Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
Drought
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Bacteria teach crops how to endure drought
A hardy bacterium that can adapt to water scarce conditions offers clues to how crops can survive dry periods
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Death by starvation
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.
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Selling children to save them
Although 16 cases of children being sold have been reported, the Orissa government refuses to even acknowledge the problem.
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Putting trees before human life
On a single day in 1731, more than 350 persons 69 of them women sacrificed their lives to protect their trees from being felled in Jalnadi village, near Jodhpur.
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Famines in India are a nightmare of the past
A WHO study notes that While India has achieved impressive levels in food production, equitable distribution is still a distant dream. Chronic hunger still persists, but severe,nutrition related diseases have almost disappeared.
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Healthy progress
Diseases caused by severe malnutrition have been virtually eliminated.
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Nature and nutrition
Crops grown in micronutrientdeficient soils can lead to various types of illnesses.
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The raindrop
"The Raindrop" is about a village near Chandigarh in Haryana. The book tells the story how this village was able to transform itself from a drought prone one to a food exporting one through community efforts and scientific watershed management.
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Human greed compounds nature's tragedy
The devastating famine that is killing Somalis by the thousands each week will end some day, but they may find out then that they have to deal with a new horror: the country has become a dumping ground for vast quantities of toxic waste.
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Hunger in a bitter battle of bullets and bullies
Bickering aid agencies and rival rebel militia are all to be blamed for blocking the delivery of emergency food supplies to starving millions