Conflict
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November 16th 2012
The Great Africa Land Grab: Comment
Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, writes in The Ecologist. Land grabbing has fast become a major threat to poor communities in Africa, Asia and South America. Poverty-stricken... -
November 11th 2012
Full Planet, Empty Plates
The Earth Policy Institute has published on its website a list of facts which are taken from Lester Brown’s book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. With... -
October 16th 2012
Land grab in Africa threatens food security
The international aid agency Oxfam warns that more than 60 percent of investments in agricultural land by foreign investors between 2000 and 2010 were in countries where food security was... -
September 14th 2012
Kenya’s water wars kill scores
Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve... -
September 11th 2012
Growing population needs twenty more ‘Niles’
The world needs to find the equivalent of the flow of 20 Nile rivers by 2025 to grow enough food to feed a rising population and help avoid conflicts over... -
August 15th 2012
Disastrous US harvest will hit poor hardest
The burning of America's corn belt in the worst drought in half a century is bad news for the world's poor, bad news for food security, bad news for inflation... -
August 14th 2012
East Africa: Population growth worries UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) country representative, Janet Jackson is worried about the high population growth in the East African Community (EAC) region saying that this is a threat... -
July 22nd 2012
Record cereal prices stoke food crisis fears
Record cereal prices are prompting fears of escalating food costs around the world and drawing comparisons with the 2007-08 crisis, when food riots broke out across the globe. While the... -
June 26th 2012
Africa: Climate change drives people into harm’s way
A new report based on scores of personal testimonies from refugees in Eastern Africa finds that climate change can make people more vulnerable and can also play a part in... -
June 1st 2012
UN predicts more refugees in next decade
The United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday [31 May] that the world will see increasing numbers of refugees during the next 10 years as the factors causing mass population flight...
