“Where Conflict Meets Climate: A Story of Resilience” recounts my kidnapping while working in a conflict- and climate-affected zone. During three months in captivity, witnessing deaths deeply scarred me yet revealed our shared humanity beyond race or class. Through dialogue, I helped deradicalize seven combatants, who later reintegrated and joined me in restoring 85 hectares of burned forest transforming pain into purposeful action for peace and nature.
On the Way of Resilience With the Baobabs / Sur Le Chemin de la Résilience Avec Les Baobabs
The story’s setting is a village in the Menabe region of central-western Madagascar. Affectionately called “the Land of Baobabs”, it is also unfortunately the land of slash-and-burn agriculture. Tahina, an agronomist and forester, believes firmly that soil is the core ingredient of a resilient and sustainable relationship between the local communities and their landscape. He journeys to meet his friend Bendray, a farmer-ranger and together they launch an initiative called “Taniala Regenerative Camp”. This initiative contributes to the regeneration of soils and ecosystems through permaculture design, agroecology, agroforestry and ecological restoration.