Asia

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have called on the leaders of countries where polio still exists to give full cooperation to the global effort to

Publication Date:

30/01/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Polio, UNICEF, WHO, Africa, Asia, India

Environment

Conflicts, agriculture and food security

Armed conflict and civil strife were major sources of food insecurity in the 1990s and will continue to be this century, although their number and the losses associated with them may have passed their peak (see Figure 13).

Publication Date:

01/01/2000

Source: FAO

Tags:

Conflicts, Agriculture, Food Security, Developing Countries, Asia, Africa, Food Aid, Food Prices, Food Supply, Famine

Environment

The state of food and agriculture

Armed conflict and civil strife were major sources of food insecurity in the 1990s and will continue to be this century, although their number and the losses associated with them may have passed their peak.

Publication Date:

01/01/2000

Source: FAO

Tags:

Conflicts, Agriculture, Food Security, Food Supply, Malnutrition, Developing Countries, Famine, Africa, Asia, Food Aid

Environment

Life, again

A story about the return of the orangutans from the concrete jungle to the wild woods to be what they were meant and named to be each a man of the woods

Publication Date:

29/06/1999

Author(s): Neelima

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

8

Issue:

19990630

pp:

0

Tags:

Endangered Species, Monkey, Asia, Indonesia

Energy

UNITED NATIONS

United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) will provide a total of US $300 for child welfare programmes in India. An agreement, signed by Kiran Aggarwal, secretary department of women and child

Publication Date:

14/06/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, AIDS, Aid, UNDP, Asia

Air Pollution