Poverty

Hunger on the rise: soaring prices add 75 million people to global hunger rolls

Provisional FAO estimates show that the number of undernourished people in 2007 increased by 75 million, over and above FAO

Publication Date: 
17/09/2008
FAO
Tags:
Food Prices, Malnutrition, Poverty, Africa, Asia, South America, Developing Countries, Food Security
Wildlife

 Primates losing race

Against habitat loss, hunting and trade primates, mankind

Publication Date: 
14/09/2008
Sumana Narayanan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Endangered Species, Wildlife, Monkey, Hunting, Wildlife Trade, Poaching, Africa, Madagascar, Cambodia, Vietnam
Agriculture

 Virus scare

Lethal viruses are taking over the world of food IN agricultural research, new breakthroughs have helped elaborate the workings of two strains of potentially lethal viruses destroying important food crops like wheat and maize. Research into the Maize Streak Virus (msv) destroying Africa

Publication Date: 
14/09/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Plant Diseases, Wheat, Maize, Africa, South Africa, United States Of America (US)
Climate Change

 Science & Technology - Briefs

environmental sciences Climate change indicators One of uk

Publication Date: 
14/09/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Indian Ocean, Health Effects, Cancer, Monsoons, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Health, Insects, Science, Africa, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US), Food Security, Rainfall
Climate Change

Africa Must Grasp Carbon Funds for Development - UN

Africa must grasp funds generated by carbon credit trading to pay for cleaner, cheaper energy and help fight climate change that threatens to undo years of economic development, the UN climate chief said on Wednesday.

Yvo de Boer, attending the first pan-African carbon-trading forum designed in part to match specialist investors with low-emission projects in Africa, said African countries had been discouraged by low carbon investment relative to other regions.

Publication Date: 
04/09/2008
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Economic Development, Africa
Climate Change

Warming may cause animals to evolve into new species

Edinburgh: A new research at the Edinburgh University has suggested that climate change could make Africa

Publication Date: 
02/09/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Animal Breeding, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Africa
Agriculture

Subsidised fertilizer: two views

In Malawi, the fifth poorest country in the world, the government introduced a voucher programme for small scale farmers, providing them access to subsidised fertilizer
and seed. The country suddenly saw bumper harvests in both 2006 and 2007. Are fertilizer subsidies the way out of poverty for small scale farmers in Africa?

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Eric McGaw, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Laifolo Dakishoni & et al
LEISA
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16
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs, Legumes, Farmers, Subsidies, Private Sector, Africa, Malawi, Food Security
Wildlife

Desperate measure

To restrain the growth of Kruger's elephant population, 14,562 animals were culled from 1967 to 1995, when South Africa banned the practice. "It was extraordinarily traumatic," says Ian Whyte, the park's longtime elephant specialist, who witnessed many of the culls. "You had to shut your mind to it, otherwise you'd go mad." Now elephant specialists are being forced to consider culling again. While poaching continues to threaten elephants in Kenya and elsewhere, in southern Africa conservation measures have been so successful that populations are booming.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Karen Lange
National Geographic
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64
Tags:
Elephant, Wildlife Management, National Parks, Poaching, Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Climate Change

Global glacier changes: facts and figures

There is mounting evidence that climate change is triggering a shrinking and thinning of many glaciers world-wide which may eventually put at risk water supplies for hundreds of millions

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
UNEP
Tags:
Glaciers, Climate Change, Africa, Asia, Europe, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South America, Antarctica, Global
Wildlife

Trading nature

This report looks at the importance of effective management of trade in wild species in order to maximize its potential to deliver on the MDGs. It also presents the findings of three case studies: the wild meat trade in East and Southern Africa; the skin and wool trade in Latin America; and, the highvalue

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Dilys Roe
TRAFFIC International
Tags:
Fisheries, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Trade, Africa, South America, Sustainable Development, South Asia

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