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A growing youth population needs fruitful employment; bringing digital innovations to food and agriculture has the potential to offer new services for youth and smallholder famers. ©FAO/Alioune Ndiaye
22 August 2018 (FAO)* – Youth around the world are increasingly turning away from agriculture. Traditionally requiring tough manual labour and offering low wages, agriculture does not often appeal to new generations who generally prefer to try their luck finding jobs in cities.
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22 August 2018 (Sputnik)* — Some of the thickest Arctic sea ice has begun breaking up, revealing open sea that is typically always frozen, indicating that Arctic ice may even more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought.
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© AP Photo / David Goldman | Photo from Sputnik. The minimum rate for pensions in Argentina only covers 40 percent of pensioners’ basic needs.
After last year’s pension reform the purchasing power of the lowest pensions has an accumulated regression of 8.58 percent. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
21 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — Argentina’s ombudsman for senior citizens, Eugenio Semino, said Monday [20 August 2018] that seven out of every ten senior citizens with a pension are unable to cover their basic expenses.
With the situation worsening according to Semino since the rate of pension increases currently lag behind rising inflation.
20 August 2018 (The Conversation)* – Awareness is rising worldwide about the scourge of ocean plastic pollution, from Earth Day 2018 events to the cover of National Geographic magazine. But few people realize that similar concentrations of plastic pollution are accumulating in lakes and rivers.
Debris pulled from a Lake Erie marina during a cleanup, June 9, 2012.NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, CC BY
One recent study found microplastic particles – fragments measuring less then five millimeters – in globally sourced tap water and beer brewed with water from the Great Lakes.
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