Wednesday-Night

Sahel Africans Face Hunger Despite Bumper Harvest
(Planet Ark/Reuters) DAKAR - Poor people in Africa’s arid Sahel region will go without food despite bumper harvests this year, as wild price moves on world markets put staple cereals beyond many families’ budgets, aid agencies say. Prices of imported foods have ballooned in recent years, pushing up […]

More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com     
Thirst a powerful slide show on water
Water: A finite resource (with pictures and graphs)
Although water covers 75 percent of the world’s surface, 97.5 percent of the earth’s water is salt water; of the remaining 2.5 percent, most is locked away as groundwater or in glaciers.
Water for Food, […]

Cities and growth
The problems—and benefits—of urbanisation on a vast scale
the world’s urban population has risen from 1.6 billion to 3.3 billion, and over the next 30 years cities in the developing world are set to grow by an extra 2 billion. But many governments have become doubtful of their ability to cope with urbanisation on […]

We are delighted to hear from former (because they moved to Toronto) Wednesday Nighters Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu about the book they have just published. We look forward to reading it.
Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the Food Mile Perspective
Hiroko Shimizu, […]

August 14
African firms start to take action on climate change
“The environment is not being taken very seriously in most of the emerging markets, because we haven’t started feeling the pressure yet. But it has got to be addressed and it is up to us corporates to lead that.” Barclays Bank […]

June 28, 2008
As drylands get drier and violence grows, new crises resembling Darfur will arise.
Jeffrey Sachs
NEWSWEEK
The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions already facing […]

See also:
Why a U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis Is Felt Around the World
WHAT WENT WRONG - The Economy ; What’s next? ; World Economy and related posts on The Economy
29 August 2007
We are NAFTA-ed out! The intense discussion last week was excellent, informative and at points highly entertaining, but it’s time to move on.
Today’s […]

We hope that some of you were able to attend the Millennium Promises Conference last Thursday, and at the very least, that you followed the extensive media coverage of what proved to be an impressive and very successful event. Bill Clinton was amazing, as was Jeffrey Sachs, but the co-chairs, Belinda Stronach & Rick […]