Recycling Grey Water in The MENA Region

The recycling of grey water may reduce the shortage of water in the Middle East and North African Region (MENA).
Grey water is used water that comes from kitchens, bathroom sinks, bathtubs, and laundry. Black water comes from toilette and cannot be reused. The MENA region has 5% of the world’s population, but only 1% of [...]

Biofuel Use Causing Poverty?

With the recent release of a study completed by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors that projects that America could conceivably generate 90 billion gallons of ethanol by 2030, the United States seems bound to ignore the warnings OXFAM has made regarding the impact biofuel is making on the world food crisis. Over the [...]

Aquaponics- A Sustainable Solution

A loop system approach to sustainable living. Aquaponics could change how many countries suffering from poverty and facing water and food shortages could tangibly grow crops, purify water, and raise fish.
            The concept is relatively simple, Growing Power an organization that teaches sustainable farming techniques including AquaPonics explains, “By using gravity as a transport, water [...]

New digital soil maps to help fight hunger

On January 13 the International Center for Tropical Agriculture introduced a new digital map technology that covers 42 countries, and will allow for soil scientists to pinpoint areas of soil degradation. According to the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, “Low soil fertility is one of the major factors responsible for depressed yields on [...]

Access to food halved in Djibouti

Source: IRIN
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NAIROBI, 14 August 2008 (IRIN) – Access to food in Djibouti has been cut by more than 50 percent because of reduced availability and rising prices, according to a humanitarian official.
“The [...]

Microfinance continues to grow

According to the latest Vital Signs Update released by the Worldwatch Institute, the number of poor people worldwide receiving micro-loans increased 17 percent in 2006. The 2006 (latest data year) increase continued a double-digit growth rate that averaged about 29 percent annually between 2001 and 2006.
Microfinance has become an very effective tool for fighting poverty [...]

USAID: Global food crisis unlike any in 50 years

Testifying before Congress Wednesday, the Acting Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development James R. Kunder said the global food crisis is unlike any other food crisis we have faced in 50 years:
We are in the midst of a global food crisis unlike other food crises we have faced in the past half [...]

New Jersey-size “dead zone” in Gulf of Mexico

Scientists announced Tuesday that this year the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico will reach a record size equivalent to the state of New Jersey. The record dead zone is the result of soaring production of corn-based ethanol and widespread flooding in the Midwest, according to the scientists.
The dead zone is caused by the [...]

Food Flash Point: East Africa

Across the globe, from Brunei to London, the affects of soaring food and fuel prices are having a dramatic impact on economies and governments. But one region to watch in particular is East Africa.
According to a June 30 posting on their website, FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network) estimates almost nine million people in [...]

Millennium Development Goals Threatened

The heads of four United Nations agencies meeting at a session of the U.N. Social and Economic Council in New York Friday said current global economic factors have hurt international development programs and called for urgent action. The agency heads agreed that rising food and energy prices, global climate change and slow investment to improve [...]