Industrial fishing in the deep sea should be banned because it has depleted fish stocks that take longer to recover than other species, according to a paper to be released this week by an international team of marine scientists.
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UN officials say famine is widening in Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations announced Monday that Somalia’s famine had spread to a sixth area within the country, with officials warning that 750,000 people could die in the next few months unless aid efforts were scaled up.
Scanning 2.4 billion eyes, India tries to connect poor to growth
KALDARI, India — Ankaji Bhai Gangar, a 49-year-old subsistence farmer, stood in line in this remote village until, for the first time in his life, he squinted into the soft glow of a computer screen.
KENYA: Demo Hassan, “For 40 years, food aid has been routine”
The humanitarian response to Kenya’s current food crisis may be unusual in its scale and media attention but there is nothing new about food aid in northern Kenya, where lack of development, insecurity, population growth and recurrent drought have long combined to undermine self-sufficiency. Several million people there receive food aid as a matter of course. Demo Hassan, 66, a livestock trader in Garbatulla, gives voice to the dependency problem theory, the idea that such largesse feeds a vicious cycle.
Global land grab: Foreign investors are scooping up vast tracts of farmland in some of the world’s hungriest countries to grow crops for export
A 21st-century land rush is on. Driven by fear and lured by promises of high profits, foreign investors are scooping up vast tracts of farmland in some of the world’s hungriest countries to grow crops for export.
Poverty and government assistance not adequate for the needs fueling malnutrition in rural Kenya
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Conflict, government instablity, and famine
Somalia has had no functioning government since January 1991, when former President Siyad Barre was ousted.
Since then, fighting between warlords, government forces and various alliances of Islamist insurgents has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Somalis and displaced hundreds of thousands more.
Running out of water in northern Kenya: Amenia Abdalla waits in line six hours for 25 gallons of water which is expected to last 10 days for her family of eight
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya’s Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture.
Abdalla’s family lives on about 10 litres of water per day, far below the 20-50 litres per person per day recommended by the UN. She told IRIN/PlusNews about her daily struggle for water:
Fall in funding raises question mark over future of global fight against Aids: International financing for HIV programs in developing nations worldwide has fallen 10% (opinion)
International funding for Aids programmes in developing countries across the world dropped by 10% in 2010, according to a new report, raising concern that funding for the global fight against HIV and Aids may be on a long-term downward trend.
Afghan widows form community on Kabul hill
The hills of this capital stand as monuments to men in battle, topped by crumbling forts and rusted tanks, ancient ramparts and gleaming tombs of kings. One is different but no less a testament to war. It is known as Tapaye Zanabad — the hill that women built.
