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What did the last IPCC report say
Before IPCC releases the special report on global warming, take a look at how the panel has warned us before
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Can India reduce food wastage with community refrigerators?
Community refrigerators have helped reduce food wastage in the UAE, Germany and France. India too can popularise and scale up the initiative
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World's poor mostly reside in ecologically fragile areas
Looking at how poverty has reduced and where, it is clear that economic growth alone will not lead to poverty eradication. Global efforts must …
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Unequal India:101 billionaires thrive; 364 million poor struggle to survive
About 27.5 per cent of India’s population is multidimensionally poor and 8.6 per cent of the country’s people live in extreme poverty
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Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh poorest in the country: Global report
About 76.5 per cent of the people in the district are poor
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Poverty and emergencies keep children out of school
Every one in five children in the world are not in school, says the latest UNICEF report
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Africa to house 86% of the world’s poorest by 2050
Population growth in Africa is a major reason for high concentration of people living in extreme poverty, says a report
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The world will miss the SDG target 1, a poverty-free world
1.6 people should escape poverty every second but currently just 1.1 are doing so. Worryingly, by 2020, the rate of poverty reduction would …
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Govt wishes to achieve healthcare goals by spending Rs 3 a day?
According to the latest National Health Profile, India is one of the countries with the lowest public health spending
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'Energy poverty hurts women'
Women's participation should be considered while making policy on access to energy and management, says an expert
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From living in a mud house to a fixed roof, this Malawian farmer knows the value of climate-smart agriculture
Grace Manda from Malawi never thought a climate-resilient method of farming could help her build a fixed roof, send her kids to school, that too …
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Europe, Central Asia need to tackle poverty, climate change to be hunger-free
Support smallholders, family farmers to reduce poverty, says FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at a regional conference in Russia
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India’s neglected tropical diseases
India experiences the world’s largest burden of at least 11 major non-communicable diseases
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Two per cent of world population: that’s the number of poor in just five states of India
42 per cent of India’s population lives in these states and nearly one in every 4 person is poor
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How these five states in India are making it difficult to meet global SDG commitments
NITI Aayog CEO got it right, almost. Just five states are increasing the global challenge of meeting sustainable development goals
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Community-based wildlife conservation is bringing success to Tanzania
A few villages set aside land for wildlife conservation in return for the majority of tourism revenues, allowing rural communities & private …
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दिल दिया गल्लां
अचानक नागराजू बोल उठे, “यमराज जी मैं वापस जाने को तैयार…
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How government is subverting Forest Rights Act
Does this official data betray a conspiracy? Only 1.6 per cent of the 2.9 million claims approved under the Forest Rights Act recognise community …
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Poor social indicators must make Gujarat rethink its growth model
Shockingly, the state’s infant mortality rate is worse than Jharkhand; it also has the fourth lowest teacher student ratio in the country
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Employed but poor
Poverty among employed people underscores the need for a new strategy on job creation
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गरीबी की दलदल
हम गरीबी को परंपरागत बनाने की दिशा में आगे बढ़ रहे हैं। य…
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Cautionary tales
Jean Dreze argues that we should not leave the making of an equitable society to experts alone
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Cost of importing food is expected to rise 6% in 2017
The global food import bill is rising despite robust output in 2017, says UN
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How Delhi slums can fight climate change
Women's roups in the national capital are making efforts to build resilience against climatic impacts
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Poverty@25, India@70
Poverty remains conditional to one's social status
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Forget 2022, more than 110 million Indians would remain poor forever
The next generation of the current poor Indians has high probability of remaining poor as well. Lack of access to resources like forests and …
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Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity
This book explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality.
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भारत में आधे बच्चे हैं गरीब
ये बच्चे मूलभूत मानव विकास की जरूरतों से वंचित हैं। यह स…
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It is not a drought but a cumulative outcome of decades of policy sins
It is not deficit monsoon, rather the lack of policies and mechanisms to drought-proof susceptible areas that turn the situation into a crisis
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