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Starvation, Poverty Follow Indigenous Land Sales in Indonesia
2013-09-03 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The village of Zanegi in Merauke Regency of Papua Province, Indonesia, lies desolate and silent, in contrast to the rumble and drone of bulldozers and chainsaws in the distance. At the end of a row of humble wooden houses, 31-year-old Yosefa, an indigenous Malind mother of three, crouches beside her hearth, raking the embers of a dying fire, whilst rocking to sleep her three-year old infant. The child is emaciated and hollow-eyed. Gaunt and lethargic from severe malnutrition herself, Yosefa wipes...
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Focus on Poverty: We can create solar nations
2013-08-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Solar power makes sense -- if you can get it right. For many isolated rural communities, off-grid solutions are the best chance of accessing electricity. We assume too readily that such solutions have to be small-scale and expensive. Two major national projects from different world regions suggest this doesn't have to be the case. Peru recently announced a programme to supply solar power to two million of its six million people without access to electricity. The emphasis will be on poor rural...
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Coastal towns 'in cycle of poverty'
2013-08-05 02:56:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Declining seaside towns in parts of the UK are stuck in a cycle of poverty and are "dumping grounds" for the most vulnerable people, a think tank says.
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2010 Census: Percent of Population at or below Poverty
2013-08-02 01:36:34| PortlandOnline
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Will Barack Obama's Power Africa turn the lights out on energy poverty?
2013-07-04 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Sunday, standing in the shadow of the Ubungo power plant in Dar es Salaam, Barack Obama launched a multi-billion dollar effort to "plug Africa into the grid of the global economy". At face value, the US president's Power Africa initiative is welcome. It's an ambitious, aspirational commitment to "double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa". No doubt action is needed if trends continue, more people in Africa will be without access to modern energy services in 2030 than today. Obama prioritising...
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