Arkiv for kategorien ‘Food’


Climate Change Threatens Crucial Marine Algae

onsdag, 9. maj 2012

(IPS) – Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, sunlight is to kill an unknown number of ocean…

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Climate Change Has Intensified the Global Water Cycle

fredag, 27. april 2012

ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…

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Climate Change Likely To Impact Corn Market

tirsdag, 24. april 2012

RTT: The journal Nature Climate Change contends that factors such as market policies or oil prices have comparatively little effect…

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Ready or Not: How Water-Ready is Your State?

onsdag, 11. april 2012

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NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…

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Drought hits 4 million hectares of China’s crops

fredag, 6. april 2012

(Reuters) – About 4 million hectares of crops are suffering from a severe drought in China that has hit 13…

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Drought could become a catastrophe for 13 million if action not taken in West and Central Africa, Oxfam warns

fredag, 9. marts 2012

Oxfam: Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a…

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Global Partnership for Oceans

fredag, 24. februar 2012

World Bank: A powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests are joining together under the…

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Global farmer leaders unite to address the challenge of climate change

onsdag, 22. februar 2012

IFAD: Representatives of farmers and rural producers from all over the world gathered at the Rome headquarters of the International…

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Detecting detrimental change in coral reefs

onsdag, 15. februar 2012

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NASA: Coral reefs are spectacular underwater ecosystems. However, they are deteriorating at an alarming rate, due mainly to human activity…

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The era of cheap water is over

søndag, 29. januar 2012

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Deloitte: The growing demand for water is making conservation and efficient use central issues, particularly as governments, utilities and the…

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How climate change, urbanization are changing disaster aid

torsdag, 26. januar 2012

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LONDON (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate…

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The future of food

søndag, 22. januar 2012

Guardian: How can we feed the 2.5 billion more people – an extra China and India – likely to be…

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Farmers Bet on Climate-Proof Crops

fredag, 6. januar 2012

(IPS) Bangladesh:  With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant…

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VIETNAM: From rice to shrimps and ginger – adapting to saltwater intrusion

onsdag, 28. december 2011

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(IRIN) – Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam’s fertile Mekong Delta are forcing farmers and development…

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Threat of malnutrition dire in Africa’s Sahel region due to increasing food shortages

lørdag, 17. december 2011

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UNICEF: It’s not a tsunami or an earthquake – it is a predictable emergency. UNICEF estimates more than a million…

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Water and climate change impacts and adaptation strategies

mandag, 28. november 2011

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UNFCC: Building on recent reviews on climate change impacts on freshwater resources and adaptation strategies, this technical paper analyses existing…

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Scarcity and degradation of land and water: growing threat to food security

mandag, 28. november 2011

FAO: Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number of key food production systems around…

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Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change

fredag, 18. november 2011

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CGIAR: Food systems must shift to better meet human needs and, in the long term, balance with planetary resources. This…

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Crisis grips North Korean rice bowl

lørdag, 15. oktober 2011

(AlertNet) – In a pediatric hospital in North Korea’s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All…

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Global Warming May Worsen Effects of El Niño, La Niña Events

lørdag, 15. oktober 2011

Climate Central: Climate scientists have been wrestling with the first question for a while now, and they still don’t really…

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Thai floods damage rice, threaten exports

torsdag, 13. oktober 2011

Oct 12 (Reuters) – Thailand’s worst floods in half a century have inundated farms and mills, squeezing rice supplies from…

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World hunger report 2011

mandag, 10. oktober 2011

FAO: This year’s report focuses on the costs of food price volatility, as well as the dangers and opportunities presented…

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Europe and United States import millions of hectares of virtual land

mandag, 10. oktober 2011

FOE: More than 60 per cent of land consumed in Europe is imported while US demand for imported land increased…

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Floods in Asia Will Lift Global Food Prices

søndag, 9. oktober 2011

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Ebeling Heffernan: About 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of paddy fields in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos have been…

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Too hot for chocolate?

lørdag, 1. oktober 2011

CIAT: Over half of the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa produced by smallholders in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, many of…

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Food Security and Climate Change: The True Cost of Carbon

torsdag, 29. september 2011

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Paul R. Epstein: With wheat prices surging as major producers are hit by droughts and other extreme weather events,…

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River basins could double food production

tirsdag, 27. september 2011

AlertNet – Major river basins in Africa, Asia and Latin America could sustainably double food production in some of the poorest…

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Mexico: Climate Change Drives Migration

lørdag, 17. september 2011

IPS: Tlapa, one of the poorest places in Mexico, is ravaged by deforestation, intermittent drought and torrential rains, so that…

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East Africa, Arab world face food crisis

lørdag, 10. september 2011

UPI: The main humanitarian focus is in East Africa, where the catastrophe sweeping the region has been a long time…

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Food is the ultimate security need

onsdag, 31. august 2011

Somalia, DR Congo top Maplecroft’s food security risk ranking

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A new study assessing the availability and stability of food supplies in 196…

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The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East

torsdag, 25. august 2011

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NESCI: The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East

Social unrest may reflect a variety of…

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Investing in Ecosystem Services Vital to Improving Food Security

mandag, 22. august 2011

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Nairobi/Stockholm, 22 August 2010 – Recognising healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources and stable food security can…

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Mapping and measuring water risk.

onsdag, 17. august 2011

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WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…

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Famine thresholds surpassed in three new areas of southern Somalia

torsdag, 4. august 2011

USAID: A humanitarian emergency persists across all other regions of southern Somalia, and tens of thousands of excess deaths have…

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Land grabs threaten food security

onsdag, 27. juli 2011

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By Christine Stebbins

CHICAGO, July 26 (Reuters) – Rich countries grabbing farmland in Africa to feed their growing populations can leave…

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Extreme Weather and Climate Change

mandag, 25. juli 2011

Scientific American published a three-part series authored by award-winning science journalist John Carey and commissioned by the Pew Center on Global…

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New analysis indicates that 2010/11 was one of the driest years in the eastern Horn since 1950/51

torsdag, 21. juli 2011

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FEWS NET/USGS has merged two historical rainfall data sets: interpolated rain gauge data from 1950‐2009 and satellite derived rainfall estimates…

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2011 Horn of Africa famine

torsdag, 21. juli 2011

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The 2011 Horn of Africa famine is a famine occurring in several regions in the Horn of Africa as a…

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SPECIAL COVERAGE: Horn of Africa hunger crisis

mandag, 18. juli 2011

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LONDON (AlertNet) – One of the most severe droughts in 60 years has hit more than 10 million people in…

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Horn of Africa

søndag, 10. juli 2011

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ActionAid: Poor rains in the last two wet seasons have led to severe drought across large parts of the Horn…

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Millions need urgent aid amidst drought, conflict and food crisis in the Horn of Africa

fredag, 8. juli 2011

VIDEO: 30 June 2011 – UNICEF’s Regional Emergency Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa, Robert McCarthy, dicsusses the food crisis…

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Millions risk hunger in Horn of Africa

torsdag, 7. juli 2011

AlertNet Video: More than ten million people face drought and starvation in the Horn of Africa region as aid agencies…

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Drought displaces Somalis

lørdag, 2. juli 2011

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A revolutionary climate?

fredag, 1. juli 2011

Uprisings in the Arab world this year remind us how extreme weather can help to create geopolitical chaos by raising…

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Annan warns hunger could become permanent disaster

mandag, 27. juni 2011

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25 June 2011, Rome – Kofi Annan, chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, has warned that…

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The New Geopolitics of Food

torsdag, 23. juni 2011

BY LESTER R. BROWN | MAY/JUNE 2011

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Welcome to the new food economics of 2011: Prices are climbing, but the impact…

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The Great Food Crisis of 2011

torsdag, 23. juni 2011

BY LESTER BROWN | JANUARY 10, 2011

As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the…

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When the Nile runs dry

onsdag, 22. juni 2011

A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries…

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Planet’s Soils Are Under Threat

onsdag, 22. juni 2011

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In some parts of the world, losses due to erosion are greatly outstripping the natural rate of soil formation; and…

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Signs of a global food crisis

onsdag, 22. juni 2011

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