Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2017
Asia and the Pacific is the region most affected by natural disasters which hit hardest at the poorest countries and communities. And on present trends, as more migrants crowd into slums and shanty towns
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Income inequality trends in sub-Saharan Africa: divergence, determinants, and consequences
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) underscore the need to address broad inequalities in their quest to ‘leave no-one behind.’ Income Inequality
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Uganda: New Plan to Fight Food Insecurity, Poverty Launched
Kampala — Send a cow Uganda Non Government Organization has launched five years strategic plan which will see over 200,000 Ugandan families supported to overcome food Insecurity challenges. The 2015/2020
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Farmer ignorance on seed variety blamed for poor yields
James Wasike, a maize farmer in Simatwet, Trans Nzoia County has already prepared his farm ready for planting and recently bought ‘hybrid’ seeds from a hawker at nearby Moi’s Bridge town. He is happy
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Africa: Seeds Without Borders- Using and Sharing Plant Genetic Diversity to Adapt to Climate Change in Africa
Seeds without borders: Using and sharing plant genetic diversity to adapt to climate change in Africa 11 African countries gathered last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to implement seed sharing and
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Greening of China’s agriculture: a synthesis
This report reviews current agricultural policies in China and their role in support of China’s broader environmental goals. The policies reflect an expansion of agricultural policy objectives to better
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Reducing climate risk and poverty: why China needs ecosystem-based adaptation
As climate risks increase, China’s government must help its people — particularly the poorest farmers — to adapt and thrive. One increasingly popular and tested strategy is to adopt ecosystem-based approaches
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Add farming to rural job scheme
<br /><br />  <br />TAMIL Nadu Farmers
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Statistical abstract of Delhi – 2022
The present Statistical Abstract 2022 is the Tenth in the series brought out by the Directorate on the basis of secondary data sources. The uniqueness of Statistical Abstract is that it contains time series
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Paris climate agreement has ‘failed’ poor countries, report says
The international climate deal agreed in Paris has “failed to include meaningful mechanisms” to guarantee financial support for poorer countries adapting to global warming, according to a report by Oxfam.
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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification: Technical manual version 3.0
<p>The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a common global scale for classifying the severity and magnitude of food insecurity and malnutrition.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/food-security-nutrition.pdf"
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Study climate change impact on food production
M.S. Swaminathan delivers talk at sustainable development meet “Develop science to overcome the impact of the changes in the climate on food production,” M.S. Swaminathan, eminent agricultural scientist,
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Floriculture success transforms life in poor Tripura village
A poverty-stricken Tripura village has blossomed into an exporter of flowers after the villagers adopted floriculture with the assistance from Horticulture Department and Technology Mission.
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Africa most affected by food insecurity, says UN chief
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Saturday said the food insecurity is on the rise and Africa is the continent most affected by it. Guterres was speaking at a high-level event organized
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Scarcity of land, water is a severe challenge
Deepening degradation and scarcity of land and water resources pose a severe challenge to the world's capacity to meet human demands by 2050, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf said on Monday.
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Transforming agriculture in Africa & Asia: what are the policy priorities?
Successfully eradicating poverty through agriculture depends on whether a country has enough agricultural land, how fertile it is, and the demographic pressures. That is the key finding of new research
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Revitalizing Indian agriculture and boosting farmer incomes
This book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’
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Enough land for housing urban poor: Cept
AHMEDABAD: Contradicting general perception that there is not enough land for accommodating the poor in the AMC city limits, a study by Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) University
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Goalkeeper: the stories behind the data 2018
Booming population will become a problem for Africa by 2050 if the continent does not begin to seriously promote family planning, a report has warned. This warning was contained in the Goalkeeper data
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PMO asks State to clarify on poverty, negligence to farmers
Bhubaneswar:The Odisha government has swung into action after the Prime Minister Office (PMO) recently sought clarifications from it on the alleged deplorable conditions of the farmers, oppression on the