Outreach and media
Illustrative compilation of media coverage of our works.
2024
Interview for RTBF on cocoa prices spike: https://www.rtbf.be/article/pourquoi-le-prix-du-cacao-s-envole-t-il-c-est-aussi-la-faute-a-la-speculation-11350766
2023
Participation to RTBF debate on “La face cachée du chocolat”, 4 October 2023: https://auvio.rtbf.be/media/declic-l-emission-en-tv-declic-3095566
Some media coverage on our work on Ivorian cocoa supply chains and deforestation, Renier et al. (2023) Environmental Research Letters:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/13/science/climate-change-is-threatening-valentines-day-we-know-it/
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/chronique-des-mati%C3%A8res-premi%C3%A8res/20230409-c%C3%B4te-d-ivoire-plus-de-la-moiti%C3%A9-des-f%C3%A8ves-de-cacao-ne-sont-pas-tra%C3%A7ables
https://croissanceafrique.com/cote-divoire-letat-dispose-a-commercialiser-85-de-la-production-de-cacao-sur-le-marche-de-lue-officielle/ (in French)
2022
Some media coverage on zu Ermgassen et al. (2022) Science Advances:
https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/noticia/2022/04/ponto-cego-compromete-rastreamento-de-40-das-commodities-de-areas-de-florestas-25495356.ghtml
https://climainfo.org.br/2022/05/01/combate-ao-desmatamento-estudo-aponta-ponto-cego-no-rastreamento-de-commodities/
Some media coverage on the article 10 Facts about land systems for sustainability (examples):
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60295788
https://www.lalibre.be/planete/environnement/2022/02/07/leffet-papillon-de-lusage-des-terres-2O3NELP6PNCDFCITTX7ZH5PXZU/
https://dailyscience.be/08/02/2022/dix-verites-sur-nos-sols-a-ne-pas-perdre-de-vue/
https://www.lavenir.net/cnt/dmf20220207_01661570/proteger-les-terres-on-sait-mais-on-regarde-ailleurs
Website with broad audience Report for policy and practice:
http://10facts.glp.earth/
Media coverage on our work with Trase mapping supply chains of agricultural commodities (example of a recent one, there are many more): https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/
2020
Some selected news articles about our work mapping the origin of Brazilian beef exports, led by Erasmus :
https://reporterbrasil.org.br/2020/10/how-morgan-stanley-is-linked-to-deforestation-in-the-amazon/
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/brazilian-meat-giant-jbs-expands-its-reach-in-china/
2019
Participation to MAG INTER magazine on forest fires in Brazilian Amazon, LN24 channel, September. http://www.lalibre.be/actu/sciences-sante/l-annee-des-savanturiers-5772c30e35708dcfedb977aa
2011-2017
Some media coverage of our work on constraints and tradeoffs on recultivation of abandoned cropland in Former Soviet Union:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-04/russia-is-an-emerging-superpower-in-global-food-supply
Interview in Imagine demain le monde 121, May-June 2017, “Securiser l’accès à la terre”.
Interview in FNRSNews, 105, June 2016, “Alimentaire, mon cher Watson!”
Interview in Défis Sud, 112, April-May 2013, Conservation des forêts ou développement agricole.
Possoz L, Meyfroidt P (2012) Sortir de la crise par la relance? La Libre Belgique, 9 June 2012.
Comment reboiser le monde? Interview in Imagine demain le monde 85, May-June 2011.
2010
Some commentaries on Meyfroidt et al. 2010, PNAS:
http://www.lalibre.be/societe/planete/article/623671/la-deforestation-s-exporte.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/11/16/3067422.htm
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/november/woods-outsource-deforestation-112410.html
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/1124-hance_leakage.html
2009
Some commentaries on Meyfroidt and Lambin 2009, PNAS:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=a-tree-grows-in-vietnam-and-another-2009-08-31
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0902-vietnam.html
http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/2009/08/31/not-in-my-forest/
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/futures/40316
http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/09/28/how-vietnam-exports-deforestation-interview-with-patrick-meyfroidt/