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The CFS Collaborative Governance Dialogues are part of the UN Committee on World Food Security’s (CFS) four-year workstream on Collaborative Governance for Coordinated Policy Responses to Emerging Global Food Crises. Its aim is to exchange views on the evolving food security and nutrition (FSN) situation, track the actions being taken to address it, and reflect on how to improve the coordinated global response to these crises, as well as on the role the CFS itself should play in that response.

Unlike other CFS processes, this workstream does not produce a negotiated outcome, there are no Voluntary Guidelines or Policy Recommendations at the end of it. Instead, it convenes two dialogues a year where governments, UN agencies, civil society and other actors exchange experiences on issues affecting food security and nutrition, with particular attention to the constituencies and countries most affected. A summary report from the CFS Chair captures the discussion and feeds into the CFS Plenary’s debate on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.

For CSIPM, these dialogues matter because they sit outside the consensus-driven negotiation process. They are one of the few open spaces at the CFS, and across the UN system, for direct testimony, knowledge-sharing and debate, with a focus on those most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition.

In 2026, the CFS convened two dialogues:  Affordability of Healthy Diets and Data Gaps on Food Security and Nutrition (May, 2026) . and Addressing Gaps in Information and Data Availability Through Multi-Stakeholder Processes in Food Security and Nutrition (July, 2026). The  CSIPM engaged in both as part of the Technical Task Team, alongside other actors, in the preparation of the dialogues, and by facilitating the participation of rights-holders as speakers and attendees. 

Below we share the key messages delivered by CSIPM participants. 

Affordability of Healthy Diets (7 May 2026)

CSIPM speaker: Ximena Moreno, Brasil/Chile, from URGENCI and CSIPM Coordination Committee. 

CSIPM argued that the unaffordability of healthy diets is not an isolated market failure but a structural outcome of a food system built around profit rather than sustainability, respect for culture, or the right to food. She called for a shift from input-heavy industrial agriculture toward agroecology, and for public policies, such as public procurement programs that buy directly from small-scale agroecological producers for schools and hospitals, that make healthy food both accessible and financially viable for the people who grow it. 

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**Please note this message was delivered in Spanish;  this is not a professional translation**

FEEDING BODIES, CARING FOR TERRITORIES: RESPONSES TO THE COST OF EATING WELL

Good afternoon, everyone: 

First of all, I would like to emphasize that food must be understood in all its dimensions, not merely as a product to be consumed.

Food produced in monocultures using agrochemicals has a significant impact on the individual and collective health of those who consume it and those who grow it, as well as on ecosystems.

Food is shaped by social contracts; to be healthy, food choices must be based on the relationships established between farmers, ranchers, fishermen, shellfish gatherers, foragers, and the people who consume the food, as well as ecosystems, our traditions, and our gender roles—in contrast to ultra-processed food, which is disconnected and rife with commercial implications. Our discussions about food must highlight these relationships!

When discussing healthy diets, it is essential to understand how food relates to socio-agricultural systems—from cultivation and processing to its availability. These are key elements for affordability! 

A second point is that the unaffordability of healthy diets is a structural consequence that reflects the deepest inequalities rooted in today’s economic and socio-agro-food systems.

On the one hand, there is the commodification of food and the capitalist economic system that prioritizes profit over environmental sustainability, culture, and the right to food. On the other hand, there are powerful private and philanthropic actors who shape policies and decision-making in favor of capitalist industrial food systems, based on the agro-extractive complex.

It is unacceptable that countries with the most productive land are exporting commodities, polluting their territories, while their populations are unable to afford healthy food. 

We need to promote process-based agriculture rather than input-based agriculture, as the latter is bound to be continually affected by international crises.

Agroecological agriculture is grounded in the systemic organization of territories, fostering high biodiversity, improving ecological interactions—including those involving animals—and managing waste flows to transform them into low-cost inputs that have a high impact on soil revitalization and the maintenance of communities within their territories.

A third strategic point for us is that public policies must be geared toward addressing systemic challenges to ensure the availability of and access to food and healthy diets, especially for those who cannot afford them. 

Public food policies must be aligned with food, trade, and investment policies to support local and diversified farming, regional markets, the communities that sustain agriculture, and other forms of solidarity-based economies. 

Public funding must reach small-scale food producers who use socially and culturally appropriate agricultural practices.

They must promote living wages and social protection, and regulate misleading advertising of ultra-processed products. 

It is important to educate urban consumers to choose healthy, socially just, and environmentally sound foods. However, we must not forget that the people who suffer the most from hunger on the outskirts of cities are women of a specific skin color. For this reason, public procurement that guarantees healthy food for schools, hospitals, and other facilities—and that in turn provides financial stability for farmers—must be supported. For example, Brazil has a national school feeding program that purchases food directly from agroecological producers through its food procurement program. However, we view with deep concern the decision by government officials to eliminate school feeding programs, leaving millions of children vulnerable and destined to suffer from hunger and malnutrition.

Furthermore, we must not forget that health policies are also needed to encourage sustained action within urban food systems, both for education and for food cultivation. An example of a bottom-up public policy is the biodynamic agroforestry medicinal gardens, which serve as spaces for community interaction and the production of food and medicinal plants within public health facilities in Brasília, the capital of Brazil.

The fourth point we wish to highlight is the need to establish spaces for participatory governance within governments. 

For example, Brazil has created and funds the National Council for Food and Nutritional Security, where the government, civil society, and academics come together to analyze the best ways to ensure that healthy food reaches everyone. These types of actions have been fundamental in helping Brazil once again emerge from the ranks of nations affected by hunger.

Before concluding, I must emphasize that in 2022, this House recognized the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a fundamental human right. That is why we must work together to develop a program to reduce the production and use of pesticides and other practices that are harmful to our territories, as these are killing us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly—through various diseases.

Finally, I cannot fail to recall that the human right to adequate food is a fundamental right; that is why we cannot remain silent in the face of hunger being used as a weapon of war.

The world needs bridges of solidarity, not ruthless wars. 

Thank you very much!

Useful resources

• Watch the CFS Collaborative Governance Dialogue recording 
• Concept note and agenda are available at the CFS dedicated website
• Want to follow -up the discussion? Join the CFS 54 Plenary Session in October. 

Addressing Gaps in Information and Data Availability in Food Security and Nutrition (16 July 2026)

CSIPM speaker: Lisa Shahin, Jordan/Palestine, Arab Group for the Protection of Nature,/CSIPM Coordination Committee member. 

Lisa Shahin warned that in contexts of war and occupation data can become a weapon in itself. She pointed to the 2025 cyberattack that exposed data from roughly 600,000 Gazan households registered for humanitarian assistance, and to WFP’s data-platform partnership with Palantir, a company linked to Israeli military technology, calling for a new, rights-based, sovereignty-grounded framework for humanitarian data governance.

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My name is Lisa Shahin from the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature. I am a member of the CSIPM Coordination Committee, facilitating for the West Asia region.

Much has already been said today about the importance of better data for food security and nutrition. I would like to focus instead on what is too often avoided from these discussions: the governance of data in contexts of war, occupation, and protracted crises.

CSIPM has consistently raised this concern since the negotiations on the CFS Policy Recommendations on FSN Data in 2023. We must not forget that data is never objective or neutral. Every stage of its collection, analysis, ownership, and use reflects particular assumptions, interests, and power relations. Data can be manipulated to serve political, military, or corporate objectives, at the expense of the rights and livelihoods of the very people from whom it is collected. 

Without human oversight, data collection technologies can also risk becoming instruments that entrench the appropriation and exploitation of land, water, seeds, and other resources essential to sustaining life. 

We have a collective obligation to guarantee that human rights are at the center of data governance. This means that rights holders determine how their data is produced and used. Yet across many contexts, we witness non-consensual data extraction and sharing without meaningful rights to access, correct, transfer, or delete it, and increasing surveillance by both governments and private actors. In contexts of wars and occupation, these risks become exponentially greater, where data itself can become a weapon and humanitarian information can be used to facilitate starvation, displacement, and genocide.

We are witnessing precisely these dangers in Gaza. The cyberattack targeting the World Food Programme exposed the personal information of approximately 600,000 households, collected through humanitarian assistance registration systems. This should not be viewed simply as a cybersecurity incident. It was a targeted attack against an extremely sensitive humanitarian database concerning a population enduring genocide, manmade famine, and pervasive surveillance; a population who is required to surrender personal information to access even the most basic necessities of survival, such as food, water and humanitarian aid. 

The risks do not end with the breach itself. They also raise broader questions about how humanitarian data is governed, who has access to it, and the partnerships through which it is managed. These concerns are further compounded by WFP’s partnership with Palantir, a software company with a publicly documented relationship with the Israeli occupation. In her 2025 report, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Palantir has provided predictive policing technology, core defense infrastructure for military software, and an AI platform enabling real-time battlefield data integration for automated decision-making. Against this backdrop, reports indicate that Palantir provides WFP’s data platform which integrates humanitarian beneficiary data, raising profound concerns about the security and potential for weaponization of this data.

Humanitarian organizations have an obligation to apply the highest possible standards of data protection and due diligence. Partnerships with entities complicit in facilitating serious violations of international law are incompatible with these obligations. Our call for accountability is directed at the institutional decisions that permit such partnerships and fail to adequately protect the highly sensitive data entrusted to humanitarian organizations by populations seeking life-saving assistance.

Finally, we call for a new governance regime for data, grounded in human rights and data sovereignty. Such a framework must define the legitimate boundaries of data collection and prohibit forms of data processing that undermine or deliberately attack individual or collective autonomy, dignity, and self-determination.

Within this framework, we urge the adoption of much stronger safeguards to prevent the exposure and weaponization of humanitarian data, together with a thorough re-evaluation of partnership and procurement processes to ensure full compliance with international law.

Thank you.

CSIPM speaker:   Tai Pelli, International Indian Treaty Council/United Confederation of Taíno People, CSIPM Data Working Group 

Tai Pelli brought to the panel an Indigenous Peoples perspective on data sovereignty, describing decades of Indigenous knowledge and resources being extracted without consent or benefit-sharing, and the growing impact of data centers on water and land in or near Indigenous Peoples’ territories. She called for Free, Prior and Informed Consent, grounded in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), as the non-negotiable foundation of any data governance framework that affects Indigenous Peoples.

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“An Indigenous Reality and Perspective on Data Sovereignty & Governance and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”

Taigüey, ituno kena itiaono, D’iri ka Tai Pelli kena Daka Boriken Taino.  Good day sisters and brothers. My name is Tai Pelli and I am a Borikén Taíno, which you may recognize as Puerto Rico. I am currently residing in the United States. 

This past April, I attended the 2nd Indigenous Peoples Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit which was hosted by the University of Arizona. While in the essence of time, I cannot be inclusive on all the issues that we, as Indigenous Peoples are encountering when it comes to Data Sovereignty and Governance, I would like to highlight areas that are of extreme and urgent importance. I will also share with you, areas for possible solutions as Indigenous Peoples, and about actions that can assist us in ensuring that our rights are protected, including the  empowerment and education of our own Indigenous Peoples. We must protect and understand the ramifications of Artificial Intelligence; data extraction; digitalization; the impact to our water resources and other natural resources, including our Indigenous lands and territories.  We must be proactive in preparation for  the tsunami -(I am an islander)- that all of these can have for us, if we do not take measures of prevention.

Although I have been doing International Indigenous Human Rights Advocacy for a couple of decades and have been a socio-cultural advocate from  a very early age, when I started hearing about Indigenous Data a few years ago, I assumed it to be just statistical numbers. When I finally learned about all the areas that this term encompasses, I became extremely worried. Most of our Peoples have little to no idea as to how intricate this subject is and how behind we are in ensuring the Protection of our Data. 

For many decades, Indigenous Peoples have been the subject of studies with no shared benefits nor reported results back to the Peoples. If anything, they were subjects of continued studies of the studies, all without the Free Prior and Informed Consent of the Peoples involved.

While broadly or even publicly undermining the value of Indigenous knowledge, sciences and technologies, we see over and over how this same information is extracted from our Peoples and then marketed without any form of reciprocity. Our traditional medicines; our farming systems – including growing healthy crops without the use of pesticides for example, or our irrigation technologies; our spiritual practices; beadworks and other Indigenous Art forms; our ceremonies;  our midwifery practices; our songs; biopiracy…are just a handful of examples of areas that have been targeted for Data extraction.

Currently, in the United States, we are reading about the number of non-Indigenous communities that are establishing local policy to ensure that no data centers are established in their communities. Interestingly, what we are not reading about are the many Indigenous communities that are already facing the impacts of Data Centers in or near their ancestral lands and territories,  and how many are already experiencing water shortages. This is not just happening in the United States, but in other countries in Latin America as well as in other parts of the world. 

Ni toh kakuhu! Water is Life! Indigenous Peoples are already enduring the impacts of Environmental Violence and Environmental Racism as it is, and diverting the limited water resources to these Data Centers is not only detrimental to human life, but to our flora, fauna, our agriculture, and has a tremendous unfathomable impact on the economic, social and cultural aspects for Indigenous Peoples. It is a menace to our ways of life, sustainability and cultural preservation. 

During the Summit, we identified the need for:  Education – utilizing layman terms so that youth and elders understand the meaning of Data Sovereignty and Governance, what it entails and how to  establish protocols, specific to the Indigenous Peoples. Community Capacity Building and Train the Trainer sessions on targets, data collection methods, measure techniques and indicators. Integrate intersectionality – education – economics – research.

Fostering intergenerational dialogue – Elders have the gift of knowing our ways, our Youth is more comfortable in using modern technology. The elders have the stories and the knowledge and the youth and young adults possess the know-how’s, are computer savvy and can be creative with data technology.

Fostering partnerships, including those with other Indigenous Peoples who have established protocols for their Data Sovereignty and can bring insight based on their experiences.

Indigenous Peoples and Communities creating their own small Data Centers and iClouds, was one of the suggestions.  

And because time is running out, I will stress on the most important one, in my opinion: creating protocols and frameworks utilizing a rights-based approach as the foundation. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, represents the minimum standards. We shall not accept anything that goes below those minimum standards. We need to encourage and foster Free, Prior and Informed Consent Protocols based on the decisions made by the Indigenous Peoples themselves. Whether it is Artificial Intelligence, Data Extraction, digitalization, and/or anything that affects Indigenous Peoples must be done with the Consent of the particular Indigenous Peoples. I remind all of you that Consultation is the means to obtain Consent. A Consultation process without the exercise of Free Prior and informed Consent is a violation of our Rights. Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance can only be achieved by the full respect and application of our Rights. However, and as I always stress, “If we don’t understand what our rights are, there’s no way we can defend them.” 

I invite Member States to read the Special Rapporteur 2025 study on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples, which underscores the negative effects of conflating Indigenous Peoples with local communities. 

I hope that the rights of Indigenous Peoples are on the forefront of the decisions made on this space.

Hahom. Thank you.

Useful resoruces

• Watch the CFS Collaborative Governance Dialogue recording
• Concept note and agenda are available at the CFS dedicated website
• Want to follow -up the discussion? Join the CFS 54 Plenary Session in October. 

Join the conversation! 

If you want to follow this process, share your experience, or contribute to building the CSIPM’s positions ahead of the next dialogue, join the CSIPM Working Group on Global Food Governance. 

Read more: 

• Food sovereignty is not possible without financial sovereignty. CSIPM at the CFS Collaborative Dialogue on Financing for Food Security and Nutrition, April 2025.
• Alert, denounce, act against hunger as a weapon of war. CSIPM at the Collaborative Dialogue on Protracted Crises, July 2025.
• Saima Zia (Pakistan / La Vía Campesina) on the wheat crisis in Pakistan. CFS kick-off meeting on Collaborative Governance, 30 May 2024.
• Why this CFS workstream matters for civil society and social movements. Explainer video by Tyler Short, 2024. 

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Scientists have found that the deadly floods across parts of West Africa in recent weeks were made more likely and intense by human-driven climate change, while the expansion of cities into flood-prone areas amplified the devastation, raising the thorny problem of how to better protect poorer urban communities. 

A report from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group highlighted how the floods hit some of West Africa’s most densely populated coastal regions, where rapid urbanisation has pushed formal and informal settlements dangerously into floodplains, while converting land into farms has reduced drainage.

Since May, West African countries including Ghana, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria have experienced weeks of torrential rain and deadly flash floods. Homes have been submerged, thousands of people displaced and over 70 people killed.

WWA scientists said climate models showed that human-induced climate change increased the intensity of the rainfall, with what was once a rare amount of rain falling in just three days – a downpour that can now be expected every two to four years.

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“The event is not rare already today and therefore the flood risk is certainly not going away but will increase in particular with additional pressures from growing populations and urbanisation,” said Friederike Otto, a professor of climate science at Imperial College London.

Impact made worse by informal settlements 

On top of climate change, scientists said urbanisation, inadequate drainage, poor waste management and the expansion of informal settlements into floodplains have left millions more people exposed to flooding.

Informal settlements are neighbourhoods which develop without authorisation from government authorities. More commonly known as slums or shanty towns, they often lack land tenure and services like running water and electricity and tend to be home to poorer communities.

Across West Africa and much of the developing world, as people have moved from rural areas to cities in search of work, these settlements have expanded into wetlands, flood-retention areas and riverbanks. This has further heightened flood risks across West African cities.

Kiswendsida Guigma, technical advisor at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, said West Africa’s coastal cities are being “squeezed between repeated flooding and rapid urban growth”, pushing infrastructure beyond its limits and making it harder for communities to recover.

Roussel Teguia, a post-doctoral research fellow at Canada’s Université Laval, said the recent floods have exposed longstanding failures in urban planning across West Africa’s fast-growing coastal cities where much of the region’s economy is concentrated.

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Teguia said the floods are deadlier due to factors including rapid urbanisation in low-lying areas, lack of affordable housing alternatives and the long-standing marginalisation of poor communities. He also condemned the destruction of wetlands, mangroves and floodplains for roads and buildings when instead these natural bodies “should be treated as critical public safety infrastructure”.

“These floods should not be understood only as natural disasters,” he said. Residents of informal settlements must stop being treated as the problem, since they are often the first victims of “an urban model that exposes them to risk and then blames them for being exposed”, he added.

Short-sighted approach to relocation

Cote d’Ivoire’s capital Abidjan recorded 59 of the deaths, with about 20 dying in the densely-settled slope neighbourhood of Mossikro. Local media reported that authorities had previously relocated residents from this area due to fears about vulnerability to deadly landslides and flooding, but some people had returned to previously evacuated sites and died when the hillside collapsed due to the rain.

Local authorities have since started demolishing houses in the area, to the anger of many locals who say they were not consulted or warned about the demolitions, which are costing them their properties and livelihoods. “If you destroy this place, where am I supposed to go?” one unnamed resident told Al Jazeera.

The government says many of the structures were built illegally in flood and landslide-risk zones and it plans to move 3,000 people first and 2,000 more later. Municipal official Yue Hilaire told the TV channel the municipality has been trying to persuade them to leave for a long time. “Frankly we are tired,” he said. “The mayor instructed us to evict them because we don’t want to witness another tragedy every year.”

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Guigma said that to avoid people returning, the government should ensure that “where people are relocated they also have relatively good economic opportunities for them to stay”.

Demolishing poor people’s homes without offering real alternatives is not prevention, Teguia argued, calling on governments to provide safe, serviced and affordable land close to jobs and transport, stop the occupation of wetlands and regulate powerful land owners and users.

Relocation programmes often fail because they are designed as land-clearing or security operations rather than social processes, he explained.

Governments must move from reactive crisis management measures to a long-term comprehensive approach to risk, Teguia said. Relocation policies need to be just, fairly compensated, include affected communities and encompass economic and social networks – otherwise they “simply move the vulnerability elsewhere”, he warned.

Finance gap limits flood response

The WWA scientists said deadly floods will continue unless governments do more to reduce people’s exposure and vulnerability, calling for investments in safe and affordable housing, improved drainage and sanitation, stronger enforcement of building regulations, more effective early warning systems and greater involvement of at-risk communities in planning.

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Joyce Kimutai, research associate in extreme weather and climate change at Imperial College London, said the study is a clear example of “the need for international cooperation on climate justice”, adding that developed countries have a responsibility to help nations like Togo, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana to adapt to a worsening problem that, as low emitters of greenhouse gas, they did not cause.

But significant financial support for countries grappling with increasing climate disasters may still be some way off. Earlier this month, the UN’s fledgling Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) postponed approving its first round of projects after requests for support far exceeded the money available.

One of the roughly 180 submissions the fund received was a Nigerian recovery and resilience project to address flood losses and damage in Lagos which is prone to yearly flooding. 

Otto of Imperial College London said such situations where the role of climate change is certain “should be the kinds of events where this fund should pay and help, but of course, that would require first money to be in the fund”. 

Ghana and Togo have also identified increasingly frequent flooding as a major climate risk in their national adaptation plans, prioritising investments in drainage, resilient infrastructure, flood management, early warning systems and climate-resilient urban planning. 

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But while these adaptation plans acknowledge that delivering the proposed measures requires more international aid, wealthy nations are likely to have missed their 2025 goal of doubling adaptation finance for developing countries. Funding reached just over $30 billion in 2024, far below the target of $40 billion by 2025.

The WWA findings underscore the urgent need to speed up support for vulnerable communities who have done little to cause climate change, said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, adding that “all climate finance commitments must be delivered in full”.

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Just across the road from the waterfront in Brunswick, Semona Holmes lives in a house surrounded by fruit trees, potted flowers, a fish pond, and — when it rains or the tide is extra high — floodwater.

“If you can imagine this entire area here completely flooded,” she explained on her front porch on a recent afternoon. “The flooding would be — we would have, like, a river on our street.”

The floodwater has reached to her knees at times. Once, after a hurricane, her neighbor canoed down the block.

Improvements to the stormwater system have helped a bit in recent years. But Holmes’ concerns go beyond the inconvenience of an occasionally flooded street. She lives about half a mile from a former pesticide plant, which is now a toxic Superfund site — one of thousands of contaminated former industrial sites identified by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Holmes is worried about what the floodwaters contain.

“Everything from that chemical plant has flowed into our community,” she said.

Scientists want to get a better handle on what, exactly, has flowed into this community’s air, soil, water, and people. Researchers from six institutions will soon launch Georgia’s first Superfund research center, with $15 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Over five years, the team of scientists from Emory University, the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College, and Texas Tech University will look at Glynn County’s four toxic Superfund sites, including the one near Holmes. 

The work has two main goals, according to Emory public health professor Noah Scovronick.

“One is to understand the health effects of past chemical exposures, and the other is to try and reduce people’s future exposures,” he said.

To do that, they’ll study links between the toxic substances at the former industrial sites and possible health effects, and conduct environmental sampling to figure out how and where people may have been exposed. 

They’ll also need to model impacts of climate change, like rising seas and stronger storms. On sites that have toxic materials stored in structures or under caps, flooding could breach those containment measures, which are supposed to keep people safe from exposure.

“We want to be sure that the remediation that is ongoing at those sites is resilient to extreme weather moving forward,” Scovronick said. 

Holmes, standing in her garden, worries about pollution in the soil and water from a nearby superfund site. Emily Jones / Grist

The researchers met with community members like Holmes to plan their work, so that the studies can answer the lingering questions Glynn County residents have about the industrial pollution in their environment.

Holmes and her family already don’t drink their tap water or eat seafood from Glynn County waterways. But she said they need more information about what chemicals they’ve been exposed to, and the possible consequences. She has six grandchildren, several of whom attend an elementary school just blocks from the nearest toxic site.

“We want them to be healthy,” she said. “And you don’t want to worry that they’re playing on a playground that has contaminated soil.”

Even if the new research uncovers damage that can’t be undone or exposure to health risks that can’t be reversed, Holmes said, it’s important to have all of that documented — and acknowledged by the companies that operated the industrial sites in Glynn County.

“It shows that you care about humanity,” she said. “And that you are able to acknowledge that, ‘Yeah, by our actions, we have possibly contaminated an entire county.’”

But beyond that recognition of wrongdoing, Holmes said, “There has to be continued action.”

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Rising seas magnify the dangers of coastal Georgia’s industrial past on Jul 20, 2026.

This is a guest blog by Dr Michael T. David,  Founder and Executive Director of the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP). GIFSEP is a non-profit organization founded on the ideals of Environmental Education, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development. They mobilize communities to build resilience to a changing climate so as to conserve and protect the environment.

For years, the people of Awo Akpali, a remote community in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State in Nigeria, have lived with the painful legacy of coal mining. While the coal extracted from beneath their land generated wealth for coal mining companies, the community was left with environmental degradation, poor health, and no access to one of the most basic necessities of modern life i.e  electricity.

Community members at the training session on how to install and maintain solar pv system photo credit: GIFSEP

When night fell, so did healthcare.

At the community’s Primary Health Centre, health workers often relied on torchlights and the light from mobile phones to attend to patients. Mothers in labour, sick children, and emergency cases faced an uncertain future whenever they arrived after sunset. Essential healthcare services were severely limited, not because there were no health workers, but because there was simply no electricity.

Today, that story is changing. As part of its Solar for Communities Initiative, the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) has installed a solar power system at the Awo Akpali Primary Health Centre, bringing clean, reliable electricity to a facility that had operated in darkness for years.

Terrance,  project lead GIFSEP and hospital staff after installation is complete .Photo credit: GIFSEP

The initiative was implemented with support from 350Africa.org and the Global Greengrants Fund, demonstrating how renewable energy can improve healthcare while advancing climate justice for underserved communities.

The solar installation is more than an energy project, it is restoring dignity to healthcare. Health workers can now provide services safely at night, power essential medical equipment, preserve temperature-sensitive medicines, and offer better care to patients when they need it most.

For GIFSEP, the intervention represents the next chapter in a long-standing partnership with the community.

Through its Coal Free Nigeria Campaign, GIFSEP previously worked with residents of Awo Akpali to build awareness of environmental and community rights. Community members were trained to understand the environmental, health, and social impacts of coal mining and empowered to advocate for the protection of their land and livelihoods. Their collective efforts contributed to the eventual closure of the coal mining operations that had negatively affected the community for years.

 

Solar inverter at the hospital.   credit: GIFSEP

Rather than leaving the community with only the closure of the mine, GIFSEP sought to demonstrate that cleaner and more sustainable alternatives are possible.

Under the Solar for Communities Initiative, residents were sensitized on the benefits of renewable energy as a practical solution for communities that remain outside Nigeria’s public electricity grid. Women and young people also received hands-on training in basic solar installation and maintenance, equipping them with practical skills that can create new livelihood opportunities while supporting the adoption of clean energy within their community.

Community members at the training session on how to install and maintain solar pv system  led by GIFSEP.Photo credit: GIFSEP

This approach reflects a broader vision of a just energy transition, one that not only moves communities away from polluting fossil fuels but also ensures they benefit from cleaner technologies, improved livelihoods, better healthcare, and increased resilience.

 

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