'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
New FAO study urges smarter use of small pelagic species to bolster both food security and sustainable ecosystems
ROME 25 June, 2019 (FAO)* – Small freshwater fish around Africa offer a large and underrecognized opportunity to boost food and nutrition security, according to a new FAO working paper investigating an array of species and related livelihoods that too often are undervalued.
Climate change “threatens to undo the last 50 years” of development, global health and poverty reduction, a United Nations expert said on Tuesday [25 June 2019], citing the risk of a new era of “climate apartheid” where the rich buy their way out of rising heat and hunger.
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Many of the world’s 25 million refugees are confronted with the prospect of a life in limbo. They are unable to go back to their own country because of continued persecution or violence there. They do not have the option of becoming citizens in the state that has offered them asylum. And they are unable to move on to another country because they lack the passports and visas that would allow them to do so.
Nairobi/Victoria Falls, 25 June 2019 (UN Environment)* –– Community representatives participating in Africa’s first Wildlife Economy Summit this week in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, have called on African Governments, the private sector and international organizations to recognize the integral role of communities in the ownership, management and conservation of the natural resources that drive the continent’s wildlife economy.
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