The Almost Impossible Concert
Rohingya Refugee Camps Turn to LPG, Reforestation to Save Depleted Bangladesh Forests
Cox’s Bazar, 31 May 2019 (IOM)* – Khair Hussein remembers when cooking a meal meant a back-breaking trek up a dirt slope to collect firewood from the nearby bush. He isn’t sure which was worse – the sweltering heat of the dry season, or the thick mud of the rainy season that made many paths impassable. As time went on, the bush receded and price of firewood from vendors doubled.

LPG is reducing demand for firewood in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps. Photo: IOM
‘Family Farms Represent over 90% of All Farms Globally, Produce 80% of World’s Food in Value Terms’ – UN Decade of Family Farming
Human Wrongs Watch
ROME (FAO)* – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on 29 May 2019 launched the United Nations’ Decade of Family Farming and a Global Action Plan to boost support for family farmers, particularly those in developing countries.
‘Support Parents to Give Their Children the Best Start in Life’ – UNICEF Urges on Global Day of Parents
Kicking off on Saturday [1 June 2019] the first-ever global Parenting Month, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is calling on world leaders to invest in family-friendly policies that support parents to give their children “the best start in life”.

