OEF in the Media

Fernando Pieschacón, Oficial de Comunicaciones de PASO Colombia, y director de la serie “Sembradoras de Paz” fue invitado a hacer una videocolumna en el portal web Razón Pública.

The national newspaper El Tiempo published an article on "Women Seeding Peace," a video series that brings together the stories of peasant women who voluntarily substituted crops for illicit use.

In a recent article in Reuters, OEF Senior Researcher, Jay Benson spoke about the potential for increased demand for diaspora bonds, listing potential issuers with large diasporan populations as Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ecotourism could also play a part. “Responsible dolphin watching expeditions can provide alternative livelihoods for local communities and promote conservation,” says Nelly Isigi Kadagi, a joint postdoctoral fellow at the University of Denver in Colorado, and the US nonprofit One Earth Future.

In that report, lead author Colleen Devlin breaks Somalia’s recent past into three distinct periods: from 1998 to 2000, conflict between domestic and foreign fishers soared; from 2002 to 2010, Somali pirates took control of the water, driving back foreign vessels; and from 2014 to 2015, piracy calme...

For local communities already struggling with pollution and climate change, illegal industrial fishing “is an additional stressor that depletes fisheries resources,” says Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, a research consultant for Colorado-based One Earth Future who was not involved in the study.

Kjell Roland, Norfund CEO, said: This is an important investment and proofs the entrepreneurial spirit of Norfund. With Shuraako as a partner, we have a local team on the ground that works already.

Our Secure Future highlighted in Just Security oped by Ambassador Donald Steinberg

Melissa Hanham, a nuclear and open-source intelligence expert at the One Earth Future Foundation, said that while satellites are more capable than ever before, all space sensors could instead fly closer to land on aerial platforms, so planes offer higher-quality images.

And there appears to be plenty of room for sustainable growth, according to the One Earth Future Stable Seas Maritime Security Index, as long as the focus switches from top-of-the-food-chain fish, such as sharks, tuna and marlin, and concentrates on the smaller pelagic fish, like the Indian oil sard...