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Julia Baum

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Germany
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Julia Baum’s Biography

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Dr. Julia Baum is a systems thinker and storyteller with a passion for social-ecological research, conservation, communication, and entrepreneurship. She holds an M.Sc. in Geoecology (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and a Ph.D. in Conservation Biology (University of Cape Town, South Africa). Her career spans private and community conservation, strategy and planning, partnership development, and conservation enterprise consulting. Julia also works at the intersection of policy and ge…

Julia Baum’s Journalist Portfolio

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Rethinking remittances: the overlooked billions sustaining African households

Rethinking remittances: the overlooked billions sustaining African households

FinTech, migration policy and AfCFTA must align to unlock the development potential of remittances in Africa.

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Africa has critical minerals but needs a unified strategy

Africa has critical minerals but needs a unified strategy

As global powers race for Africa's minerals, the real challenge is not natural endowments but governance, val…

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Why Africa's electrification matters to the world

Why Africa's electrification matters to the world

Access to electricity across the continent is rising, yet it is low and unevenly distributed, limiting develo…

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Africa's future demographic dividend matters to Europe today

Africa's future demographic dividend matters to Europe today

Africa's demographic surge offers Europe a chance to rethink labour, migration and global partnerships throug…

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The sanitation gap in Africa's progress

The sanitation gap in Africa's progress

Behind Africa's poor sanitation and safe water statistics lies a development crisis-one that is costing billi…

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Democracy, disconnected: the quiet rise of digital control

Democracy, disconnected: the quiet rise of digital control

In an age of hyper-connectivity, the power to shut down the internet is the power to shut down democracy.

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The ‘tragedy of the horizon' is here

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By Julia Baum
| The Globe and Mail Verified
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Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment Original

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By Julia Baum, Marc Johnson, Sarah Otto
| The Conversation Verified
The federal government recently released “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada,” a discussion paper proposing to fast-track major infrastructure developments. The paper comes less than two months after A Force of Nature, the government’s new $3.8-billion strategy committing to protect 30 per cent of Canada’s lands and waters by 2030. The dissonance between the two is striking. A Force of Nature aims to protect ecosystems and wildlife for the betterment of Canada.
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Africa: The Hormuz Chokepoint Is Threatening Africa's Food Supply

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By Julia Baum, Marvellous Ngundu
| AllAfrica
analysis Fertiliser disruption exposes a blind spot that farm-level policy has long ignored - but Africa holds the resources to fix it. Africa's next food crisis may not begin on the farm, but in a distant shipping lane. With the Iran war, international attention has focused on oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and related shortages or price spikes in energy and fuel. Less visible is another vulnerability moving through the same corridor: the fertilisers underpinning global food production.
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