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Jack Thompson
Verified
Food Journalist, Freelance
Dakar, London
Beats
Biography
A freelance journalist and communicator reporting on the nexus of food, farming and the environment, based in Dakar, West Africa. The global food system is complex - as a farmer's son with a master's in food policy and 10 years of experience in the sector, there are few better qualified to report, analyse and articulate its importance to the public. Previously developed a national magazine on sustainable food, Wicked Leeks, and bylines at Modern Farmer, Hakai, The Japan Times, Vittles, and Africa Business. Fluent French and Spanish speaker, and learning Wolof, the language in Senegal.
Luxury, Retail, Fashion
Content
By Matteo Civillini Verified, Jack Thompson Verified| Climate Home News Verified The spotless white-sand beach of Le Lamantin luxury resort in Saly, about 90 kilometres south of Senegal’s capital Dakar, is lined with neat rows of sun loungers and parasols. Here, holidaymakers enjoy jet-skiing, catamaran-sailing and spa therapy, unaware that their hotel is benefiting from international climate finance channelled through the World Bank Group. Just a few kilometres further south, however, local fishermen in Mbour, the country’s second-largest fishing port, are struggling.
By Jack Thompson Verified| Barchart@ ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women’s rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution.
By Jack Thompson Verified| Positive News Verified With its ‘underwater gardens’ echoing a tradition of sustainably harvesting the local waters, we go beneath the waves at a community-owned, regenerative Welsh seafood farmWhen Francois Beyer first pitched the concept of 3D ocean farming to the Welsh regulators, he had to sketch it on napkins. Today the seafood farm is much more than a drawing, but if you walked along the Welsh coastal path near St David’s, all you’d see is a line of buoys.
Company Info
Freelance
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