Improving environmental stewardship requires improvement of the options available down to the poorest resource users. Agriculture will no longer be the path to development and better options that it once was, without rethinking how and where to intervene. An iconic video game provides a lens into how this can happen.
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Bell, A.R. From Mario Kart to pro-poor environmental governance. Nat Sustain 4, 376–378 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00685-8
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