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Ranjan Panda & Pragati Prava The Covid pandemic has aggravated the hunger crisis in the world. Conflicts, climate change and economic downturn had already been increasing the number of acutely food-insecure people in the world over the past four years. In 2019, according to estimates

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Environment , Food , Forests , Gender , Labour , Sustainable Development / 08/05/2020

How are farmers responding to COVID-19?

Pavel Devyatkin The cases from Ecuador, Ghana and Nepal show that the impacts of the pandemic are different for women, indigenous peoples and rural populations. Forest and farm producer organizations, known as FFPOs, and the people they represent, produce 70 percent of the world’s food while using

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 08/04/2020

3 Billion Animals Died or Displaced by Australia’s Bushfire Crisis

Nearly three billion animals – mammals, reptiles, birds, and frogs – were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating 2019-20 bushfires. It’s almost three times an earlier estimate released in January. The breakdown is 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds, and 51

Biodiversity , Climate , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Human Rights , Monitoring , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/02/2020

IUCN unveils Global Standards for nature based solutions

The new IUCN Global Standard will help governments, business and civil society ensure the effectiveness of nature-based solutions and maximise their potential to help address climate change, biodiversity loss and other societal challenges on a global scale. “The world is looking for durable and ef

Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Monitoring , Resources , Sustainable Development / 07/29/2020

HIGHEST NUMBER OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS MURDERED IN 2019

Global Witness today revealed the highest number of land and environmental defenders murdered on record in a single year, with 212 people killed in 2019 for peacefully defending their homes and standing up to the destruction of nature. The NGO’s annual report also shed a light on the urgent r

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Environment , Food , Forests , Labour , Launches & Events , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 07/26/2020

Mars Chocolate invests in Sustainable Cocoa and Palm Oil Research

The new project launched between International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Mars, Incorporated and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have will focus on two raw materials critical to the livelihoods of small-scale producers: cocoa and palm oil IFAD), Mars Incorpora

Biodiversity , Cities , Climate , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 07/23/2020

Siberian Wildfires Cover Russian Cities in Smoke

Major Eastern Russian cities are shrouded in haze as a mega fires continue to burn through Siberian Taiga forests, in what is becoming an annual occurrence It’s another year that Russian authorities have failed to stop these fires risking local communities and contributing to climate change. Gre

Biodiversity , Education , Forests , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 07/14/2020

Outrage as ‘Factory School’ for 30,000 children to host World Congress of Anthropology

Hundreds of Indigenous leaders, activists and anthropologists have denounced plans to hold the 2023 World Congress of Anthropology at the world’s largest “Factory School,” where children are told they are “never fully human.” Protestors have signed an open letter calling on the I

Biodiversity , Business , Corruption , Environment , Forests , Labour , Resources , Sustainable Development / 07/13/2020

Timber hunger in the American Housing Sector

Mike Roddy Americans consume 23% of the world’s wood products, with 4% of global population. This is fueled by subsidized timber, entrenched in a nexus of the lumber, construction, and insurance industries Americans’ habit of building houses with lumber is a 19th century relic, a method rare

Biodiversity , Climate , Corruption , COVID-19 , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Opinions , Resources , Sustainable Development / 06/30/2020

Covid-19, Climate Change, Poverty and Corruption: Quest for Nature Friendly Lives and Livelihoods

The unique nature of Covid-19 crisis have been blessings to build lives and nature friendly green planet. Strategic policy responses should be designed internalizing the effective governance to pursue both short and long-term benefits to achieve both the global resilience to climate change

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