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Benno Hansen

UN report urges greater green efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean - 3 views

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  • in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the rate of deforestation in the region is double the global average
  • targets contained within “MDG 7” is to integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes
  • from 1990 to 2005 the total surface of protected areas grew 120 per cent, consumption of ozone-depleting substances declined by 85 per cent and coverage of drinking water and basic sanitation rose by 10 per cent and 17 per cent, respectively
Benno Hansen

RIO+20 must build a new economic order - TH!NK ABOUT IT - 0 views

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  • In Rio, the United Nations must together build a new economic order.
  • While taking measures to tackle the crisis, we must separate growth from environmental damage.
  • we call on political leaders to renew their commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goals and to adopt additional measures backed up with the necessary funding. We call on developed countries in particular to implement their commitment to allocate 0.7% of their gross national income to development aid.
Benno Hansen

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People -- Godfray et al. 327 (5967): ... - 2 views

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  • more than one in seven people today still do not have access to sufficient protein and energy from their diet, and even more suffer from some form of micronutrient malnourishment
  • Increases in production will have an important part to play, but they will be constrained as never before by the finite resources provided by Earth’s lands, oceans, and atmosphere
  • a period of rising and more volatile food prices driven primarily by increased demand from rapidly developing countries, as well as by competition for resources from first-generation biofuels production
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  • agricultural land that was formerly productive has been lost to urbanization and other human uses, as well as to desertification, salinization, soil erosion, and other consequences of unsustainable land management
  • the world will need 70 to 100% more food by 2050
  • Low yields occur because of technical constraints that prevent local food producers from increasing productivity or for economic reasons arising from market conditions.
  • In the most extreme cases of failed states and nonfunctioning markets, the solution lies completely outside the food system.
  • Food production in developing countries can be severely affected by market interventions in the developed world, such as subsidies or price supports.
  • the environmental costs of food production might increase with globalization, for example, because of increased greenhouse gas emissions associated with increased production and food transport
  • Food production has important negative "externalities," namely effects on the environment or economy that are not reflected in the cost of food.
  • superior technologies may become available and that future generations may be wealthier
  • The introduction of measures to promote sustainability does not necessarily reduce yields or profits. One study of 286 agricultural sustainability projects in developing countries, involving 12.6 million chiefly small-holder farmers on 37 million hectares, found an average yield increase of 79% across a very wide variety of systems and crop types
  • Unexploited genetic material from land races, rare breeds, and wild relatives will be important in allowing breeders to respond to new challenges
  • Fair returns on investment are essential for the proper functioning of the private sector, but the extension of the protection of intellectual property rights to biotechnology has led to a growing public perception in some countries that biotech research purely benefits commercial interests and offers no long-term public good. Just as seriously, it also led to a virtual monopoly of GM traits in some parts of the world, by a restricted number of companies, which limits innovation and investment in the technology.
  • Roughly 30 to 40% of food in both the developed and developing worlds is lost to waste
  • unwanted food goes to a landfill instead of being used as animal feed or compost because of legislation to control prion diseases
  • retailers discard many edible, yet only slightly blemished products
  • In the developing world, losses are mainly attributable to the absence of food-chain infrastructure
  • About one-third of global cereal production is fed to animals
  • the argument that all meat consumption is bad is overly simplistic
  • There is no simple solution to sustainably feeding 9 billion people
Brian G. Dowling

STAND UP 2010 | Stand Against Poverty - 2 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 20 Aug 10
     
    The Blogger Unite Event is now registered with the Stand Up Take Action Millennium Campaign.
Brian G. Dowling

Development Gateway : About - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 02 May 10
     
    Another online resource that can be used in implementing the Millennium Development Goals. Development Gateway provides Web-based platforms that make aid and development efforts more effective around the world. It focuses on three areas where even small investments in information and communications technology can make a major difference:
Brian G. Dowling

International Literacy Day // Bloggers Unite - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10
     
    Fits in with Millennium Development Goal 2. Universal Education and is another Bloggers Unite event
Brian G. Dowling

OCHA Home - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10
     
    The mission of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10
     
    Another one of the UN global organizations working to help the most afflicted across the world. The funding of their work and other organizations to the level promised by the Millennium Declaration would make the Millennium Development Goals a reality. This is my post that featured OCHA http://anewmillennium.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-unicf-haiti-earthquake-situation.html and my post on Haiti http://anewmillennium.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-tragedy-and-heroism-of-mdgs-under.html
Brian G. Dowling

Make Noise for the Millennium Development Goals // Bloggers Unite - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 30 May 10
     
    A Bloggers Unite event in support of the Stand Up Take Action Campaign MAKE NOISE for the MDGs
Brian G. Dowling

Homepage | GirlUp | United Nations Foundation | Uniting Girls to Change the World - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 02 Jun 10
     
    United Nations addresses these issues particular to girls across the globe with the launch of GirlUp, a campaign that "gives American girls the opportunity to channel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds for programs of the United Nations that help some of the world's hardest-to-reach adolescent girls." According to the campaign's website, "girls have the opportunity to become educated, healthy, safe, counted, and positioned to be the next generation of leaders."
Benno Hansen

"We Made a Devil's Bargain": Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that ... - 1 views

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  • Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year or so when we started rethinking it, that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era. It has not worked. It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake.
  • you just can’t take the food chain out of production. And it also undermines a lot of the culture, the fabric of life, the sense of self-determination
  • We should have continued to work to help them be self-sufficient in agriculture.
MrGhaz .

Do Diseases Come From Space: Comet Controversy - 1 views

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Astronomers Astronomy atmosphere diseases epidemic health influenza Interstellar Medical medicine Planet Probes science scientists Sir Fred Hoyle Solar System Space Explorer Swine Flu Wickramasinghe. comet

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  • MrGhaz . on 06 Jan 10
     
    To test their theory, the two astronomers studied flu outbreaks in British boarding schools. They found that flu did not spread from dormitory to dormitory, as one might think. Instead, out-breaks began randomly in different dormitories, as they might if they had been caused by organisms they might if they had been caused by organisms drifting through the atmosphere. In addition a flu epidemic in Sardinia in 1948 followed the same pattern.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10
     
    Sorry about not getting you in the group sooner. I did not realize that I had to approve anybody. So please explain a bit more clearly what this has to do with the Millennium Development Goals?
  • Benno Hansen on 07 Feb 10
     
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MrGhaz .

A Battle That Revolutionized Computer: Traveler's Tale - 1 views

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    Four salvos later, more than half of the Eurisko ships had been sunk but their commander, Douglas B. Lent, was preparing to accept the enemy's offer of surrender. Despite its huge losses, the lumbering Eurisko fleet had destroyed all but one of the opposition's highly vaunted high-tech ships. The battle had ended.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10
     
    Looks like an interesting post but not seeing any connection to the Millennium Development Goals. If you are just trying to get exposure there are more efficient means. Join BlogCatalog and similar organizations or think about starting your own group. The purpose of starting a group on a particular issue is to stay focused as possible.
Brian G. Dowling

Fashionable Earth » Blog Archive » International Day for the Eradication of P... - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 18 Oct 09
     
    The Fashionable Earth Organization is a nonprofit organization created to provide information, resources and programs that promote sustainable living and eco-friendly design. Our mission is to motivate, inspire and inform the consumer population toward being more green and eco-friendly, through our au courant mantra "reduce, reuse, restyle!"
Brian G. Dowling

Committment to Global Food Security Sadly Lacking - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10
     
    I am going to be more outgoing (the word that more naturally arises is pushy) in support of the Millennium Development Goals by including posts from my blog Milestones for A New Millennium. This post is on Food Security. Give me a shout if you think that this is not a good idea.
Brian G. Dowling

International Women's Day // Bloggers Unite - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10
     
    One of the Bloggers Unite events that can be seen being in support of Millennium Development Goal No. 3 Gender Equity
Brian G. Dowling

World AIDS Day // Bloggers Unite - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10
     
    Another Bloggers Unite event in support of Millennium Development Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases
Brian G. Dowling

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty // Bloggers Unite - 1 views

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10
     
    I participated in the Bloggers Unite event last year. It fits in with Millennium Development Goal No. 1 End Poverty
Brian G. Dowling

UN Foundation and Devex - Making the Millennium Development Goals Happen - 1 views

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  • As development professionals, you are working towards realizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – we want to hear from you about the on-the-ground successes and challenges you've experienced working on international development projects around the world.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 10 Jul 10
     
    Over the coming months, Devex will host a global conversation on each of the eight Millennium Development Goals - we want you to share your success stories, thoughts on what obstacles remain, and ideas for how the development community is Making the Millennium Development Goals Happen.
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