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					<title>Act before El Niño: Expert worries about deepening hunger in East and South Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/act-before-el-nino-expert-worries-about-deepening-hunger-in-east-and-south-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Oct 2026 19:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[David Akana]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Science, Development, Earth Science, Economics, Environment, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Health, Hunger, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Research, Science, Water, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern that involves unusually warm surface waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean can alter atmospheric circulation and significantly influence rainfall and temperatures patterns far beyond the ocean, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO, the United Nations’ weather agency, says this warming is already [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern that involves unusually warm surface waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean can alter atmospheric circulation and significantly influence rainfall and temperatures patterns far beyond the ocean, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO, the United Nations’ weather agency, says this warming is already underway and getting stronger. In an Oct. 8 update, it put the chance of an El Niño continuing through February 2027 at nearly 100%. It expects the event to be strongest in December. Regional forecasters predict a 90% chance of heavier-than-usual rain in southern Ethiopia, central to southern Somalia and northeastern Kenya between October and December 2026. Excessive rainfall could cause flooding, destroy crops, spread disease and make health services inaccessible in some areas, depending on local conditions and the season. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) map illustrates typical seasonal rainfall shifts associated with El Niño, rather than a specific forecast for 2026. Graphic courtesy of NOAA. Action Against Hunger, an international aid organization, says families in southern Madagascar are enduring food shortages earlier than usual following a season of poor harvests. Its teams are treating children for malnourishment, as households continue to endure worsening food insecurity. Cuts in aid are also making help to tackle malnourishment harder to obtain. The United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Aug. 21 that 205 health and nutrition facilities in Somalia had closed because of funding cuts, forcing families to travel farther to find care.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/act-before-el-nino-expert-worries-about-deepening-hunger-in-east-and-south-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-332647</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rising waters and mounting pressures collide on Kenya’s Lake Turkana</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rising-waters-and-mounting-pressures-collide-on-kenyas-lake-turkana/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rising-waters-and-mounting-pressures-collide-on-kenyas-lake-turkana/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 May 2026 08:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Christopher Clark]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Flooding, Food, food security, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Lakes, Overfishing, Poverty, and Regulations]]>
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							<![CDATA[KALOKOL, Kenya — Rake-thin with teeth stained a deep brown from decades of drinking untreated lake water high in fluoride, 62-year-old John Esirite sits in the shade outside the small office of Kalokol’s Beach Management Unit, or BMU, the community-run body that oversees local fisheries. “The old office used to be down there,” the fisherman [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KALOKOL, Kenya — Rake-thin with teeth stained a deep brown from decades of drinking untreated lake water high in fluoride, 62-year-old John Esirite sits in the shade outside the small office of Kalokol’s Beach Management Unit, or BMU, the community-run body that oversees local fisheries. “The old office used to be down there,” the fisherman says, pointing toward the western shoreline of Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake, just visible a couple of kilometers away. “But now it’s underwater.” Over the last 15 years, Lake Turkana has risen by about 8-10 meters (26-33 feet). That’s increased its surface area by around 10%. In and around the fishing hub of Kalokol, hundreds of people have been displaced by this steady advance. In Esirite’s case, the village where he grew up, Natole, has long since been abandoned. The fisherman has had to relocate three times since 2014, pushed ever farther from his ancestral land and the nearshore breeding grounds he has fished for most of his life. “We are suffering, but no one is helping us,” he says. “We can only pray to God for assistance.” But even the church where Esirite used to pray is underwater. What is happening in Kalokol is part of a wider trend. Since the early 2010s, many lakes across Kenya’s Rift Valley have flooded, their expansion accelerating after particularly heavy rains in 2020, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. But here, in this long-neglected northern corner of the country, the human and environmental&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rising-waters-and-mounting-pressures-collide-on-kenyas-lake-turkana/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Turkana has always adapted to change’: Interview with environmentalist Ikal Angelei</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/turkana-has-always-adapted-to-change-interview-with-environmentalist-ikal-angelei/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 May 2026 08:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Christopher Clark]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Flooding, Food, food security, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Lakes, Overfishing, Poverty, and Regulations]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often portrayed as a region in perpetual crisis due to climate change. But for the Indigenous groups who have lived here for centuries, environmental change is not new. Local livelihoods have long shifted between pastoralism, fishing, farming and trade as people adapt to a landscape defined by fluctuation. What [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often portrayed as a region in perpetual crisis due to climate change. But for the Indigenous groups who have lived here for centuries, environmental change is not new. Local livelihoods have long shifted between pastoralism, fishing, farming and trade as people adapt to a landscape defined by fluctuation. What has changed is the scale and intensity of pressures now converging on and around the lake — from increasingly erratic climate patterns and mounting strain on fisheries, to oil development, resource conflict, and the political decisions now shaping the lake’s future. In 2008, Ikal Angelei was working as a program coordinator at the Turkana Basin Institute, a pioneering research center focused on human origins and the environment, when she first heard from visiting scientists about a huge hydroelectric dam being built across the border in Ethiopia. Concerned about the Gibe III Dam’s potentially devastating impact downstream, on Lake Turkana and the communities that depend on it, Angelei founded a grassroots organization called Friends of Lake Turkana to amplify the voices of people who had been excluded from the consultation process and fight the project. In 2012, Angelei was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her advocacy. Her organization continues to work with and on behalf of communities within the greater Turkana Basin to demand collective social, economic, cultural, environmental and territorial justice. Mongabay spoke with Angelei about resilience, reductive narratives, and what Turkana’s history might reveal about its future. This interview has been lightly edited&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/turkana-has-always-adapted-to-change-interview-with-environmentalist-ikal-angelei/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In northern Kenya, a shifting Lake Turkana reshapes traditional livelihoods</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/in-northern-kenya-a-shifting-lake-turkana-reshapes-traditional-livelihoods/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Apr 2026 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Christopher Clark]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Flooding, Food, food security, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Lakes, Overfishing, Poverty, and Regulations]]>
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							<![CDATA[KOMOTE, Kenya — At sunrise on Komote Island, 36-year-old James Lekubo walks his two children down a rocky hillside to the water’s edge, where they clamber into a small fishing boat with a couple of dozen others to journey across a stretch of lake that didn’t exist a few years ago. On the other side [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KOMOTE, Kenya — At sunrise on Komote Island, 36-year-old James Lekubo walks his two children down a rocky hillside to the water’s edge, where they clamber into a small fishing boat with a couple of dozen others to journey across a stretch of lake that didn’t exist a few years ago. On the other side lie their school and the nearest clinic — services that were previously within walking distance. Lekubo is a member of the El Molo, Kenya’s smallest and most marginalized ethnic group, who have lived here along the stark eastern shores of Lake Turkana for centuries. But in more recent years, the world’s largest desert lake has begun to turn against them, threatening not only their traditional livelihood but the very fabric of their cultural identity. According to a 2021 report by Kenya’s environment ministry, over the preceding decade, Turkana’s water levels rose by several meters, expanding the lake’s total surface area by around 10%, largely due to heavier rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands that feed it via the Omo River. Since then, the lake has continued to grow, submerging up to 1,000 square kilometers (about 390 square miles) of the surrounding landscape — an area half the size of London — including roads, grazing land, ancient burial sites, and even entire villages. Primary school children getting off the boat that now ferries them to school. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay. Lekubo watched helplessly as Komote was gradually cut off from the mainland. “Most people left&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/in-northern-kenya-a-shifting-lake-turkana-reshapes-traditional-livelihoods/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/growing-trees-on-farms-boosts-nutrition-in-rural-malawi/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Sep 2025 13:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Malawi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroecology, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Food, food security, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Health, Hunger, Public Health, Subsistence Agriculture, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planting fruit trees on farms improves dietary quality, according to new research from Malawi that tracked nearly 1,000 households over 10 years. The study, published in Conservation Letters, found that families who had trees on their farms ate more fruits and vegetables than those without trees. The research examined data from 936 households across Malawi [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planting fruit trees on farms improves dietary quality, according to new research from Malawi that tracked nearly 1,000 households over 10 years. The study, published in Conservation Letters, found that families who had trees on their farms ate more fruits and vegetables than those without trees. The research examined data from 936 households across Malawi between 2010 and 2020, using surveys from the World Bank&#8217;s Living Standards Measurement Study. Families with trees on their farms had a 3% increase in vegetable consumption compared with those without trees. For every additional tree species a household owned, fruit consumption increased by 5%. While these percentages may seem modest, they represent meaningful progress given the extremely low baseline consumption levels. The World Health Organization recommends eating 400 grams (14 ounces, or five servings) of fruits and vegetables daily, but the study found rural Malawians averaged only 51 g (1.8 oz) of fruit per person each day. Many people in sub-Saharan Africa don&#8217;t eat enough fruits and vegetables. In Malawi, about 18% of the population is undernourished, and vitamin deficiencies are common. &#8220;These are small effect sizes, but the positive relationship demonstrates that having on-farm trees may improve fruit and vegetable consumption for rural smallholders,&#8221; Charlotte Hall, the study&#8217;s lead author and a lecturer at the University of Stirling in Scotland, told Mongabay. An important caveat of the study is that most households were surveyed during the dry season when fewer trees produced fruit. However, researchers &#8220;still found a relationship between having trees on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/growing-trees-on-farms-boosts-nutrition-in-rural-malawi/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-306090</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How will fisheries change in a hotter world? Experts share</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/how-will-fisheries-change-in-a-hotter-world-experts-share/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Aug 2025 20:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Claudia Geib]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Pacific Islands, and Pacific Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Hunger, Marine Protected Areas, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Overfishing, Poverty, Saltwater Fish, Tuna, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lake Chad is nearly 1,130 kilometers (700 miles) from the ocean, but Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor fears it is a preview of what’s ahead for African and other tropical fisheries. Straddling four countries on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, Lake Chad began drying up dramatically during a series of droughts in the 1970s and ‘80s. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lake Chad is nearly 1,130 kilometers (700 miles) from the ocean, but Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor fears it is a preview of what’s ahead for African and other tropical fisheries. Straddling four countries on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, Lake Chad began drying up dramatically during a series of droughts in the 1970s and ‘80s. While the lake stopped shrinking in the 1990s — and it appears to be stable or even growing over the last 20 years — many fishing communities on the lake never recovered. Facing poverty and starvation, some former fishers and their families live in U.N.-funded camps for displaced people, which are running out of aid. Some struck out for a new life in other countries. Others joined Boko Haram, an Islamic insurgency organization, in a final act of desperation. “Communities are no longer cohesive — it’s a total disaster,” says Okeke-Ogbuafor, a marine social scientist focusing on tropical African fisheries. “It’s not just about food poverty, it’s the erosion of community and cultural knowledge.” Fish provide essential protein for an estimated 3.2 billion people across the world. In some developing tropical countries, fish can make up some 70% of the diet. But over the next 50 years, warming waters are certain to upend fishing communities — and rewrite the rules of ecosystems and industries worldwide. Mongabay asked five experts how fisheries will change by 2075, and what solutions could help prevent the worst outcomes. Women in Sierra Leone selling fish at the market in Mama&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/how-will-fisheries-change-in-a-hotter-world-experts-share/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Encouraging signs from a no-fishing zone in Comoros could inspire others</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/encouraging-signs-from-a-no-fishing-zone-in-comoros-could-inspire-others/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Aug 2025 16:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Comoros, East Africa, and Indian Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Hunger, Islands, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Poverty, and Saltwater Fish]]>
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							<![CDATA[The phrase malezi mema in Comorian loosely translates to “parenting well.” A fishers’ group of the same name on the island of Anjouan in Comoros is trying to provide a nurturing environment. In their case, for marine life, by creating a small sanctuary in the sea that’s closed to fishing. Ansoya Ahmed, Malezi Mema’s president, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The phrase malezi mema in Comorian loosely translates to “parenting well.” A fishers’ group of the same name on the island of Anjouan in Comoros is trying to provide a nurturing environment. In their case, for marine life, by creating a small sanctuary in the sea that’s closed to fishing. Ansoya Ahmed, Malezi Mema’s president, told Mongabay during a call that he was inspired by no-take zones implemented in neighboring Mayotte, a French overseas department that’s also claimed by Comoros, and Madagascar. Comoros, an archipelagic nation off the eastern coast of Africa, lies at the mouth of the Mozambique Channel. All of its three main island groups are of volcanic origin and fringed by coral reefs. Scientists consider the reefs in this region some of the richest and most imperiled marine habitats in the world. Branched coral growing over other corals off of Le Galawa Beach in Comoros. Image by Derek Keats via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). About 80% of Anjouan’s coastline is ringed by reefs. In 2021, Malezi Mema set up the no-take zone (NTZ) on the reef flat in the island’s southwest corner with the support of nearly 60 fishers from three nearby villages and the nonprofit Dahari. The NTZ is a speck of ocean just 10 hectares (25 acres) in size, situated inside Shisiwani National Park off Sima Peninsula in western Anjouan. The park, established in 2022, is one of four marine protected areas (MPAs) in Comoros today. All of these MPAs allow some human activities, given&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/encouraging-signs-from-a-no-fishing-zone-in-comoros-could-inspire-others/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/a-forest-garden-project-attempts-to-expand-into-the-sahel/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jul 2025 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Kenya, Mali, Sahel, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Conservation, Crops, Degraded Lands, Drought, Dry Forests, Erosion, Extreme Weather, Farming, Food, Hunger, Land Use Change, Monocultures, Natural Resources, Plants, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Reforestation, Trees, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major challenges for the human population. According to environmentalists, one solution to this problem might be forest gardens. These “gardens” use regenerative agroforestry to revive patches of degraded agricultural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major challenges for the human population. According to environmentalists, one solution to this problem might be forest gardens. These “gardens” use regenerative agroforestry to revive patches of degraded agricultural land. In 2024, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) selected a project led by Trees for the Future (TREES), a U.S.-based NGO, as one of seven world restoration flagships for its “forest garden approach” used in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These flagships promote restoration projects around the world that show potential to tackle challenges at scale and provide financial support. “Forest gardens promote healthy soil and diverse crops, leading to increased income and access to healthier food,” Enoch Makobi, country director for TREES in Uganda, told Mongabay. “Farmers are fighting climate change and can overcome poverty and hunger.” While NGO leaders say they’re optimistic about the outcomes of the project so far and their plans for expansion, some other conservationists have expressed skepticism, pointing to a lack of scientific evidence on impacts and the difficulty international NGOs face in tackling local problems and needs. A forest garden is a modern term for an ancient agroforestry model that mixes shrubs, herbs, vines, fruit and nut trees, and perennial vegetables, with the aim of supplying communities with food, medicine and animal feed. According to scientists, forest gardens can have significant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/a-forest-garden-project-attempts-to-expand-into-the-sahel/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Why the Maxakali people are calling on their spirits to recover the Atlantic Forest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-the-maxakali-people-are-calling-on-their-spirits-to-recover-the-atlantic-forest/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Sep 2024 21:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation and Religion and Forest Restoration Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agroecology, Agroforestry, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Health, Hunger, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Planetary Health, Religions, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[MAXAKALI INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil — Instead of cattle, the Indigenous. And nothing else changes in the landscape as soon as one crosses the sign announcing the entrance to the Maxakali Indigenous Land. The rest is grass. Not even the tops of the hills escaped the brown covering that at one time dressed the ancestral territory [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MAXAKALI INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil — Instead of cattle, the Indigenous. And nothing else changes in the landscape as soon as one crosses the sign announcing the entrance to the Maxakali Indigenous Land. The rest is grass. Not even the tops of the hills escaped the brown covering that at one time dressed the ancestral territory of the Tikmũ’ũn and clung to it as scabs adhere to flesh. Every morning, the mist that slowly rises over the dead soil now seems to express the tragic visage of shrouds. When Joviano Maxakali asked me to go with him in search of embaúbas, I didn&#8217;t think we’d go so far: Two hours on the road among immense clumps of Guinea grass to reach a point well beyond the northern limits of the Indigenous land, where a piece of Atlantic Forest has survived the advance of pasture. There, where the embaúbas grow robust, and the spirit-people don’t go hungry. Tuthi, the fiber of the embaúba (Cecropia glaziovii), is the &#8220;mother fiber&#8221; of the Tikmũ’ũn, an enchanted tree with which the ancestors are said to have woven various magical objects, including the thread that once connected heaven and Earth and allowed people and spirits to transit between the two worlds. The Tikmũ’ũn say that this thread was cut one day and, to descend to Earth, the spirits had to become animals. The animals that now exist would then be the physical form in which deceased relatives present themselves to the living. So sacred is the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-the-maxakali-people-are-calling-on-their-spirits-to-recover-the-atlantic-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/herders-turn-to-fishing-in-the-desert-amid-drought-putting-pressure-on-fish-population/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Feb 2023 19:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kang-Chun Cheng]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering Climate Now]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Flooding, Food, food security, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Illegal Fishing, Lakes, Law, Law Enforcement, Overfishing, Poverty, Regulations, Water, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story was produced with the funding support of the Pulitzer Center. WEST TURKANA, KENYA—By late morning along Kaito beach on the western banks of Lake Turkana, the heat beating down from the sun is already deadly hot. A cluster of villagers, mostly women, flock around boats docked from an overnight fishing voyage. They’re engrossed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story was produced with the funding support of the Pulitzer Center. WEST TURKANA, KENYA—By late morning along Kaito beach on the western banks of Lake Turkana, the heat beating down from the sun is already deadly hot. A cluster of villagers, mostly women, flock around boats docked from an overnight fishing voyage. They’re engrossed in gutting and washing the catches as children and several litters of puppies splash about the shallow waters; young men sort through the near-translucent nets in preparation for the following day’s trip. But underneath the buzz of energy is some anxiety, tinged with gloom—today, the fish barely fill a few baskets. “This is all we got,” says one of the fishers, 24-year-old Teresa Ekutan. “It’s hardly enough to feed us all.” The catches have been sparse for a few weeks now, Lochampa Ekingol tells Mongabay. At 32, she lives in one of the few dozen akai akamatei (straw huts) a mere stone’s throw away from the lake with her seven children. In 2017, Ekingol opted to leave behind her life of herding and move from Lowarengak town—a two-hour walk on sandy roads in fierce heat—for closer proximity to the lake to take up fishing. In the face of the current severe drought putting millions of lives and livestock at risk in Kenya and the Horn of Africa, she and the fifty or so other villagers who came with her are part of a growing wave of pastoralists switching livelihoods to fish in the world’s largest&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/herders-turn-to-fishing-in-the-desert-amid-drought-putting-pressure-on-fish-population/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/a-world-of-hurt-2021-climate-disasters-raise-alarm-over-food-security/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2021 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Glenn SchererSue Branford]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering Climate Now, Covering the Commons, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, China, European Union, Global, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate Science, Conservation, Deforestation, Disasters, Diseases, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fires, Flooding, Food, Food Prices, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Livestock, Politics, Poverty, Water, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Record extreme weather in the U.S., Brazil, China and elsewhere is impacting food production this year, with the future expected to be far worse. Agriculture requires “transformational change” to meet the climate crisis, say experts.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In July, a video went viral on social media in Argentina showing people walking across what looks like a desert. But it isn’t a desert. This is the bed of the Paraná River, part of the second-largest river system in South America. Normally the stream rises in Brazil and reaches the sea via the River Plate, draining a vast watershed covering all of Paraguay, southern Brazil and northern Argentina. Normally the water volume flowing to the Atlantic roughly equals that of the Mississippi River. What’s happening now is not normal. The drying up of large stretches of river comes as the most severe drought since 1944 afflicts the region. No relief is expected in the short term. According to forecasts from Argentina’s Ministry of Public Works, the lack of rain will last for at least another three months. Besides damaging crops, the drought also means barge-hauled grains can’t get to market cheaply, forcing Argentina to support commodities transport with $10.4 million, and costing the nation&#8217;s grain farmers and exporters $315 million. It’s likely consumers will ultimately foot the bill. The Paraná region is experiencing “a veritable environmental holocaust,” says Rafael Colombo, a member of the Argentinian Association of Environmental Lawyers. The multiple causes, he states, include “a complex and diversified series of anthropomorphic interventions, associated with the expansion of agro-industrial, ranching, forest, river and mining extractivism over the last 50 years.” Add to that the impact of global human-caused climate change. Due to lack of rain at the source of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/a-world-of-hurt-2021-climate-disasters-raise-alarm-over-food-security/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Dusty winds exacerbate looming famine in Madagascar’s deep south</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/dusty-winds-exacerbate-looming-famine-in-madagascars-deep-south/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jan 2021 04:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rivonala Razafison]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation in Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Drought, Extreme Weather, Food, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Politics, Reforestation, Water, Water Scarcity, Weather, and Wind]]>
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							<![CDATA[ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — As drought pushes more than 1 million people toward famine in southern Madagascar, violent winds have been veiling the sky with dust and sand, at times blotting out the sun. The natural phenomenon is known locally as a tiomena: tio means “wind” in Malagasy and mena means “red.” It is complicating an [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — As drought pushes more than 1 million people toward famine in southern Madagascar, violent winds have been veiling the sky with dust and sand, at times blotting out the sun. The natural phenomenon is known locally as a tiomena: tio means “wind” in Malagasy and mena means “red.” It is complicating an already precarious situation. The U.N.’s World Food Programme has urgently requested $35 million to fund lifesaving food and cash distributions and malnutrition treatment programs. And on Jan. 18, the U.N. and the Malagasy government jointly launched a “flash appeal” for $75.9 million in international aid to improve access to food, water, and medical care for the 1.27 million people affected. People are fleeing the area and the government is struggling to cope with waves of migration reported as of early January. “In the area of Tanandava within Amboasary Atsimo district, all the residents have abandoned their village,” Tsimanova Nazaire Paubert, an entrepreneur and student of political anthropology based in Ambovombe, the capital of the Androy region that is the epicenter of the drought and winds, told Mongabay. “All their houses were buried in the sand raised by the tiomena.” A man during a dust or sand storm known as a tiomena in the Androy region of southern Madagascar. Image by Tsimanova Nazaire Paubert. A natural phenomenon  Tiomenas can occur almost anywhere in Madagascar when the wind blows intensely in arid, dusty areas. As a particularly dusty area with poor vegetation cover that is in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/dusty-winds-exacerbate-looming-famine-in-madagascars-deep-south/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/in-madagascars-hungry-south-drought-pushes-more-than-1-million-to-brink-of-famine/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Dec 2020 06:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation in Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Drought, Extreme Weather, Food, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aid agencies amass nutrition data diligently from the scorched south of Madagascar. But on the ground, the sale of kitchen utensils is a real red flag for aid workers — a signal of surrender to unrelenting days of hunger. Amid a global pandemic in this unheeded corner of Africa, people are struggling with the worst [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aid agencies amass nutrition data diligently from the scorched south of Madagascar. But on the ground, the sale of kitchen utensils is a real red flag for aid workers — a signal of surrender to unrelenting days of hunger. Amid a global pandemic in this unheeded corner of Africa, people are struggling with the worst drought in a decade. Gaston Manantana, head of the village of Talaky Bas in Tsihombe district. Image courtesy of Sedera Ramanitra/Catholic Relief Services. Water is a luxury most years. Prickly pear cacti (Opuntia spp.), a rare plant that can survive the aridity, is a food staple. Gaston Manantana, head of Talaky Bas village in Tsihombe district, told Catholic Relief Services (CRS) staff that his community is resigned to eating fruit from the spiky plant to keep pangs of hunger at bay. This year the cacti are a luxury too. &#8220;Most of the cactus have dried up. Can you imagine that even our usual coping method is short? To us, this year is probably the worst,&#8221; Manantana said. Elsewhere, there are reports of villagers eating clay to survive. Children with too little to eat and too-big bellies dying. According to one estimate, in the deep south, 1.35 million people, including 100,000 children under 5, could fall victim to malnutrition in the coming months. Source: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Disclaimer: The information shown on this map does not imply official recognition or endorsement of any physical and political boundaries. All national population figures are based on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/in-madagascars-hungry-south-drought-pushes-more-than-1-million-to-brink-of-famine/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness&#8217;: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/in-the-plantations-there-is-hunger-and-loneliness-the-cultural-dimensions-of-food-insecurity-in-papua-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jul 2020 07:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sophie Chao]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Papua, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[The article was co-published with The Gecko Project. A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation developments in Papua province, a region of savannahs and rich rainforests. A recent article published by Mongabay and The Gecko Project explores how corporate investors gained the rights to these projects and the fallout for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The article was co-published with The Gecko Project. A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation developments in Papua province, a region of savannahs and rich rainforests. A recent article published by Mongabay and The Gecko Project explores how corporate investors gained the rights to these projects and the fallout for local Indigenous populations. The investigation, done in collaboration with the Korean Center for Investigative Journalism-Newstapa and 101 East, Al Jazeera&#8217;s Asia-Pacific current affairs program, revealed that children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities were being exported from their ancestral lands. Sophie Chao, an anthropologist at the University of Sydney, has spent years studying how such developments have affected the Indigenous Marind people. In this commentary, she explores how the loss of traditional foods that comes with deforestation, driven by plantation companies, has brought about both hunger and began to sever a deep cultural connection between the Marind and the natural world. In late May 2018, I was invited to dine at the home of Barnabus Ndiken, a clan head from the Upper Bian region of Merauke, a district in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua. The centerpiece of the meal, I had been told, was a dish of deer, caught by Barnabus and his kinsmen (pseudonyms have been used throughout this article). With vast swaths of forest being felled to make way for oil palm plantations, game in and around their village had become increasingly rare. Several of their children had never tasted it, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/in-the-plantations-there-is-hunger-and-loneliness-the-cultural-dimensions-of-food-insecurity-in-papua-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Amazon poor go hungry as Brazil slashes social safety net, cuts forests: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/amazon-poor-go-hungry-as-brazil-slashes-social-safety-net-cuts-forests-study/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/amazon-poor-go-hungry-as-brazil-slashes-social-safety-net-cuts-forests-study/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Jun 2020 12:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Deforestation, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fish, Fisheries, Forest Destruction, Forests, Freshwater Fish, Governance, Green, Health, Hunger, Pandemics, Planetary Health, Public Health, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Rivers, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worsening Amazon floods with reduced fish catches, along with government policies that shred welfare programs and encourage deforestation, are increasing food insecurity in riverine communities.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ribeirinho man fishes on the Maues River in Amazonas state. In the highwater season, fish catch rates drop by 73%. That deficit, along with other causes, is resulting in episodes of hunger in riverine communities. Image by Luke Parry. Cash-poor riverine households in the Brazilian Amazon — once able to live sustainably from hunting and fishing — are going hungry as they struggle to catch enough fish to feed their families during the highwater season that runs yearly from roughly April to September, a recent study reveals. Hunger is intensifying due to many interacting factors: as COVID-19 assails the Amazon; Jair Bolsonaro’s government shreds once effective social welfare programs and cheerleads forest destruction; and climate change-driven extreme floods and droughts are on the upswing. Experts warn that these circumstances intensify threats to food security for the poor in remote riverine communities. “With a third of households skipping meals, and a sixth not eating for a whole day during [the highwater] season, food security can be classed as severe,” concluded the authors, who interviewed 556 households along 1,267 kilometers (787 miles) of river in the Brazilian states of Pará and Amazonas. The study is the first to show that food insecurity among Amazonian ribeirinhos — as riverside dwellers are called — is determined by seasonal crashes in fish catch rates in combination with social inequalities and the shredding of the social welfare safety net. Amazon fish and peccary liver cook over a beach fire. Image by Luke Parry. Lacking sufficient fish&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/amazon-poor-go-hungry-as-brazil-slashes-social-safety-net-cuts-forests-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/07/amid-epic-drought-villagers-bitter-over-zimbabwean-ethanol-plant/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/07/amid-epic-drought-villagers-bitter-over-zimbabwean-ethanol-plant/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Jul 2016 16:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andrew Mambondiyani]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Industry and People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Zimbabwe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Drought, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Ethanol, Farming, Food, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Hunger, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Politics, Poverty, Social Justice, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lyben Minyizeya’s homestead in Chisumbanje in eastern Zimbabwe resembles a dumpsite for disused tractors and other agricultural equipment. The broken and rusty machinery reminds him of the good old farming days. In this farming community near the border with Mozambique, it is sizzling hot in summer. Baobab, acacia, and mopani trees are sparsely scattered around [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lyben Minyizeya’s homestead in Chisumbanje in eastern Zimbabwe resembles a dumpsite for disused tractors and other agricultural equipment. The broken and rusty machinery reminds him of the good old farming days. In this farming community near the border with Mozambique, it is sizzling hot in summer. Baobab, acacia, and mopani trees are sparsely scattered around the area, part of Manicaland province’s lowveld grassland ecosystem. Until recently, Chisumbanje had thriving cotton and maize farms that sustained many households. During harvesting time each year trucks carrying bales of cotton shuttled between Chisumbanje and ginneries in the city of Mutare 230 kilometers to the north. But the cotton trucks have been replaced by trucks ferrying sugarcane and ethanol, and some of the cotton fields have been turned into sugarcane plantations to feed a giant ethanol plant that became operational in 2011. Since then the livelihood of local people, already thin, has become dire. Community members offer a litany of complaints against Green Fuel, the company that owns the plant. They say the company has grabbed land and displaced families without compensation, polluted water supplies, impounded livestock, and failed to pay its workers. Things have gotten so bad, they allege, that some women have been forced to exchange sex for access to land. The villagers’ plight has been worsened by the current El Niño-induced drought wreaking havoc on the country, which has killed most of their livestock, wiping out their main remaining source of income. “I lost my land to Green Fuel. And my&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/07/amid-epic-drought-villagers-bitter-over-zimbabwean-ethanol-plant/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Massive profiteering uncovered in Indonesian fertilizer distribution</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/massive-profiteering-uncovered-in-indonesian-fertilizer-distribution/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Feb 2016 02:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Jokowi Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Corruption, Environment, Farming, Fertilizers, Food, Food Industry, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Human Rights, Hunger, Law Enforcement, Organized Crime, Palm Oil, Plantations, Poverty, Rubber, and Subsidies]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian government investigators have uncovered widespread profiteering by state-backed retailers, who are selling millions of dollars worth of subsidized fertilizers meant for small farmers to big plantations. Nearly a third of subsidized fertilizers were misallocated in some parts of the country last year, according to a yet-to-be-published government report seen by Reuters, the news agency reports. It was [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian government investigators have uncovered widespread profiteering by state-backed retailers, who are selling millions of dollars worth of subsidized fertilizers meant for small farmers to big plantations. Nearly a third of subsidized fertilizers were misallocated in some parts of the country last year, according to a yet-to-be-published government report seen by Reuters, the news agency reports. It was not clear which arm of government conducted the report, but two officials at the agriculture ministry told Reuters they had not heard of any problems in distribution this year. &#8220;If it happens, please report it as soon as possible and if possible please report where it happened and when,&#8221; said Hasil Sembiring, the ministry&#8217;s director general of food crops. Suwandi, the ministry&#8217;s head of the information and data, said, &#8220;In 2015, there were 40 cases processed by law enforcement. It is better now. Before farmers were complaining about fertilizer scarcity, now not as much.&#8221; Terraced rice and banana agriculture in Java. Photo by Rhett A. Butler An oil palm plantation in Indonesia&#8217;s Riau province. Photo by Rhett A. Butler The revelations come at a time when small farmers are struggling across the archipelago, with the prices of commodities like palm oil and rubber in free fall. Many farmers in Sumatra and Kalimantan also saw their crops incinerated during last year&#8217;s fire and haze crisis. A shortage of cheap fertilizers has presented another obstacle — one allegedly aggravated by the state-backed retailers&#8217; practices. &#8220;We are only getting about half of our subsidized fertilizer,&#8221; farmer Setyarman told Reuters at his home&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/massive-profiteering-uncovered-in-indonesian-fertilizer-distribution/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-180760</doi>				</item>
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					<title>To improve food security, look to the forests, new report says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/to-improve-food-security-look-to-the-forests-new-report-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 May 2015 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Borneo, Global, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroforestry, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Environment, Food, Food Vs Forests Debate, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, and Hunger]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cashew nuts grow in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by: P.J. Stephenson. Forests could help alleviate global hunger, according to a new report released Wednesday during the United Nations Forum on Forests in New York. It&#8217;s a bold claim, and the report, published by the International Union of Forest Research [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cashew nuts grow in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by: P.J. Stephenson. Forests could help alleviate global hunger, according to a new report released Wednesday during the United Nations Forum on Forests in New York. It&#8217;s a bold claim, and the report, published by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), doesn&#8217;t shy away from the enormity of the problem it seeks to address. Some 805 million people — one in nine citizens of Earth — are undernourished, primarily in Africa and Asia. At the same time, between 1.2 and 1.5 billion people worldwide depend on forests for all or most of their diet and livelihood, according to the report. This suggests that if countries with big forest-dependent populations adopt national policies and land-use strategies that support the planting of multi-functional trees to provide food, timber, fuel wood, medicine, and a host of environmental services, they could do much to ensure access to safe, nutritious food for all. However, the report does not quantify forests&#8217; current or potential contribution to food security. Even as the benefits of forest-based food production are becoming better known, the limitations of conventional agriculture in alleviating global hunger for a growing human population are becoming clear. The report cites research from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization showing that conventional agriculture tends to result in an unbalanced diet lacking nutritional diversity, exposes the poor to volatile food prices, and has long-term ecological consequences. But forests and tree-based farming systems&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/to-improve-food-security-look-to-the-forests-new-report-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Pollinator collapse could lead to a rise in malnutrition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/02/pollinator-collapse-could-lead-to-a-rise-in-malnutrition/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Feb 2015 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bees, Biodiversity, Butterflies, Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Environmental Services, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, Insects, Invertebrates, Pollinators, and Poverty]]>
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							<![CDATA[A bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) covered in pollen. Photo by: P7r7/Creative Commons 3.0 Saving the world&#8217;s pollinators may be a public health issue, according to recent research from Harvard and the University of Vermont. Scientists have long believed that pollinators are important for human nutrition, but this is first time they have tested the hypothesis. What [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) covered in pollen. Photo by: P7r7/Creative Commons 3.0 Saving the world&#8217;s pollinators may be a public health issue, according to recent research from Harvard and the University of Vermont. Scientists have long believed that pollinators are important for human nutrition, but this is first time they have tested the hypothesis. What they found is disturbing: pollinator collapse could increase nutrient deficiency across local populations by a up to 56 percent in four developing counties, with Vitamin A the most vulnerable to pollinator decline. &#8220;Populations of both managed and wild pollinators are declining around the globe, and the importance of pollinators to farm productivity and economics is increasingly clear,&#8221; the researchers write in the open-access paper in PLOS ONE. By pollinating a huge number of important crops, the world&#8217;s pollinators&#8212;like bees, butterflies, wasps and others&#8212;play an outsized role in global food production and nutrient production. As the researchers write, &#8220;recent studies have estimated that pollinators are responsible for up to 40 percent of the world&#8217;s supply of nutrients.&#8221; In order to test the belief that declining pollinators will impact rates of malnutrition, the researchers began by studying the intake of five important nutrients&#8212;vitamin A, zinc, iron, folate, and calcium&#8212;in young children and women in Zambia, Bangladesh, Uganda, and Mozambique. Meticulously interviewing families about their eating habits over 24 hours, the researchers were able to estimate how much people in these developing countries depend on pollinators for each nutrient. The researchers found that while results varied across countries,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/02/pollinator-collapse-could-lead-to-a-rise-in-malnutrition/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Poor rains then floods lead to food crisis in Somalia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/poor-rains-then-floods-lead-to-food-crisis-in-somalia/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2014 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Hunger, and Impact Of Climate Change]]>
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							<![CDATA[A girl stands in front of freshly dug graves in Dadaab, Kenya. The town was one of the places Somali refuges fled to during the 2011 famine, but many didn&#8217;t make it. Most of the dead were children. Photo by: Andy Hall/Oxfam East Africa/Creative Commons 2.0. Four years after over a quarter of a million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A girl stands in front of freshly dug graves in Dadaab, Kenya. The town was one of the places Somali refuges fled to during the 2011 famine, but many didn&#8217;t make it. Most of the dead were children. Photo by: Andy Hall/Oxfam East Africa/Creative Commons 2.0. Four years after over a quarter of a million people perished in a famine in Somalia, the East African country is again on the verge of a possible humanitarian disaster. Flooding in southern Somalia, following months of little rain, has just exacerbated an already-precarious situation according to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The group is calling for $49 million to provide emergency funding to programs already in place to stem the crisis. &#8220;We have a small and critical window of opportunity&#8212;we must seize it now if we want to avoid going the same way as four years ago,&#8221; said Luca Alinovi, the acting Head of Office at the FAO Somalia. In all, the United Nations estimate that a million people in Somalia are in need of assistance. The group also reports that 218,000 children in the country under five are already acutely malnourished. &#8220;If we&#8217;ve learned anything from the devastation of the 2011 famine, it&#8217;s that early warning signs must lead to immediate action,&#8221; said Bukar Tijani, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa. &#8220;We know from experience that quick responses to early warnings are crucial to prevent disaster and are less costly than emergency responses to full-blown humanitarian crisis.&#8221; Experts fear&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/poor-rains-then-floods-lead-to-food-crisis-in-somalia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>From triumph to tragedy: famine could hit world&#8217;s newest country by August</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/from-triumph-to-tragedy-famine-could-hit-worlds-newest-country-by-august/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2014 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and South Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Environment, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, Poverty, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[South Sudan at risk of imminent famine Suffering from a six month civil war, the world&#8217;s youngest country could begin experiencing famine conditions in the next few weeks, according to an analysis from a group of British aid agencies. The UN has been warning for months that South Sudan&#8212;which was only established in 2011&#8212;faces a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[South Sudan at risk of imminent famine Suffering from a six month civil war, the world&#8217;s youngest country could begin experiencing famine conditions in the next few weeks, according to an analysis from a group of British aid agencies. The UN has been warning for months that South Sudan&#8212;which was only established in 2011&#8212;faces a worsening food crisis in the midst of internecine fighting, yet aid has been slow in coming. Now, the Disasters Emergency Committee&#8212;a coalition of 13 well known NGOs&#8212;along with IPC Partners have announced that 3.8 million people in the country could &#8216;crisis&#8217; or &#8217;emergency&#8217; food insecurity by August if more funds aren&#8217;t pledged. &#8220;We are gravely concerned that millions of people are facing an extreme food crisis in South Sudan this summer and there is a very real risk of famine in some areas,&#8221; said DEC Chief Executive Saleh Saeed. The UN estimates that give million people in the country are in need of emergency assistance and that 50,000 children could perish from malnutrition. It has asked for $1.8 billion to help stem the food crisis, yet by mid-June only around $730 million had been pledged. A South Sudanese girl at independence festivities in 2011. Photo by: Jonathan Morgenstein/USAID. When the country split from Sudan nearly three years ago, its creation was met with much fanfare and widespread media coverage, yet the news of the country&#8217;s current woes have been less publicized. &#8220;Public awareness of the crisis in the UK remains very low, making a successful&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/from-triumph-to-tragedy-famine-could-hit-worlds-newest-country-by-august/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24974</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Somalia could face another famine due to delayed rains, insecurity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/05/somalia-could-face-another-famine-due-to-delayed-rains-insecurity/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2014 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nearly a million people are in need of immediate food assistance in Somalia, where delayed rains, high food prices, and insecurity threaten a repeat of the 2011 famine that left 258,000 people dead. According to the UN&#8217;s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), 857,000 Somalis need immediate assistance while over 200,000 children under five [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearly a million people are in need of immediate food assistance in Somalia, where delayed rains, high food prices, and insecurity threaten a repeat of the 2011 famine that left 258,000 people dead. According to the UN&#8217;s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), 857,000 Somalis need immediate assistance while over 200,000 children under five in the country are currently suffering from acute malnourishment. &#8220;The month of May remains critical during which, if rains fail, combined with sustained insecurity, we might see new levels of crisis unfold especially in southern parts of Somalia and the mainly pastoral northeast,&#8221; Daniel Molla, the Chief Technical Advisor of FSANU, said. Rains in April were far below normal in the country&#8217;s north, which &#8220;has led to early depletion of fresh water sources for human and animal consumption,&#8221; according to a release from the FSNAU. &#8220;The two major rivers that support irrigated agriculture, the Juba and Shabelle, are currently below their normal levels for this time of the year and one meter lower compared to the levels of last year.&#8221; A girl stands in front of freshly dug graves in Dadaab, Kenya. The town was one of the places Somali refuges fled to during the 2011 famine, but many didn&#8217;t make it. Most of the dead were children. Photo by: Andy Hall/Oxfam East Africa/Creative Commons 2.0. The situation is also exacerbated by an increasing battle against al-Shabab insurgents, who have blocked trade into some areas where they&#8217;ve been pushed out by Somali government troops. &#8220;For&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/05/somalia-could-face-another-famine-due-to-delayed-rains-insecurity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25285</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Apocalypse now? Climate change already damaging agriculture, acidifying seas, and worsening extreme weather</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/apocalypse-now-climate-change-already-damaging-agriculture-acidifying-seas-and-worsening-extreme-weather/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Mar 2014 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Science, Disasters, Economics, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Governance, Green, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Politics, Poverty, Science, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[It&#8217;s not just melting glaciers and bizarrely-early Springs anymore; climate change is impacting every facet of human civilization from our ability to grow enough crops to our ability to get along with each other, according to a new 2,300-page report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The massive report, from the Nobel Prize-winning [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It&#8217;s not just melting glaciers and bizarrely-early Springs anymore; climate change is impacting every facet of human civilization from our ability to grow enough crops to our ability to get along with each other, according to a new 2,300-page report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The massive report, from the Nobel Prize-winning body, states definitively that climate change is already affecting human societies on every continent, including decreasing agricultural output, worsening access to freshwater, exacerbating extreme weather, acidifying the oceans, and adding to the risk of internecine conflict. &#8220;Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change,&#8221; said Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC, at a press conference. This IPCC report&#8212;focused on the impacts of climate change&#8212;is the second in a series of documents published by the group recently. For those familiar with climate science and recent research, the report&#8217;s findings are not particularly surprising, yet they offer a stark aggregation of climate-related findings over the last decade, some of which have been little reported in the media. The report is particularly noteworthy for strong warnings on climate change&#8217;s impact on global agriculture, which is already struggling against a rapidly rising human population. Child in Namibia. The new IPCC report focuses on the increasingly human costs of climate change, which the scientists say will hurt the world&#8217;s poor&#8212;and those that have contributed least to the problem&#8212;the most. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. &#8220;Production of wheat and maize globally and in many&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/apocalypse-now-climate-change-already-damaging-agriculture-acidifying-seas-and-worsening-extreme-weather/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25457</doi>				</item>
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					<title>20 million people face hunger in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/02/20-million-people-face-hunger-in-africas-sahel-region/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Feb 2014 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Sahel]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, and Population]]>
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							<![CDATA[The UN and partner humanitarian groups today called on the international community to spend $2 billion to avoid a famine in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region, which includes nine nations along the southern edge of the Sahara. Although the Sahel is chronically prone to food insecurity, the situation has dramatically worsened as the UN estimates 20 million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The UN and partner humanitarian groups today called on the international community to spend $2 billion to avoid a famine in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region, which includes nine nations along the southern edge of the Sahara. Although the Sahel is chronically prone to food insecurity, the situation has dramatically worsened as the UN estimates 20 million people are at risk of hunger up from 11 million last year. &#8220;This year is make or break for the Sahel,&#8221; Robert Piper, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, told Reuters. &#8220;It&#8217;s the year we see if we can translate theory into practice and start bringing aid workers together to work with national governments and reverse these trends that have been deteriorating year after year.&#8221; The figures are grim. The UN estimates that 5 million children under five currently suffer from malnutrition, while 2.5 million people in the region require immediate food assistance to avoid starvation. A semi-arid region with deep poverty and little infrastructure, the Sahel has faced repeated food crises. However, the situation has been hugely exacerbated by conflict in several countries, including Mali, Nigeria, Sudan and the Central African Republic. According to the UN these conflicts have led to approximately 1.2 million refugees in the region, putting additional strain on food sources and undercutting local agriculture output. A farmer collecting millet in Koremairwa village in the Dosso department of Niger. Photo by: USDA. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) further warns that population growth is surpassing the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/02/20-million-people-face-hunger-in-africas-sahel-region/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25747</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Worst drought in 30 years threatens millions in southern Africa with food insecurity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/worst-drought-in-30-years-threatens-millions-in-southern-africa-with-food-insecurity/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Aug 2013 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Angola, Namibia, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Disasters, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, and Poverty]]>
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							<![CDATA[Around 2 million people face food insecurity in northern Namibia and southern Angola as the worst regional drought in decades takes its toll, according to the UN. Two years of failed rains have pushed families into desperate conditions in a region already known for its desert-like conditions. In Namibia alone, experts estimate that over 100,000 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Around 2 million people face food insecurity in northern Namibia and southern Angola as the worst regional drought in decades takes its toll, according to the UN. Two years of failed rains have pushed families into desperate conditions in a region already known for its desert-like conditions. In Namibia alone, experts estimate that over 100,000 children under five are at risk for acute malnutrition. &#8220;Climate change and environmental pressure are making life increasingly difficult for the poorest and most marginalized in remote communities, where daily life is already very challenging for children. Food and water shortages now increase the likelihood of disease and malnutrition,&#8221; says Steven Allen, Regional Director for UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa. &#8220;Reports from the field already indicate that children are dropping out of school and are being separated from their parents, a clear sign of the stress and vulnerability families face as they try to cope with the drought.&#8221; Scientists say climate change will worsen extreme weather, such as droughts, worldwide, perhaps even making parts of the world virtually uninhabitable. However, currently, the regional impacts remain more difficult to assess. Still, many in southern Africa see decades of below average precipitation combined with failed rains as indicative of a warming planet. When declaring a state of emergency in May, the President of Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba, noted the impacts of climate change. &#8220;Humanity must find ways and means of mitigating its effect,&#8221; he said as reported by the Associated Press. Many people in the region make their&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/worst-drought-in-30-years-threatens-millions-in-southern-africa-with-food-insecurity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26511</doi>				</item>
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					<title>&#8216;Suffering&#8230;without witnesses&#8217;: over a quarter of a million people perished in Somali famine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/05/suffering-without-witnesses-over-a-quarter-of-a-million-people-perished-in-somali-famine/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 May 2013 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Conflict, Development, Drought, Environment, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Poverty, War, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report estimates that 258,000 people died in 2011 during a famine in Somalia, the worst of such events in 25 years and a number at least double the highest estimations during the crisis. Over half of the victims, around 133,000, were children five and under. The report, by the UN Food and Agricultural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report estimates that 258,000 people died in 2011 during a famine in Somalia, the worst of such events in 25 years and a number at least double the highest estimations during the crisis. Over half of the victims, around 133,000, were children five and under. The report, by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), argues that the international community reacted too late and too little to stem the mass starvation brought on by government instability, conflict, high food prices, and failed rains, the last of which has been linked to climate change by some scientists. &#8220;The suffering played out like a drama without witnesses,&#8221; said Philippe Lazzarini, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, said as the report was released, adding &#8220;we could have done more before famine was declared on 20 July 2011&#8230;warnings that began as far back as the drought in 2010 did not trigger sufficient early action. In the worst affected areas, access to people in need was tremendously difficult.&#8221; The crisis, which lasted from October 2010 to April 2012, killed 4.6 percent of the total population in Southern and Central Somalia. Ten percent of children in these regions perished. In Lower Shabelle, 18 percent of children under five died. &#8220;There is consensus that the humanitarian response to the famine was mostly late and insufficient, and that limited access to most of the affected population, resulting from widespread insecurity and operating restrictions imposed on several relief agencies, was a major constraint,&#8221; the report reads. Between May&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/05/suffering-without-witnesses-over-a-quarter-of-a-million-people-perished-in-somali-famine/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29070</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Up for grabs: how foreign investments are redistributing land and water across the globe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/up-for-grabs-how-foreign-investments-are-redistributing-land-and-water-across-the-globe/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Apr 2013 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Erica Santana]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2007, the increased human population, increased prices in fuel and transportation costs, and an increased demand for a diversity of food products prompted a Global Food Crisis. Agricultural producers and government leaders world-wide struggled to procure stable food sources for their countries. But the crisis had impacts beyond 2007: it was also the impetus [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2007, the increased human population, increased prices in fuel and transportation costs, and an increased demand for a diversity of food products prompted a Global Food Crisis. Agricultural producers and government leaders world-wide struggled to procure stable food sources for their countries. But the crisis had impacts beyond 2007: it was also the impetus for what we now know as the global land-grabbing phenomenon. &#8220;Land grabbing&#8221; involves capital-rich countries investing in land and subsequent agricultural operations in foreign countries. These countries tend to be developing nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, which are rich in natural resources, but poor in capital and eager for opportunities to generate economic stimulation. In addition to providing new land areas for countries with a limited amount of arable land, land grabbing also diversifies and strengthens a country&#8217;s agricultural production. It&#8217;s a foreign insurance policy against pests, natural disasters, drought, and unpredictable events. In some instances, countries invest in foreign lands because the cost of agricultural production is high in their own countries, for example inflated fuel prices and water scarcity limit many in-country markets. In addition, private investors are also grabbing land to outsource food production for profit by producing cash crops and biofuels for export. According to a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Maria Cristina Rulli with the Polytechnic University of Milan and colleagues, there are an estimated 62 &#8216;grabbed countries&#8217; and 41 &#8216;grabbers,&#8217; with the Middle East, South America, Europe, and Southeast Asia&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/up-for-grabs-how-foreign-investments-are-redistributing-land-and-water-across-the-globe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29174</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New pope: &#8216;let us be protectors of creation&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/03/new-pope-let-us-be-protectors-of-creation/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Mar 2013 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation and Religion]]>
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							<![CDATA[Pope Francis I. Photo by: Casa Rosada. In his first homily as the new pope, Francis I spoke of the need to act as protectors both for the environment as well as for the poor and weak. With his focus on the environment the new pope echoes both his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Pope Francis I. Photo by: Casa Rosada. In his first homily as the new pope, Francis I spoke of the need to act as protectors both for the environment as well as for the poor and weak. With his focus on the environment the new pope echoes both his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, as well as the previous pope, Benedict XVI who championed environmental causes from climate change to biodiversity as crucial to the Catholic religion. &#8220;Please, I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be &#8216;protectors&#8217; of creation, protectors of God&#8217;s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment,&#8221; Pope Francis I said during his homily at his first mass in St. Peter&#8217;s Square. It was estimated that 20,000 people attended. Pope Francis I has been said to set a new tone in the Vatican already by employing a simpler, less ornate style. The new pope, perviously Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected on February 28th is the first to come from the Americas (Argentina), the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first Jesuit. Bergoglio was elected after Pope Benedict XVI resigned from his post due to failing health and old age, the first pope to do so in nearly 600 years. Although little reported, Pope Benedict XVI pushed for a new focus on environmental issues in the Catholic Church, often linking environmental degradation to western&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/03/new-pope-let-us-be-protectors-of-creation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Hurricane Sandy pushes Haiti toward full-blown food crisis</title>
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					<pubDate>12 Nov 2012 20:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hurricane Sandy on October 25th in the Caribbean. Photo by: NASA. Although Haiti avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Sandy, the tropical storm caused severe flooding across the southern part of the country decimating agricultural fields. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs now warns that 1.5 million Haitians are at risk of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hurricane Sandy on October 25th in the Caribbean. Photo by: NASA. Although Haiti avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Sandy, the tropical storm caused severe flooding across the southern part of the country decimating agricultural fields. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs now warns that 1.5 million Haitians are at risk of severe food insecurity, while 450,000 people face severe acute malnutrition, which can kill. &#8220;We have lost everything. If I do not find seeds and seedlings now, I will have to prepare them myself from remaining devastated crops. But it will take a year for them to be ready and more than six months after to harvest,&#8221; Nessilo Dorestant, a farmer in the southwest told the NGO ActionAid. &#8220;There is no possible way for my family to survive this long without food. All the farmers are in the same situation.&#8221; The government has said that 70 percent of agriculture in the southern part of the country has been wrecked. ActionAid is calling on international donors to step-up assistance to the disaster-struck country in order to avoid a hunger crisis. Haiti&#8217;s agricultural sector was already hard hit by Hurricane Gustav in August even before Sandy struck. Haiti declared a state of emergency on October 30th following Hurricane Sandy. In addition to inundating fields, the hurricane destroyed 6,274 homes and killed 54. The hurricanes this year follow mass devastation wrought by an earthquake in 2010, which killed upwards of 200,000 people and over a million homeless. Considered the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/hurricane-sandy-pushes-haiti-toward-full-blown-food-crisis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30065</doi>				</item>
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					<title>From &#8216;fertilizer to fork&#8217;: food accounts for a quarter of the world&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions</title>
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					<pubDate>01 Nov 2012 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Science, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Farming, Food, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Land Use Change, Poverty, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[Children stand in sweet potato fields in Indonesian New Guinea. A new report finds that poor and small-holding farmers are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Growing, transporting, refrigerating, and wasting food accounts for somewhere between 19-29 percent of the world&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, according to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Children stand in sweet potato fields in Indonesian New Guinea. A new report finds that poor and small-holding farmers are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Growing, transporting, refrigerating, and wasting food accounts for somewhere between 19-29 percent of the world&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, according to a new analysis by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). In hard numbers that&#8217;s between 9.8 and 16.9 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, more than double the fossil fuel emissions of China in the same year. Over 80 percent of food emissions came from production (i.e. agriculture) which includes deforestation and land use change. &#8220;We are coming to terms with the fact that agriculture is a critical player in climate change,&#8221; Frank Rijsberman, the CEO of the CGIAR Consortium, said in a press release. &#8220;Not only are emissions from agriculture much larger than previously estimated, but with weather records being set every month as regional climates adjust and reset, there is an urgent need for research that helps smallholder farmers adapt to the new normal.&#8221; While researchers have long estimated the climate costs of food production, this is the first analysis that attempts to take the entire food industry into account. &#8220;It includes manufacture of inputs like fertilizers, then agriculture itself, but also food distribution and sales, use of food in the home, and how food waste is managed,&#8221; the report&#8217;s lead author, Sonja Vermeulen, told the Inter Press&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/from-fertilizer-to-fork-food-accounts-for-a-quarter-of-the-worlds-greenhouse-gas-emissions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30093</doi>				</item>
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					<title>One in eight people suffer from malnutrition worldwide</title>
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					<pubDate>16 Oct 2012 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biofuels, Climate Change, Drought, Economics, Environment, Extreme Weather, Farming, Flooding, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Heatwave, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Population, Poverty, and Poverty Alleviation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Girl in village in Madagascar. One of the world&#8217;s poorest countries, it has been estimated that about 70 percent of Malagasy people suffer from malnutrition. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In a world where technology has advanced to a point where I can instantly have a face-to-face conversation via online video with a friend in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Girl in village in Madagascar. One of the world&#8217;s poorest countries, it has been estimated that about 70 percent of Malagasy people suffer from malnutrition. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In a world where technology has advanced to a point where I can instantly have a face-to-face conversation via online video with a friend in Tokyo, nearly 870 million people, or one in eight, still suffer from malnutrition, according to a new UN report. While worldwide hunger declined from 1990 to 2007, progress was slowed by the global economic crisis. Over the last few years, numerous and record-breaking extreme weather events have also taken tolls on food production. Currently, food prices hover just below crisis levels. &#8220;We find it entirely unacceptable that more than 100 million children under five are underweight,&#8221; the heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) write in a forward to the report, State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, adding that such children &#8220;are unable to realize their full human and socio-economic potential, and that childhood malnutrition is a cause of death for more than 2.5 million children every year.&#8221; From the early 1990s to today, the number of those going to bed hungry has fallen by around 132 million, dropping from 18.6 percent to 12.5 percent of the total world population. While this is laudable progress, regions still make a big difference. In fact, hunger has actually risen in Africa: 64&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/one-in-eight-people-suffer-from-malnutrition-worldwide/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30169</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mekong dam spree could create regional food crisis</title>
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					<pubDate>27 Aug 2012 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Mekong Basin, Southeast Asia, Thailand, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Dams, Developing Countries, Development, Ecosystems, Energy, Environment, Farming, Fish, Fishing, Food, Freshwater, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, Hydroelectric Power, Livestock, Meat, Politics, Rivers, Water, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[A fisherman on the Mekong River in Laos. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Fish are a hugely important protein source for many people around the world. This is no more evident than along the lower Mekong River delta where an estimated 48 million people depend directly on the river for food and livelihoods. But now [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A fisherman on the Mekong River in Laos. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Fish are a hugely important protein source for many people around the world. This is no more evident than along the lower Mekong River delta where an estimated 48 million people depend directly on the river for food and livelihoods. But now a new study in Global Environmental Change cautions that 11 planned hydroelectric dams in the region could cut vital fish populations by 16 percent while putting more strain on water and land resources. &#8220;The Mekong countries are striving for economic growth, and they see hydropower as a driver of that growth. But they must first fully understand and take into account the true economic and social value of a free-flowing Mekong,&#8221; says co-author Stuart Orr, freshwater manager with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), in a press release. Economically, the 11 planned dams could cost the Mekong countries&#8212;Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia&#8212;nearly half a billion US dollars annually in lost fish catch. Replacing the lost fish protein with protein from livestock&#8212;such as cattle, pigs and poultry&#8212;would also require an additional 4,863 square kilometers (3,021 square miles) of land, according to the study. Water requirements would also need to boosted to irrigate crops for the livestock. For example, the 11 dams would require Cambodia to consume 29-64 percent more water for its agriculture, and Laos would need 12-24 percent more. Controversy has already erupted over the massive $3.5 billion Xayaburi dam currently under construction in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/08/mekong-dam-spree-could-create-regional-food-crisis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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