Tag: Developing Nations - Page 4
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Close Gender Gap To Boost Food Security, UN Says
Proponents of the "Green Revolution" in the 1960s argued that the introduction of high-yield plants, irrigation systems, and artificial fertilizers and pesticides would allow
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Small-Scale Sustainable Agriculture Can Double Developing Nations' Food Production in 10 Years: UN
Both the United Nations and TreeHugger have been saying something like this for some time, so I won't go into every detail of the report, but here's the gist of what UN Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter just told the UN Rights Council about the
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Aveda and Global Greengrants Fund Increasing Access to Clean Water to Rural India
If you live in a rural area in the developing world, in a home where water doesn't flow through pipes and out of a faucet, you likely spend
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Would Millennium Consumption Goals Help Rich Nations Reduce Their Eco-Impact?
I'll assume you know what the Millennium Development Goals are and assume the same about how the 'developed' world consumes natural resources is grossly in excess of what is ecologically sustainable and equitably
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Indigenous Communities Fighting For Land Rights More Than Ever - Governments & Corporations Fighting Back
A new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has some good news and bad news. The good: recognition of land and resource rights for indigenous populations has been on the rise in recent years, but the bad:
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USAID's 'New Vision of Agriculture' Unsurprisingly Like the Old Vision of Industrial Monoculture
This should come to no surprise to anyone even casually familiar with how cosy ever recent US administration has been with Big Ag (and Monsanto in particular): GM Watch reports that at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland the director of USAID stood
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25 Ex-Circus Lions to Be Air Lifted from Bolivia to Colorado
In a series of rescue operations in the past few months, Animal Defenders International (ADI), an animal protection group, and Bolivian authorities have freed 25 lions from circuses throughout the South
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Using Coke Distribution Networks to Get Medicine to Rural Villages
ColaLife has a simple but smart idea: use the distribution networks already established for Coca Cola drinks, which are available in the most remote parts of the world, to get "social products" like oral rehydration salts
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What is the Role of ICT in Sustainable Development?
In 2000, at the United Nations' Millennium Summit a set of development goals were created with an aim to improve some of the most critical social, economic, and environmental issues in the developing world by 2015. The eight goals are: Goal 1:
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Rich Nations' Aid Fails to Help Poor Adapt to Climate Change
We know that the emission reductions pledges under the non-binding Copenhagen Accord will fail to keep
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More Developing Nations Adopting US-style Diet & Getting Fatter, Big Surprise...
Lest you think obesity is uniquely an American problem, or one of the wealthy nations of the world, a new study in The Lancet puts that misconception to rest. As the BBC reports, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil already
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Fertilizer Trees & Evergreen Agriculture Could Really Boost African Food Production
Report after report has detailed the high level of food security risk in Africa, a risk that's only likely to get worse in the coming
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World Growth International Slammed by Scientists For Being Front Group For Big Timber
This one's probably a bit insider-info for most TreeHugger readers, and I admit I'm partially to blame for it, but bear with me because it's if you care about rampant greenwashing and deforestation it's important: A group of prominent scientists has
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Steve Daniels on Remarkable Innovation in Kenya's Informal Economy (Podcast)
In the US, do-it-yourself culture is counter culture, a playful middle finger to the silos of cookie-cutter consumerism (just look at Maker Faire). But in Africa, nearly everyone's a DIY-er to some degree. Steve Daniels became fascinated with the Jua
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Bangladesh, India Ranked Most At Risk From Climate Change - Rich Nations' Risk Under-Estimated?
Some new risk analysis from Maplecroft ranks Bangladesh, India, Madagascar as the top three most at-risk nations for climate change. Nepal, Mozambique, the Philippines,
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Why the World Must Not Consider Nature 'Priceless'
If Mother Nature had a bank account, she would be one wealthy lady -- at least that's according to a report released today on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). In hopes of countering the notion that environmental systems are
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Despite Election Defeat, Brazil's Greens Rally Strong
While the results of Brazil's presidential election offered no decisive victory for any of the leading candidates, it is still being hailed as a resounding success for the nation's environmental movement. Despite being eliminated
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Marina Silva Wants to Be Brazil's Greenest President
On Sunday, nearly 136 million Brazilians will be heading to the polls to elect a new president, and for a country on the rise with such a wealth of natural beauty, there may be more at stake than just politics. Among the leading
