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We’re proud to have contributed to the creation of the largest marine reserve in the Atlantic Ocean, which will help protect green turtles, millions of breeding seabirds, and some 173 different fish species. We worked with OceanMind and the Ascension Island government, researching the effectiveness of satellite monitoring to support patrol vessel operations in the proposed Marine Protected Area. With a new understanding of the levels of legal and illegal
fishing activity, and how satellite monitoring could help enforcement, the Ascension Island Council announced its support for the reserve in 2019.
Dr Gwilym Rowlands
Oxford Martin Fellow on the Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans
Earth Observation Scientist at the Department of Zoology
THE NATURAL WORLD?
MAKE BETTER USE OF LAND AND WATER
The environmental impact of what we eat and how it is produced could increase by 50-90% by 2050. Wide-ranging changes to how we produce our food will be needed if we are to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, depletion of water resources, and pollution with fertilisers and pesticides.
The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food has set out proposals that would keep the world within sustainable environmental limits while still feeding a global population
of 10 billion. Sustainable intensification is needed to produce more food from the same amount of land with less environmental impact. Diets need to include more fruit and vegetables and less sugar and fat. We cannot continue to waste as much food as we do and we need to stress test the global food system to ensure it is resilient to biophysical and political disruption. The programme seeks both to define targets for the food system and to determine the policy tools to get us there.
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