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22/04/2021

Ocean Benefits Increasingly Undermined by Human Activity

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Greater understanding of the ocean is essential if the world is to recover better from the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve agreed targets on sustainable development and climate action, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 21 April 2021 said in launching a major study on what he called “the life support system of our planet.”

Coral Reef Image Bank/Michele Roux | A turtle swims in the ocean in Martinique in the Caribbean.

The second World Ocean Assessment (WOA II) is the work of hundreds of scientists from across the globe and follows an initial report published in 2015.

It warns that many benefits the ocean provides are increasingly being undermined by human actions, the UN chief said, describing the findings as alarming.

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22/04/2021

‘People Aren’t Starving, They Are Being Starved’: Humanitarian Agencies Issue Joint Call for Funds to Avert Famine

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By Peyvand Khorsandi*

International Council of Voluntary Agencies rallies Oxfam, Save the Children and 258 other organizations after World Food Programme’s warning on increasing levels of hunger

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Mozambique: Displaced people receive assistance in Mueda in Cabo Delgado having escaped the violence in Palma. Photo: WFP/Shelley Thakral

20 April 2021 (WFP)* — Humanitarian agencies around the world have joined forces to warn that rising hunger levels are going to lead to famines unless urgent action is taken. 

Oxfam, Save the Children and the International Red Cross are among 260 signatories to an open letter on famine prevention led by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA).

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22/04/2021

‘Our Planet Is at a Tipping Point’

A girl with a mask drawn with as a sky.
UN Environment organized a creative workshop in Quito in 2016 under the motto “Dreaming up the city we want to live in”. UNEP
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22/04/2021

When Mother Earth Sends Us a Message

Child planting a plant in a plastic bottle as a pot.

A young child participates in a plant workshop organized by UNDP Peru and FAO in Ayacucho, Peru. | PHOTO:UNDP Peru
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Climate change, man-made changes to nature as well as crimes that disrupt biodiversity, such as deforestation, land-use change, intensified agriculture and livestock production or the growing illegal wildlife trade, can increase contact and the transmission of infectious diseases from animals to humans (zoonotic diseases) like COVID-19.

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20/04/2021

Climate Change Indicators and Impacts Worsened in 2020

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2020 was one of three warmest years on record, despite cooling La Niña

State of the Global Climate 2020

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New York/Geneva, 19 April 2021 (WMO)* – Extreme weather combined with COVID-19 in a double blow for millions of people in 2020.

However, the pandemic-related economic slowdown failed to put a brake on climate change drivers and accelerating impacts, according to a new report compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and an extensive network of partners.

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20/04/2021

World on the Verge of Climate ‘Abyss’, as Temperature Rise Continues – UN Chief

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19 April 2021 (UN News)* — The Earth’s temperature continues to rise unabated, with 2020 being one of the three warmest years on record, as extreme weather events combine with the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting millions. 
WMO/Gonzalo Bertolotto | Icebergs in the Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica.
 
According to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) flagship State of the Global Climate report, the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial level.

That figure is “dangerously close” to the 1.5-degree Celsius limit advocated by scientists to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.

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20/04/2021

Another False Start in Africa Sold with Green Revolution Myths

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By Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram*

BOSTON and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 20 2021 (IPS)* – Since the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was launched in 2006, yields have barely risen, while rural poverty remains endemic, and would have increased more if not for out-migration.

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AGRA was started, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, to double yields and incomes for 30 million smallholder farm households while halving food insecurity by 2020.

There are no signs of significant productivity and income boosts from promoted commercial seeds and agrochemicals in AGRA’s 13 focus countries. Meanwhile, the number of undernourished in these nations increased by 30%!

When will we ever learn?
What went wrong? The continuing Indian farmer protests, despite the COVID-19 resurgence, highlight the problematic legacy of its Green Revolution (GR) in frustrating progress to sustainable food security.

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20/04/2021

Soils Are One of the Main Global Reservoirs of Biodiversity. They Host More Than 25% of World’s Supply of This Valued Resource from Where 95% of the Food We Eat Is Produced

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Giving a voice to soil organisms – our silent allies in the fight against hunger. FAO-hosted Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity kicks off

Photo: ©A. Odoul / FAOCloseup of worm culture. Worms are used to improve soil quality.

ROME, 20 April 2021 (FAO)* –– The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 19 April 2021 kicked off with a call to preserve this vast community of living soil organisms and the vital ecosystem services they provide.

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20/04/2021

Although They Represent the Greater Part of the World’s Cultural Diversity and Speak the Major Share of Its Languages, Indigenous People are Three Times More Likely to Live in Extreme Poverty

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(UN News)* — Although they represent the greater part of the world’s cultural diversity and speak the major share of its languages, indigenous people are three times more likely to live in extreme poverty, the UN chief told the opening session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Monday [19 April 2021]. 

El Origen Foundation | Indigenous students from the El Origen Foundation in La Guajira, Colombia.
 
And as their languages and cultures remain under constant threat, indigenous peoples have taken a major blow from the COVID-19 pandemic.  “An already vulnerable group risks being left even further behind”, warned Secretary-General António Guterres.

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19/04/2021

Latin America and the Caribbean “Are Truly a Pillar for World Food Security”

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Rome/Lima (FAO)*  – Latin America and the Caribbean “are truly a pillar for world food security,” QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on 16 April 2021 said in an address to more than 30 ministers from the region and North America.

Photo: ©FAO/Sandro Cespoli

Growing potatoes in Peru.

Addressing the Third Hemispheric Meeting of Ministers and Secretaries of Agriculture of the Americas, the Director-General hailed the region’s contribution to preventing the COVID-19 health crisis from becoming a food crisis. “Now you need to be the architects of recovery, a recovery with transformation,” he urged.

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