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15 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind
(Business Insider) Despite all the wild stories you have already heard about China, expect the nation to keep blowing your mind. That’s because not only is China enormous and highly diverse, but most importantly, […]

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic

For foreign policy-making, don’t look to Foreign Affairs
(Ottawa Citizen) … So what then is the policy role of Foreign Affairs — in Afghanistan or, potentially, anywhere else? What becomes of the Afghan Task Force when the Afghan war ends? Will it wither away — a highly […]

Lessons from the Green Revolution ; Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ; Agriculture & Food ; (International Food Policy Research Institute) Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen ; Global Treaty on Climate Change ; Climate Change (that is, Global Warming) and Sub-Saharan Africa (2005)

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AGRA works to achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural growth based on smallholder farmers.
Oxfam, a British aid agency, warned that Niger faced disaster due to persistent flooding.
(BBC) Oxfam issued its warning as nearly eight million people, or half the population, are already facing hunger because of failed […]

Green Facts Scientific Facts on Desertification
FAO Desertification website
Did You Know? Deserts and desertification
UNEP launches initiative to address desertification
Desertification threatens one-third of the planet and the livelihoods of more than a billion people, the United Nations Environment Program officials said Monday as the agency launched a new initiative. The decade-long effort will seek to support […]

Greatest ever letter of complaint Not to be missed!
This is a genuine letter of complaint sent to Sir Richard Branson. We know that because we checked with Virgin. Polly in the press office confirmed that Branson phoned the man back because “he always likes to hear feedback”.
More on aviation and airlines and Wednesday-night.com ; Financial […]

Africa development indicators 2008-2009 ; Kenya ; SciDevNet Sub-Saharan Africa
23 August 2007
Is Western aid making a difference in Africa?
(CSM) Two US economists [Ayub Rioba and Jeffrey Sachs] debate the value of antipoverty efforts.
“Is this really how to save Africa?” asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub Rioba, a day after Bill Clinton has left Africa. “We appreciate […]

The Prince’s Rainforest Project ; Rainforests: The Burning Issue – online interactive booklet;
Chinese scientists predicted dire results from deforestation
In a study published 13 years ago, two Chinese scientists predicted that aggressive deforestation in Gansu province would lead to landslides due to soil erosion. Government-run timber companies cut more than 300,000 acres […]

Anthony Germain: China in Africa
Investments come without demands for democracy
(CBC) Across Africa, China is pursuing a natural resources bonanza. In Angola it’s oil; in Mozambique, it’s timber and in Zambia, it’s copper. This grand enterprise has earned the world’s greatest emerging economy both friends and critics.
The Chinese in recent years have lent Africans billions of […]