Monthly Archives: June 2010

BETTER SEEDS AS PART OF UN EFFORT TO BOLSTER FOOD SECURITY (UNNews)

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

Read at : UNNews BURKINABÈ FARMERS RECEIVE BETTER SEEDS AS PART OF UN EFFORT TO BOLSTER FOOD SECURITY New York, Jun 25 2010 10:05AM The United Nations has begun providing quality seeds to 100,000 vulnerable farmers in Burkina Faso, one … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security

News from ILEIA

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

Read at : ILEIA e-bulletin In this issue • Out now: Farming Matters, Money for farming • Debate: Payment for Environmental Services • Learning AgriCultures: Cropping systems • Meet our editors in … Montpellier, France • We are reading … … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture

UNCCD : Alert No. 6

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

Alert No. 06/10/2010 14 – 25 June 2010 AWARENESS RAISING World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) Messages: The messages of Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, and Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD, are available online. Messages from other dignitaries can also … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

Share Best Practices in Sustainable Development (CSDi / IISD)

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

Read at : Sustainable Development Announcement List <sd-l@lists.iisd.ca> Share Best Practices in Sustainable Development at Online Professional Development Community CSDi’s ONLINE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY invites people active in development to share resources & collaborate online in developing sustainable, impact-oriented tools and … Continue reading →

Posted in sustainable development

Sustainable Development Projects (SD-L / IISD)

Posted on June 23, 2010 by

Read at : Sustainable Development Announcement List <sd-l@lists.iisd.ca> Online Course Announcement: Designing & Funding Sustainable Development Projects In an effort to make our training accessible to a larger international audience, we are inexpensively offering key courses—online—on adapting to climate change, … Continue reading →

Posted in sustainable development

KENYA: Kakuma camp cuts child malnutrition

Posted on June 22, 2010 by

Read at : IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89578 KENYA: Kakuma camp cuts child malnutrition NAIROBI, 22 June 2010 (IRIN) – Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed acute child malnutrition rates by doubling … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, malnutrition

BOOST AGROECOLOGICAL FARMING TO FEED WORLD AND SAVE CLIMATE (UNNews

Posted on June 22, 2010 by

Read at : UNNews BOOST AGROECOLOGICAL FARMING TO FEED WORLD AND SAVE CLIMATE, UN EXPERT SAYS New York, Jun 22 2010  6:05PM Agroecological farming, which improves food production and farmers’ incomes while at the same time protecting the soil, water … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security

SMALL-SCALE FARMERS CAN BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH AGRICULTURE INVESTORS (UNNews / IIED / FAO / IFAD)

Posted on June 22, 2010 by

Read at : UNNews SMALL-SCALE FARMERS CAN BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH AGRICULTURE INVESTORS – UN REPORT New York, Jun 22 2010  6:05PM Investments in agriculture in developing countries can be structured in a way that they become an alternative to … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, family farming, FAO, IFAD

UN: AGRICULTURE, ENERGY SECTORS TO DETERMINE SUSTAINABILITY OF 21ST CENTURY DEVELOPMENT (UNNews)

Posted on June 21, 2010 by

Read at : UNNews UN: AGRICULTURE, ENERGY SECTORS TO DETERMINE SUSTAINABILITY OF 21ST CENTURY DEVELOPMENT New York, Jun  2 2010 10:05AM How the world contends with the agriculture and energy sectors will serve as a bellwether for development in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate / climate change, energy/bioenergy/biofuels, sustainable development

RESTORING DAMAGED ECOSYSTEMS CAN GENERATE WEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT (UNNews)

Posted on June 21, 2010 by

Read at : UNNews RESTORING DAMAGED ECOSYSTEMS CAN GENERATE WEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT – UN REPORT New York, Jun  3 2010  3:05PM Repairing forests, lakes and other types of nature reserves that have been damaged or depleted can generate wealth, create … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, Ecology - environment, ecosystems