Browsing Tag: Crisis

Natural Disaster - Will the Pakistan floods strike again?

The recent floods in Pakistan's Indus Valley are of truly Biblical proportions. The UN estimates that the humanitarian crisis is now larger than the combined effects of the three worst natural disasters to strike in the past decade.
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Is There Enough Food Out There For Nine Billion People?

Sometime around 2050, there are going to be nine billion people roaming this planet—two billion more than there are today—and it's a safe bet that all those folks will want to eat.
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Global Shortage of midwives “deadly”

The number of midwives worldwide would have to more than double to meet Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal and infant deaths by 2015
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Gurbani and the Global Financial Crisis

What are down-to-earth answers drawn from Gurbani to help people tackling this world financial crisis; in pragmatic terms is it possible to create a counseling service based on the Guru's words?
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UN calls food summit in 2009, hopes for fair trade

The world should hold a food summit in the first half of next year to seek fairer trade and help farmers in poor countries make a decent living
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UN food summit hammers out plan for world's hungry.

A draft declaration vows to eliminate hunger and secure "food for all, today and tomorrow".
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UN Leader Calls for 50% Increase in World Food Output

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a 50 percent increase in food production by 2030, saying that failure to feed the world's growing population will spark civil unrest and starvation.
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