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At the beginning of the year, two of Ndzimandze’s grandchildren were bitten by Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes, one of the key vectors of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. The children showed all the usual symptoms of the disease, but when Ndzimandze brought them to the closest clinic they were misdiagnosed.
Nature-based solutions can protect our natural resources and provide a sustainable pathway to food security
Nature-based solutions can help address the planet’s water challenges and unearth sustainable alternatives to producing our food. ©Shutterstock.com/M2020
ROME (FAO)* — Multiple stresses on our natural resources are making it harder and harder to produce our food. Farmers and food producers are having to contend with a climate that is becoming more unpredictable by the day, along with the consequences it brings such as water scarcity and soil degradation, just to name a few.
1 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — “Security starts and relies with people” end of the story. After 10 years in IT Security, I’ve learned that security problems typically start with people, and almost nobody outside the traditional group of expertise seems to care about it.
Cybersecurity |Image from Wall Street International.December 2019 (OXFAM International)* — The climate crisis is already forcing millions of people from their land and homes, and putting many more at risk of displacement in the near future. Supercharged storms, more intense and prolonged droughts, floods, rising seas and other climate-fueled disasters such as cyclones or wildfires all worsen the lives of vulnerable people and increase the likelihood of being forced to move.
30 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — As the new year dawns, this is the perfect time to reset and rethink.
As you make your New Year’s resolutions, keep the environment in mind.
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The number of Haitians who do not have sufficient food to eat is expected to surpass four million next year, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday [27 December 2019]. (*).
Is the threat of terrorism real? Or is it like the barking of a dog driving a herd? The threat of catastrophic climate change is very real indeed. The threat to future global food security is real too.
John Scales Avery
Already 11 million children die every year from malnutrition and poverty-related causes.
The threat to human civilization and the biosphere posed by a possible Third World War is real.
The threat of exhaustion of non-renewable resources and economic collapse is real.
The dangers associated with our unstable fractional reserve banking system are also real. Beside these all too real threats to our future, the threat of terrorism is vanishingly small.
24 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — Growing at altitudes of up to 5,000 metres, polylepis forests, comprising 28 recognized shrub and tree species endemic to the mid- and high-elevation regions of the tropical Andes, are a significant origin of the flow of water into the headwaters of the Amazon.
Chinese art of divination (Image from Wall Street International).
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