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Climate Funds for World's Poorest Slow to Materialise
Lyndal Rowlands
Climate change is making poor countries poorer, yet funding meant to
address its economic consequences has been slow to materialise. Instead
funding bodies are choosing to invest in green energy projects in
middle-income countries.
The trend continued last week when the Green Climate Fund ...
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Financing Key to Reaching Everyone, Everywhere with Water & Sanitation
John Garrett
Eighteen months ago, UN member-states pledged a new set of goals on
eradicating extreme poverty and creating a fairer, more sustainable
planet by 2030. This week, we have alarming evidence that at least one
of those goals – Sustainable Development Goal 6, to reach everyone
everywhere with access to ...
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Reflections on World Health Day
Martin Khor
What’s the most precious thing in the world which unfortunately we take
for granted and realise it true value when it is impaired? Good health,
of course.
That’s something many people must have reminded themselves as they
celebrated World Health Day on 7 April.
Attaining good health and ...
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Did You Know that the Oceans Have It All?
Baher Kamal
Perhaps you are not aware enough of the fact the oceans have it all!
What is “all”? Well, oceans have from microscopic life to the largest
animal that has ever lived on Earth, from the colourless to the
shimmering, from the frozen to the boiling and from the sunlit to the
mysterious dark of the ...
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From Research to Entrepreneurship: Fishing Youth and Women out of Poverty
Friday Phiri
Ivy Nyambe Inonge, 35, is the treasurer of Mbeta Island Integrated Fish
Farm in Senanga district. Her group won the first prize in Zambia under
the Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF) Expanding Business
Opportunities for African Youth in Agricultural Value Chains in Southern
Africa. She is excited ...
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Fishing Village Fights Iron Mine in Northern Chile
Orlando Milesi
In Punta de Choros, a hidden cove on Chile’s Pacific coast, some 900
fishers do not yet dare celebrate the decision by regional authorities
to deny the Dominga port mining project a permit due to environmental
reasons.
The fishers, from the northern region of Coquimbo, are afraid that the
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World Must Act Now on Lake Chad Basin Crisis: FAO DG Graziano da Silva
Eva Donelli
Food assistance is a priority and the only way to prevent the crisis
from worsening in the Lake Chad Basin, is to support food production
according to José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
“We need to take action now and ...
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Economic Recovery Crucial to Sustainable Development
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
More than eight years after the global financial crisis exploded in late
2008, economic growth remains generally tepid, while ostensible
recovery measures appear to have exacerbated income and other
inequalities. Yet, despite the G-20 group of the world’s largest
economies raising the level, ...
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Women’s Health Policies Should Focus on NCDs
Neena Bhandari
Science and medicine were not subjects of dinnertime conversations in
the Norton household in Christchurch, New Zealand, but Professor Robyn
Norton grew up observing her parents’ commitment to equity and social
justice in improving people’s lives. It left an indelible impression on
her young ...
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Malala Yousafzai Becomes UN's Youngest Messenger of Peace
Tharanga Yakupitiyage
Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai has become the youngest UN
Messenger of Peace with a special focus on girls’ education.
During a designation ceremony, UN Secretary-General António Guterres
selected and honoured Yousafzai as the organisation’s Messenger of
Peace.
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Breast Milk is Exported to the US
Erik Larsson
In a shed made of boards and tarps, one-year old Nune is in deep sleep
as his mother Check Srey-Toy gently rocks his hammock. Then she tells me
that she sells her breast milk to the US.
They have no front door. Privacy is a sheet of cloth drawn across an
opening. A gas burner on the ground. A ...
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Microbes, New Weapon Against Agricultural Pests in Africa
Busani Bafana
Microscopic soil organisms could be an environmentally friendly way to
control crop pests and diseases and even protect agriculture against the
impacts of climate change, a leading researcher says.
Africa is battling an outbreak of trans-boundary pests and diseases like
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Poland, New Player in Islamophobia Game
Claudia Ciobanu
Ameer Alkhawlany moved to Poland in September 2014 to pursue a Master's
in biology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland's second
largest city. Two years later, the Polish state awarded him a scholarship to complete a PhD in the same faculty.
Pawel Koteja, his professor at the ...
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Gold Mine Aggravates Tensions in Brazil’s Amazon Region
Mario Osava
The decline of this town is seen in the rundown houses and shuttered stores, and the few people along the streets on a Sunday when the scorching sun alternates with frequent rains at this time of year in Brazil’s Amazon region.
“There is still a lot of gold here,” said Valdomiro Pereira Lima, ...
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