our whims – to forget or ignore that we are in fact part of nature. This is not solely an...
The True Cost: Negative Externalities of Energy and Food and Failures of the Free Market
Climate change is a reality, and the depletion of a whole range of fundamental ecosystems and resources of our planet is staring us right in the face. Along with rising global health problems related to pollution and diet, how is it that so many of the principal...
Cambodia: The Depth of a Smile
Cambodia is one of the saddest, happiest, charming, impressive, crumbling, richest and poorest countries I have been to. It is truly a land of contrasts. Recent history, between their undesired role in the Vietnam war, to the horrific rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer...