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Importance of Antibiotic Resistance in Farming Stressed Ahead of UN Event
2016-09-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Good farm hygiene and animal health practices can greatly reduce the need to use antimicrobial medicines, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said in its new Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.
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Rich nations not leading way to end poverty, inequality: UN
2016-07-14 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Panarmenian: Most of the world's richest countries failed to earn top marks on their progress toward reaching the United Nations' goals to end poverty and inequality, with only Germany and the United Kingdom in the top ten, according to a list published on Thursday, July 14, according to Reuters. The United States ranked 25th on the index of 149 countries, scoring poorly on promoting clean energy and fighting inequality and climate change, said the ranking by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network...
Threatened World Heritage Sites Must Be Protected Warns UN Body
2016-07-13 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Threatened World Heritage Sites Must Be Protected Warns UN Body The future of some of the world`s most important natural World Heritage sites was determined yesterday at a UN session representing 192 countries. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to keep the Belize barrier reef and Selous Game Reserve on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The reef was kept on the list due to continued threats from oil exploration, damaging coastal construction and pollution. While the decision...
Double shock of El Nino, La Nina could affect more than 100 mln people - UN
2016-07-06 12:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The number of people affected by the combined impact of the El Nino and La Nina weather patterns could exceed 100 million by the end of the year, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that more than 60 million people, two thirds of them in east and southern Africa, are facing food shortages because of droughts linked to El Nino, a climate phenomenon that occurs when water in the Pacific Ocean becomes abnormally warm. The impact of La...
Poor Children Are Twice As Likely To Die Before 5th Birthday Than Rich: UN
2016-06-28 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young children will die mostly preventable deaths by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed, UNICEF said in a bleak report issued on Tuesday. Poor children are twice as likely as rich children to die before age 5, and poor girls are more than twice as likely to become child brides in signs of troubling inequality, said the annual report by the United Nations' children's agency....
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