Bolivian President Evo Morales Promotes Quinoa Against Food CrisisnewsOn Monday, Bolivian President Evo Morales praised the quinoa plant, a neglected mountain crop popular among health-conscious foodies, as a way to help solve the global food crisis. "Faced with the global food crisis, the Andean people have various responses and one of them is quinoa," said Morales during a...
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Where Have All The Hummingbirds Gone?newsThe glacier lily, as it is called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western North America. It flowers early in spring, when the first bumblebees and hummingbirds appear. But the glacier lily is fast becoming a hothouse flower. In Earth’s warming temperatures, its first...
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Locusts, a threat to crops in AfricanewsCroplands in Niger and Mali are at “imminent risk” from desert locust swarms that are moving southward from Algeria and Libya, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned on Tuesday. Locust infestations were first reported in southwest Libya near Ghat in January 2012 and in southeast...
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Andean regional project to strengthen the sustainable mountain developmentblogThe Project "Strengthening participative management for sustainable development of the Andes" aims to strengthen and to extend the institutional framework of mountain within Andean region, improving participative management of resources in the Andes and sharing the knowledge about several issues that cover them. This project aims to create a regional...
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Brazil launches Green Passport Campaign on Eve of World Environment DaynewsThe Green Passport initiative has been launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the government of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. The campaign, which started ahead of World Environment Day on 5 June, aims to help travelers become more environmentally conscious. UNEP spokesperson Nick Nuttall says thousands...
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AfDB and WWF to launch Africa Ecological Footprint ReportnewsThe African Development Bank (AfDB) and global conservation group WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) have launched today a joint report on the state of Africa’s environment. The Africa Ecological Footprint Report takes stock of the health of Africa’s ecosystems, as well as trends in resources use...
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