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Achieving the millennium development goals in an era of global uncertainty: Asia-Pacific regional report 2009/10
This report, which would jointly prepared by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank and the UN Development Programme, illustrates the negative impacts of the global economic crisis on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region and identifies opportunities for action showing how countries can better protect the
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- Mar 2010
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- UNESCAP
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Climate change assessment and decelerating food production trends in India
Climate change assessment and decelerating food production trends in India: a paper presented by Dr. Krishna Kumar, IITM, Pune at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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- Mar 2010
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- Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
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Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa
Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade.
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- Mar 2010
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- Ecologist
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Save lives by counting the dead
Counting the world’s deaths and finding out why people die is one of the most important goals to improve public health. Professor Prabhat Jha tells why he is obsessed with death numbers.
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- Mar 2010
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- Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: 88 Issue: 3 pp: 171-172
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Elimination of neglected tropical diseases in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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- Mar 2010
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- Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: 88 Issue: 3 pp: 206-210
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Eco-bio-social determinants of dengue vector breeding: a multicountry study in urban and periurban Asia
The objective was to study dengue vector breeding patterns under a variety of conditions in public and private spaces; to explore the ecological, biological and social (eco-bio-social) factors involved in vector breeding and viral transmission, and to define the main implications for vector control.
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- Mar 2010
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- Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: 88 Issue: 3 pp: 173-184
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In the market for proper sanitation
Poor sanitation helps spread disease, yet efforts to provide subsidized toilets have been resisted for cultural reasons in many developing countries. To improve the rate of uptake, some people are now advocating a market-based approach.
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- Mar 2010
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- Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: 88 Issue: 3 pp: 167-168
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Regional water intelligence report: Central Asia
This report focuses on water, an increasingly strategic resource in the Central Asian region for economic and social development. Says that the region as a whole is relatively well endowed in water resources but lacks good national and regional management frameworks. There are significant “upstream downstream” issues with wealthier countries downstream and poorer countries upstream.
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- Mar 2010
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- Stockholm International Water Institute
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Asian pollution delays inevitable warming
The grey, sulphur-laden skies overlying parts of Asia have a bright side — they reflect sunlight back into space, moderating temperatures on the ground. Scientists are now exploring how and where pollution from power plants could offset, for a time, the greenhouse warming of the carbon dioxide they emit.
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- Feb 2010
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- Nature Vol: 463 Issue: 7283 pp: 1
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Smart investments in sustainable food production: Revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems
Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world’s food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Science Vol: 327 Issue: 5967 pp: 822-825
