Articles en-us http://www.pix-aid.org N/A http://www.pix-aid.org 5flagsweb@gmail.com 20 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/38/1/Food-wasted-is-water-lost/Page1.html JOHANNESBURG, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria, Africa's largest body of water, according to a projection in a new policy brief. Lake Victoria's estimated volume is 2,750 km3. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/37/1/VIETNAM-Uphill-battle-to-raise-awareness-of-bird-flu/Page1.html HAI NAM , 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - The key message that needs to be heard is that Avian Influenza (AI) is endemic in Vietnam and needs to be controlled, say UN officials involved in the battle to identify and contain avian influenza outbreaks. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/36/1/Peru-Amazonian-Indigenous-Groups-Protest-New-Government-Decrees/Page1.html International Day of the World's Indigenous People was celebrated on August 9, but often in Peru these groups have very little to celebrate. The Aguaruna Indigenous group in Saramiriza in the Peruvian Amazon has mobilized to occupy the Petroleum Station No. 5 of the Northern Peruvian pipeline. Coordinadora Nacional de Radio [es] states that the groups are protesting that several legislative decrees are a threat to the Amazonian indigenous groups and peasant communities, which allows the government more access to their lands.span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@globalvoicesonline.org (Global Voices) Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/35/1/VIETNAM-Employing-improved-technology-against-typhoons-flooding/Page1.html AN GIANG, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) - Vietnam is experiencing more frequent and powerful typhoons and floods, and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report 2007-2008 has said as many as 22 million Vietnamese could be displaced if sea levels rise by one metre. The government is collaborating with UN agencies and the humanitarian community, as part of its overall disaster preparedness plan, to design effective ways to hold back the increasingly damaging storm surges and flood waters that wreak havoc on vulnerable rural communities. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/34/1/VIETNAM-Floods-in-north-leave-145-dead-or-missing-and-communities-isolated/Page1.html HANOI, 12 August 2008 (IRIN) - An estimated 145 people are reported dead or missing and more than 4,000 buildings damaged or destroyed in northern Vietnam after tropical storm Kammuri lashed the region with heavy rain and high winds for two days from 9 August, according to the Central Committee for Floods and Storm Control. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/33/1/Warnings-of-Civil-War-in-Amazon-Region/Page1.html While the world celebrates the rights of indigenous people this Indigenous People's Day, dispute over land in Brazil is bringing the country to the verge of a civil war. An historic land dispute between rice farmers and indigenous tribes in Roraima, a northeastern state that borders Guyana and Venezuela, has turned sour since April and violence has broken out, raising fears that the frequent confrontations will eventually escalate into a national domestic conflict. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@globalvoicesonline.org (Global Voices) Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/32/1/Humanitarian-futures---quotthe-crisis-of-humanitarianismquot/Page1.html NEW YORK, 25 July 2008 (IRIN) - The global humanitarian enterprise could lose touch with the needs of its beneficiaries because of political and security priorities, especially the “war on terror”, according to a new report. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/31/1/Detention-of-journalists-sparks-web-debate/Page1.html It would seem like the press in Vietnam is getting freer and freer, but the arrest of two journalists and a once-renowned investigator shows that any recent progress is tenuous. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } carofinlay@gmail.com (Caroline Finlay) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/30/1/Ban-on-street-vendors-threatens-livelihoods/Page1.html HANOI, 23 June 2008 (IRIN) - For the past decade, Nguyen Thi Lan has risen at 3am to boil up a pot of sticky rice. Before the sun comes up, she packs it into a bamboo basket, secures it to her bicycle and begins the long ride to Hanoi. In the city, she serves up scoops of rice sprinkled with dried pork, peanuts and sesame seeds and on a good day she will return home with $3.50. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/29/1/Seeing-is-believing/Page1.html Convincing wary villagers of new ideas can be a long process. Sergio Mora, an agricultural engineer, knows this well. He has been working for years in the high mountain villages of Peru, bringing irrigation to dry lands. “You have to take your time,” says Sergio. “By example and patience, you can win their confidence.” John Paucar, Pix-Aid’s journalist in Cusco reports just how delicate this process can be.span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } paucacho@hotmail.com (John Paucar) Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500