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 | 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.
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| 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.
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| NAIROBI, 19 July 2007 (IRIN) - To escape the poverty trap, the world's 50 least developed countries (LDCs) must narrow the technology gap between them and the rest of the world, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says in its 2007 report.
The director of UN-HABITAT's Monitoring and Research Division, Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, said at the launch of the report in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital,
said LDCs, most of which are in Africa and Asia, must increase the knowledge intensity of their economies. |
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 | DAKAR, 10 July 2007 (IRIN) - Inappropriate aid policies are partly responsible for the Sahel region’s poverty according to a strongly-worded report issued jointly by 10 international NGOs to be released on Wednesday in London.
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| GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG, 22 June 2007
(IRIN) - A blender in Malawi and a jar of Nutella started a revolution
in saving the lives of starving children.
Frustrated by years
of developing recipes that did not work, including fortified doughnuts
and pancakes, paediatric nutritionist André Briend was inspired by a
jar of the chocolate spread, Nutella. Borrowing a mixer from a local
restaurant, he made his first cocktail of milk powder, sugar, peanut
paste, oil and a dash of vitamins and minerals ten years ago in Malawi.
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