State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Global
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Managing the woods
Sustainable forest management is a concept hostage to many global players
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Shared interests
A mass immunisation programme for children in the developing world who contract easily-preventable diseases
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G strings
Or, what nations do to make themselves heard, internationally
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Tax the rich
The United Nations (UN) is set to take center-stage in the longstanding controversy over new sources of innovative funding for the world's poorer nations. The proposals on the table include a carbon
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Large carnivores and human safety: A review
Attacks by large carnivores on humans can occasionally help to generate significant resistance to carnivore conservation efforts.
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Towards a better yield
A pact aimed at ensuring sustainable food supply across the world has become international law. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will ensure continuous
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Toeing the green line
Renewed attempts were made to advance negotiations on environmental issues at the special session of the World Trade Organization's (wto) Committee on Trade and Environment (ctess), held in
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Reined in
Seahorses will now be protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites). They are the first commercially valuable genus to be accorded such a status. Countries
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Costs piling up
Annual economic losses due to natural disasters exacerbated by global warming may double to US $150 billion in a decade. A report brought out by insurance major Swiss Re states that insurers will
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Not a matter of dole
The World Hunger Task Force must respect the food choices of the poor consumer