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[Oxfam Press Office] Oxfam and CARE call for fundamental changes in tackling global ...: The nature of food insecurity and vulnerability needs to be better understood in order to design more appropriate responses. Alternatives to emergency relief, including food aid, to be delivered when appropriate, for example cash for .
[Development News from Afghanistan] State Department Pushing Aerial Poppy Eradication in Afghanistan: “How would we react if we were already starving””one-quarter of all Afghan children will die before their fifth birthday””and a foreign army declared its intention to wipe out 70 percent of our economy?”
[News] How to Grow Your Career in a Recession: For some workers, the answer to recession vulnerability is a lateral shift into a recession-proof industry. Health care and education are perennially in demand, even in tough economic times. Here’s how to retrain for three in-demand ...
[The Shebeen] Highest Levels Of Political And Economic Uncertainty For A Decade: Looking ahead, Global Risks 2008 suggests that the drivers of global food insecurity - population growth, lifestyle changes, use of crops to manufacture bio-fuels, climate change - are likely to sharpen over the coming decade, setting the world for a potential long-term trend reversal in food prices and leading to a set of complex challenges to global equity.
[EthioBlog] Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia: Drought and Food Crisis ...: The March to May 2008 rainfall forecast released by IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) and partners during their 21st Climate Outlook Forum indicates an increased likelihood of near normal to below normal rainfall over much of the Greater Horn of Africa during the March to May 2008 season. There is currently a strong La Niña signal, which usually means drier than normal conditions in eastern parts of the Greater Horn of Africa (including most parts of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and eastern Tanzania) during this season.
[souldish (( high frequency culture ))] Rev Billy, Albert Hoffman, Sub Swara, Masquerade, DJ Spooky: We unhinge the confidence of development, exploit the insecurity of elected officals, capitalize on the hubris of privatizers. We drive the devil out of our talismanic, shamanistic and totally outrageous power-washing chakra generator Union Square Park…Join George Washington, Dorothy Day, Emma Goldman, Paul Robeson, and Lucy Parsons.
[Open Medicine Blog blogs] “A look at climate change, global health and development” by ...: The other side of the water picture is water stress which currently causes over 2 billion people to suffer disproportionately from malnutrition, infant mortality and diseases related to contaminated or insufficient water.7 Drought conditions are expected to worsen with climate change, and by 2020, between 75 and 250 million people in Africa will be exposed to an increase in water stress due to climate change.8 Widespread water shortages could generate mass migrations of displaced persons. Competition over scarce resources and conflict over water will be exacerbated by the combined stress of climate change and population growth.10
[My Blog] Poetry: Understanding help has not arrived to assuage the chaos of insecurity Surrendering to cheap categorization rather than pure intuition unimpeded by dollars Petitioning the monitor to release her pixie light into the heart of doubt .
[Stagecraft and Statecraft] The Challenge of Climate Change in Southern Asia Part II: The national security of no state can endure growing human insecurity. The impact of climate variability on society will mean change in the social-economic-political environments on which the security of individuals, communities and states rest.
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