In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses amounted to US$202.7 billion. The 2023 earthquake in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic was the most catastrophic event …
Self-Help Group and linkage banking programme has come a long way from a small pilot project of NABARD to become a major poverty financing programme in India. Several organisations have participated in the country-wide programme with several models, but the essence remained the banking linkage through groups of poor women. …
According to the 2001 census, about 43.5% of the households have been provided with electricity connections. This has gone up from 30.5% at the time of the 1991 census. The vast majority of rural population, however, still has no access to electricity and is dependent on kerosene lamps and lanterns. …
www.keralafishworkers.org The world is getting serious about its dwindling marine resources. There is a large amount of frightening data on it. But hardly do these touch the fisherfolk
Uncertainty in the occurrence of rainfall with respect to time and quantity is a major contraint to agricultural production in rainfed areas. To alleviate the constraint, groundwater is pumped at an unsustainable rate causing continuous water table decline. Groundwater recharge by the rainwater and runoff harvested in percolation tanks can …
The use of clean fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) instead of biomass-based fuels used for cooking in India would be beneficial in several ways. However, only about 33.6 million or 17.5% of all Indian homes use LPG as their primary cooking fuel, with 90% of rural homes still …
function graphs() { var popurl="files/images/20040831/60.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=410,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } employment • Agriculture does not create enterpreneurs that can handle a monetised economy. Urban populations surge as people move to cities loking for options (see graphs) Urban jungle • The educated youth moves to towns. But education fails them. Assam is worst-hit, with …
· 110 out of 182 countries are culturally diverse with at least 25 per cent of their populations belonging to an ethnic or a religious minority. In 42 countries their population ranges between 10-25 per cent · Yet, 900 million of them belong to groups subject to some form of …
Attacks by large carnivores on humans can occasionally help to generate significant resistance to carnivore conservation efforts. The authors have reviewed research addressing concerns for human safety in large carnivore conservation, and have evaluated statements about the frequencies and causes of attacks based on our findings concerning i) existing data …
• 50 per cent of the people in the least developed countries (LDCs) live on less than US $1 a day. In 2000, this group totalled 334 million. By 2015, they could be 471 million • Such poverty levels limit their ability to generate domestic resources. In 28 LDCs, the …
In deep shit This is what most developing countries are in Country Total population (millions) Annual excrement production (million metric tonnes) Annual excrement not disposed of safely (million metric tonnes) Afghanistan 28.7 2.7 2.4 Bangladesh 146.7 13.9 7.2 Brazil 176.5 16.7 4 Burkina Faso 13.2 1.3 0.9 Cambodia 12.6 1.2 …
This article shows that despite increasing catches by foreign fishing fleets, the economic growth and social benefits from marine resources have not been met for many western African countries that host these fleets. A meta-analysis of changes in catches, market values, exports, imports, employment, access, and domestic supplies in western …
