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Health

Managing the health effects of climate change

Effects of climate change on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk. During this century, earth's average surface temperature rises are likely to exceed the safe threshold of 2

Publication Date: 
16/05/2009
Anthony Costello, Mustafa Abbas, Adriana Allen & et al
Lancet
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Drinking Water, Health Effects, Climate Change, Global Warming, Extreme Weather Events, Technology Transfer, Climate Adaptation, Migration, Urbanisation, Sanitation, Health Care, Poverty, Developing Countries, Food Security
Agriculture

Biofuels and food security: implications of an accelerated biofuels production

The objectives of this study are : to present a comprehensive review of the status of biofuels developments around the world and the policy regimes and support measures driving this evolution; to assess the agro-ecological potential of all major biofuels crops

Publication Date: 
16/05/2009
& et al, Gnther Fischer, Eva Hizsnyik, Sylvia Prieler
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
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Food Crops, Food Prices, Deforestation, Ethanol, Climate Change, Biofuel, Transport, Biodiversity, Rural Development, India, Global, Food Security
Agriculture

 The demoralizing esculent

When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease In 1769, the wheat crop failed in France. Bread, the French staple, disappeared from boulangerie shelves. There was rioting in the streets of Paris and hordes of undernourished people looted bakeries. The French monarchy which had just scraped through the Seven Years

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
Kaushik Das Gupta
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Potato, Vegetables, Famine, Leprosy, History, Europe, France, Food Security
Agriculture

 News 360<sup></sup>-Briefs

food security Congo leases 30% of its land The Republic of the Congo has invited South Africa

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Animal Care, Animal Breeding, Pigs, Congo, Urban Water Supply, Fisheries, Marine Fisheries, Hybrid Electric, Transport, Cars, Water Supply, Farmers, Subsidies, Patents, Somalia, South Africa, Germany, Mexico, Food Security, London
Health

 Nutrition challenge

View image Fifty per cent child deaths are due to malnutrition 230 million people in rural India are undernourished They account for 27 per cent of the world

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
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Malnutrition, Health, Women, Child Health, Anaemia, India, Statistics, Food Security
Agriculture

 Regional cooperation can improve food security

Bhutan Bank

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Food Security
Agriculture

 From the Andes to the stars

The humble potato has come a long way IN 1852, Karl Marx described the peasantry as a sack of potatoes. The fickle attitude of farmers towards the short-lived Paris Commune had irked the old revolutionary. He would be a little less condescending towards peasants, elsewhere. But according to all evidence never thought it necessary to redeem himself with potatoes. The potato has been

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Potato, Vegetables, Famine, Ireland, Global, Food Security
Climate Change

The coral triangle and climate change: ecosystems, people and societies at risk

This report sets out the full extent of the threats and proposes solutions to the challenges facing the Coral Triangle and its people. Based on a thorough consideration of the climate, biology, economics and social characteristics of the region, it shows why these challenges are increasing, and how unchecked climate change will ultimately undermine and destroy

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
& et al, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Hans Hoegh-Guldberg, John E. (Charlie) Veron
WWF Australia
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Ecosystems, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Life, Corals, Marine Fisheries, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, People, Biodiversity, Global, Developing Countries, Food Security
Agriculture

Introduction of Indian origin hybrid seed to destroy cotton production

The introduction of Hybrid Cotton technology of Indian origin will not fetch any positive results and will actually instead will destroy the country

Publication Date: 
12/05/2009
Razi Syed
Daily Times (Pakistan)
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Agriculture, Seeds, Cotton, GM Crops, Poverty, Agro-Based Industry, Pakistan, India, Food Security
Agriculture

Biotech crops poised for second wave of growth, says study report

COIMBATORE: Biotech crops are poised for a second wave of strong adoption that will drive sustained global growth through the end of the second decade of commercialisation

Publication Date: 
12/05/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Biotechnology, Food Security

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