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It may seem counterintuitive that rising food prices have contributed to a sharp rise in obesity rates, especially in low income countries, which tend to felt the brunt of pricier food stocks more acutely than rich ones. This is, however, the case, as illustrated by a new World Bank report...
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As was the case for all nations hundreds of years ago, organic farming was a default agricultural practice that sustained families and communities and India is no exception. In fact, India traditionally thrived from organic farming with fertilizers and pesticides produced from plant and animal...
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For many refugee children in Rwanda, simple amenities that those in the west take for granted, like a place to socialize, run around, and play football, are distant luxuries. This was true at the Nkamira Transit Centre in the country’s northwestern Rubavu district, where about 34,000 children...
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No stranger to controversy or international rebuke, Zimbabwe, a southern African ruled by Robert Mugabe since 1980, has found itself applauded in the news for major milestones this week.
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"Water water everywhere, only if we share", 23 year-old Megha Kumar of India
Billions of people struggle to survive each day due to the lack of clean drinking water and proper sanitation. 2.5 billion -to be exact, still live without basic sanitation in developing countries and 783 million people...
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The crowded refugee camps of Uganda are chaotic and hectic places. Within them, thousands of individuals who have fled their homes, primarily from fighting in the Eastern Congo, live with little in the way of an effective system of indentification or tracking. As a result, families and villages...
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Afghanistan elections are slated to take place in the spring of 2014.
On Tuesday -the United Nations Security Council held a high-level meeting on Afghanistan at UN headquarters, focusing on what is needed to help prepare the nation toward political transformation, as the UN with the help of...
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After more than two decades of stand-still, Somalia officially began exporting livestock, its biggest industry, during a launch event on Monday that witnessed thousands of goats and camels loading up into cargo ships for Gulf-bound markets, including the United Arab Emirates.
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Bitter news from Syria continued this week as the country saw its one millionth refugee register with UNHCR its borders since fighting began in the country in 2011. The milestone marks a sad reminder of the human cost of this conflict, and of how difficult it will be to rebuild the country when...
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Come rain, shine or snow, dozens of women braved the barren weather today to “March on March 8th, an initiative to celebrate International Women’s Day, and take a stand against violence against women.