Sustainable development : environment, human

Tag: third world

Climate change and undernourishment : 25 million more children might be hit

by Yoann on Feb.23, 2010, under Ecology, Ecology thoughts, Humanitarian action, Humanitarian thoughts

Climate change could have terrible side effects… and leave another 25 million children malnourished by 2050, unless heafty investments in adaptive measures are made, says a major new report.

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Three-year-old Antonio, who has the weight of a 6-month-old baby, is being attended at a health center for malnourished children (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald)

An annual US$7 billion investment in agricultural productivity will be necessary to help farmers adapt and reduce (continue reading…)

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20 striking pictures of children in third world countries

by Yoann on Feb.05, 2010, under Humanitarian action, Traveling pictures

Pictures of children in third world countries… An efficient way to get aware that their way of living is definitely not ours… Unfortunately.

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