The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was called for by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000. Initiated in 2001, the objective of the MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
Biofuels starving our people
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, international organization, people, resource, society, solidarity, sustainability, tagged alan garcia, biofuel, bolivia, crisis, energy, enviroment, evo morales, food, hunger, peru, poverty, riot, rising price, UN on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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the Guardian, April 22 2008
“How important is life and how important are cars? So I say life first and cars second.”
In his UN speech, Morales [Bolivian president] called for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to take action against the biofuel industry “in order to avoid hunger and misery [...]
UN to cut food rations to Darfur
Posted in cooperation, international organization, media, ong, people, society, solidarity, tagged cereal, cereali, darfur, donation, food, guerra, petition, rations, rebel, sudan, war, WFP on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is to halve monthly rations to up to 3 million people in Darfur from May because of insecurity along the main supply routes.
At least 60 WFP-contracted trucks have been hijacked since December in Sudan’s western province, where government forces and rebel groups are continuing their [...]
How much biofuels contribute to higher food prices?
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, pace, peace, people, politic, resource, risorse, salute, security, sicurezza, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged alimentation, émeut, biocarburanti, biofuel, céréales, cereal, cereali, cibo, ethanol, faim, fame, FAO, food, pauvreté, prices, riot, rivolte, UN on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries [...] But now a reaction is building against policies in the United States and Europe to promote ethanol and similar fuels, [...]
World cereal reserves are depleted
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, health, international organization, ngo, ong, peace, people, resource, risorse, salute, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged africa, cereal, cereal reserve, cereali, cibo, clima, crop, famine, FAO, food, grano, mais, maize, report, rice, riso, scorte, UN, weather, wheat on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photo by Filipe Moreira via Flickr
11 April 2008, Rome – The cereal import bill of the world’s poorest countries is forecast to rise by 56 percent in 2007/2008. This comes after a significant increase of 37 percent in 2006/2007, FAO said today.
For low-income food-deficit countries in Africa, the cereal bill is projected to increase by [...]
People in Need Campaign 2007
Posted in advertising, cooperation, people, society, solidarity, tagged africa, campaign, emergency, food, help, need, ong, photo on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photographer: Carl Stolz
Source: Cordaid Mensen in Nood
FAO Hunger Map
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, health, international organization, ong, people, resource, risorse, salute, security, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged biofuel, emergency, FAO, food, hunger map on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
9 April 2008, New Delhi
Urgent measures required to reduce impact of high food prices on the poor.
“World food prices have risen 45 percent in the last nine months and there are serious shortages of rice, wheat and maize,” FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said.
A combination of factors, including reduced production due to climate change, historically low [...]
Free Rice
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, games, health, internet, ngo, ong, people, risorse, salute, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged food, free, free games, free rice, hunger, solidarity, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo sostenibile, UN, world food program on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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