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Click Here for PollOnline Surveys | Online Poll | Email MarketingView MicroPollAnswer: C) Despite rising incomes in countries such as China and India, poverty remains one of today's most pervasive global issues. Nearly one-half of the global population

A landmark report released by The Nature Conservancy has demonstrated that effective conservation measures - far from simply benefiting the local biota - can also help alleviate poverty. The study, co-authored by Nature Conservancy policy advisor

It is hardly a revelation, but according to Jacques Diouf, the director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), currently escalating food and energy prices could bring about political instability and riots in developing nations

It's not exactly on-message but it's addictive and it's for a good cause. FreeRice is a computer "game" that tests your vocabulary and for every word that you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations to end world hunger.

Last week's release of the "2008 World Development Report: Agriculture for Development" by the World Bank urged for a renewed attention and increasing funding for agriculture in developing countries if the fight to end global hunger, poverty and

Try this experiment. Go knock on someone’s door in West Oakland, Watts or Newark and say: ‘We gotta really big problem!’ They say: ‘We do? We do?’ ‘Yeah, we gotta really big problem!’ ‘We do? We do?’ ‘Yeah, we gotta save the polar bears! You may not

With a Nobel Peace Prize behind it, it’s back to business for the UN’s climate change watchdog IPCC and its head, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri – starting with today’s dire prediction that even with present efforts to curb global warming, sea levels could still

Recycling costs a lot of money, and traditionally the sale of the materials picked up didn't come close to covering the cost of picking up the goods. Then the boom times came to Asia and the price of scrap metal, paper and cardboard skyrocketed as it was

A recent study released by the UN shows that at least half of the 328 children tested while living near Dandora, one of Africa's largest dumps, currently have levels of lead in their bodies exceeding international limits. And that's not to mention

Above: Bhanwar Gopal, an artist from the Barefoot College, prepares traditional Rajasthani masks for plays and puppet shows with material from recycled World Bank reports. "We keep getting these reports that no one reads, so we decided to put them to

Percentages rarely hit home—they're statistics, not real people. But what would the planet look like if we reduced the entire population of Earth into a small community of 100 people, while maintaining the same proportions we have today? (Well, besides

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Photo credit: csaba_bajko The current world prices for coffee—set in New York and London—have fallen to their lowest ever level in real terms. As I write these lines, middlemen are paying peasants in Mexico around 44 cents for a kilogram of coffee that

There is a well-documented correlation between poverty and high birthrates. In little countries and big countries, capitalist countries and communist countries, Catholic countries and Moslem countries, Western countries and Eastern countries—in almost

With Labor Day behind us, here's a list of some of the legislation in Congress affecting workers and businesses:

It's time to write to Congress and ask: What's the cotton-picking idea? A substantial overhaul of American cotton subsidies in the 2007 Farm Bill could result in additional funds that could feed one million children for a year

Design for the Other 90%, on view at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum through September 23, 2007. Of the world's total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us

We've covered plenty of green-minded student initiatives on the pages of TreeHugger before. Whether it's Oregon students voting for an increase in fees to pay for carbon offsets, or Penn State students tackling issues of sustainability and poverty,