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Cadmium levels in waste pickers ‘four times higher’

Washington Castilhos Cadmium, lead and mercury are highly toxic and carcinogenic. High levels of cadmium and lead can have neurological, digestive and cardiovascular impacts, while mercury is associated with systemic toxicity in the kidneys and central nervous system. Waste pickers exposed to discar

Swadesh in Bastar, India: How Lift Irrigation Changed Lives in Kelaur Village

Sneha Kaushal, Raju Kumar Recognizing the importance of having a perennial source of water when planning any agricultural activity and change, the women of Kelaur, India installed solar energy-powered water pumps, allowing them to cultivate vegetables and fruit in their homesteads, which brought ab

7 Ways to Reboot the Indian Rural Economy Post COVID-19

Avijit Choudhury As India is primarily an agrarian economy supporting 60% of the population, reviving agriculture and allied sectors would be critical post COVID. As India enters into the 4th phase of lockdown, we are caught between the dilemma of savings lives or protecting livelihoods by keeping t

China’s economy is recovering quickly, as are its carbon emissions

Wang Yan Big investments in traditional infrastructures are driving the economy, but a path to green growth remains open Macroeconomic data for the first half of 2020, published on 16 July by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, revealed a striking recovery. Second quarter GDP growth turned po

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

We’re flying less. And wild places that count on tourism dollars are starting to take notice

Dimitri Selibas Between flight shaming and a global pandemic, destinations that depend on travellers to protect ecosystems are finding themselves with fewer resources to do so. Rincon del Mar, a beachside hamlet on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, is part of a burgeoning industry that is helping to tur

Doing Business Differently to Save the Planet

Karin Helmstaedt Patagonia says that they are effectively making the business case for reinventing capitalism along with saving the planet. In late May I had the pleasure of moderating the fully digitized Global Communication Summit 2020 in Berlin. It was a first for the event in this form, the “g

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

Who are the Corporate Pandemic profiteers-Big names out there

Pharmaceutical and tech companies and wealthy white Americans benefit from dramatic pandemic profits, further exacerbating inequality While the United States faces the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression because of COVID-19, a subset of corporations is reaping dramatic profits that

Hollowed-Out US Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus

Lauren Weber and Laura Ungar and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-Jester The US public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century. Marshaled against a virus that has sickened at leas

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