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Survival has documented dozens of human rights abuses against Bushmen by wildlife officials in the Kalahari A group of Bushmen who were hunting antelope to feed their families have been shot at from a police helicopter – which later crashed injuring six officers – while it was enforcing Botswana

Corruption , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Food / 08/07/2016

Syria’s wheat shortage deepens

Hazem Badr Syria’s ongoing wheat harvest is not large enough to feed people living in areas controlled by the government, researchers have warned. According to a study by Syria’s Public Authority for Agricultural Research, Syrian farmers sold 450,000 tons of wheat last year — less than half th

Business , Food , Sustainable Development / 08/04/2016

FAO Food Price Index down slightly in July

The overall drop after five months of growth reflects a slide in prices for grains and vegetable oils Wheat prices fell in July driven by large global supplies and prospects for abundant export availabilities from the Black Sea region. 4 August 2016, Rome – The international prices for major food

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Food / 07/19/2016

Are sharks going extinct next?

Marianne Furtado de Nazareth 100 million sharks are killed by humans every single year Contrary to what famously terrifying movies like ‘Jaws’ would have their horrified audiences believe, Marine ecologist Neil Hammerschlag says that sharks pose only a very small risk to humans. In fact,

Education , Energy , Environment , Food , Labour , Multimedia , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Transport , Videos , Water / 06/05/2016

Self-sufficient Cities May Hold the Key to the Future

Juan Vargas The Pukika Experiment consists of building a self-sufficient city for 3 million people By the end of the century, we’ll need to build urban housing for 5 billion people. This is the product of our increasing population and the current urbanisation trend. Today, there are slightly over

Business , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Food , Human Rights , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 05/03/2016

Widespread ingestion of packing chemicals revealed

The growing use of plastic food containers in developing countries means their citizens are now exposed to as much bisphenol A (BPA) as those in rich countries, a research review has found The paper, published in Food and Chemical Toxicology earlier this month compiles data from 16 studies. It found

Biodiversity , Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Sustainable Development / 02/04/2016

Indigenous people assert their rights over Sundarban Forest, India

More than 200 people from the region assembled at a Public Hearing in Sundarban islands and asserted their rights to the island’s mangrove forests in India “The tiger is not our threat, the Forest Department is.” The people, through submissions made to the Independent Public Hearing Panel

Biodiversity , Education , Environment , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/02/2016

Wetlands for Sustainable Livelihoods, Harare’s story

Ken Irvine Today is World Wetlands Day; the 2016 theme is ‘Wetlands for our Future: Sustainable Livelihoods’. This theme is selected to demonstrate the vital role of wetlands for the future of humanity and specifically their relevance towards achieving the new Sustainable Development Goa

Environment , Food , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 01/04/2016

Rainwater harvesting brings hope to farmers in Pakistan’s Punjab

Aamir Saeed Punjab’s Small Dams Organisation constructed 20 mini dams during the year 2000 and 2010 to help farmers irrigate more acres of land Extreme weather conditions and erratic rainfall had added an edge of desperation to Muhammad Khan’s struggle for survival, taking him and his family to

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Education , Energy , Environment , Featured , Food , Forests , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Resources , Science & Technology , Soil , Sustainable Development , Transport , Water / 12/14/2015

The Paris climate agreement at a glance

Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; James Whitmore, The Conversation; Michael Hopkin, The Conversation, and Wes Mountain, The Conversation On December 12, 2015 in Paris, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change finally came to a landmark agreement. Signed by 196 nations, the Paris Ag

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