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Study: surface ozone in India in 2005 damaged 6M tonnes of crops, enough to feed 94M people in poverty
2014-09-04 21:30:53| Green Car Congress
Poverty and hunger will not end without better rainwater management
2014-09-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world will fail to meet international targets to eradicate poverty and hunger unless countries improve the way they use rainwater, which billions of people depend on to grow food, leading water experts said. More than two billion of the world's poorest people live in the driest "hot spots', including Africa's Sahel region, parts of India, northern China and parts of Brazil. These regions, which also have the world's highest population growth rates, depend on unpredictable rainfall. But these...
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Dried up: poverty in America's drought lands
2014-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deseret News: This story is part of the Deseret News National Edition, which focuses on the issues that resonate with American families. In more than two decades working at a Central California food bank, Sandy Beals has never seen anything like this spring. Last month alone, FoodLink of Tulare County served 22,000 people who came in for food - 5,000 more than it usually serves each month and a 12 percent increase from the same month last year. For Beals, who runs the food bank, the spike in hunger traces...
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Number of Ugandans below poverty line reduces
2014-06-06 02:53:41| Agriculture - Topix.net
By Apollo Mubiru The number of Ugandans living below the poverty line has reduced from 56% in 1992 to 24.5% percent in 2009/10 and now stands at 19.7% in 2012/13.
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Microsoft joins Apple and Google to help fight poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area
2014-05-08 23:19:22| Apparel - Topix.net
Microsoft, along with Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google, IfOnly, Jawbone, Jelly, Levi Strauss and Co., LinkedIn, Lookout, Okta, Partner Fund Management, POPSUGAR, RPX Corporation, Salesforce Foundation, SV Angel, Workday Foundation, Zynga, and one anonymous company, are partnering with Tipping Point Community to raise $10 million to fight poverty in the ... (more)
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