Ambiente - Salute - Diritti Umani - Nutrizione - Agricoltura

21. Africa - Environmental and health issues
(Notizie/Salute)

SALUTE Unless Africa’s leaders prioritize environmental and health issues, and prevent the degradation of health-promoting food and medicinal plants, people’s health and productivity ...

22. Our Nutrient World - Food, pollution and agriculture
(Notizie/Agricoltura)

... nutrients.  While this had huge benefits for world food and energy production, it has also created a web of water and air pollution that is damaging human health, causing toxic algal blooms, killing fish, ...

23. Canada - Indigenous protest movement highlights deep-rooted injustices
(Notizie/Diritti Umani)

... * Climate change rattles mental health of Inuit in Labrador: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-rattles-mental-health-of-inuit-in-labrador-1.2492180 Informazione di base: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit ...

24. Fao - Neglected crops need a rethink
(COLTIVARE/COLTIVARE)

... and irreplaceable resources, it will be more difficult for us to adapt to climate change and ensure a healthy and diversified nutrition for all," the FAO chief said. (...) The article: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/166368/icode/ ...

25. "Salute 2020" - Dall'OMS azioni ed indicazioni strategiche per il miglioramento della salute dell'Europa
(Notizie/Salute)

... persona". (...) Dal sito dell'OMS/Europe: http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/health-policy/health-2020 Il Documento: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/169803/RC62wd09-Eng.pdf ...

26. "Environmental, humanitarian and economic challenges do not exist in isolation..."
(Notizie/Ambiente)

... to extract such metals can be more or less bad for the environment and human health. (...) The article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=combining-development-humanitarian-aid-and-climate-change-responses ...

27. Estrazione di idrocarburi - Il fracking non piace all’Unione europea (e non solo)
(Notizie/Ambiente)

...  * * *   Shale gas - A study on the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health: http://news.greenfacts.org/2012/10/gaz-de-schiste-une-etude-sur-les-risques-potentiels-pour-lenvironnement-et-la-sante-humaine-resultant-de-la-fracturation-hydraulique-en-europe/ ...

28. WMO to launch global climate services system
(Notizie/Ambiente)

A global climate services system is due to be launched in October, in the hope of providing advance warning of weather changes that influence water, food security, natural disasters and health. Around ...

29. WHO - Human health and the Rio Conventions
(Notizie/Salute)

SALUTE This discussion paper is the result of collaboration between the World Health Organization and the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Framework ...

30. How Access to Clean Water Prevents Conflict
(Notizie/Diritti Umani)

... girls in school, increasing their economic opportunities, and eventually, the health of their own children. Innovative ways to finance water entrepreneurs could open up an avenue for new investments and ...

31. Bangladesh - Women on the Brink
(Notizie/Ambiente)

... no help from anywhere. There is no drinking water supply, no land to grow food crops on, no healthcare facility, no roads, no jobs and absolutely no sign of any security or authority. Any natural protection ...

32. A New Approach to Feeding the World
(Notizie/Agricoltura)

... security are serious, especially in developing countries where 2 billion rural poor depend on healthy ecosystems for sustenance. It may be tempting to dismiss the latest concerns about food price spikes. ...

33. United Nations - Global steps vital to preserve worldwide soil fertility and avoid famine
(Notizie/Agricoltura)

... said, calling for a renewed international effort to assure sufficient fertile and healthy soils today and for future generations. “But it is also a fragile and non-renewable resource. It is very easily ...

34. Water Represents the Culture of a Human being
(MEDITARE/MEDITARE)

Floods, drought, torrential rains, climate change, hunger, poverty, prosperity, health, security are all phenomenon’s intimately linked with water. Welcome to our new blog on Blogactiv.eu. We are excited ...

35. UNEP Year Book 2011 - Emerging Issues in our Global Environment
(Notizie/Ambiente)

... plastic debris in the ocean can transport toxic substances which may end up in the food chain, causing potential harm to ecosystems and human health. The Year Book also explores the wider implications ...

36. Where is Global Health Heading?
(Notizie/Salute)

The United Nations University Office at the United Nations is organizing a discussion as part of the UNU Worldwide In New York Series entitled "Where is Global Health Heading?" presented by three scholars ...

37. The UN Rio Conventions - The linkages between biodiversity, climate change and sustainable land management
(Notizie/Ambiente)

... – at genetic, species, and ecosystem levels and can yield feedbacks to climate change. Maintaining and restoring healthy ecosystems plays a key role in adapting to and mitigating climate change through ...

38. UNEP - Africa Water Atlas
(Notizie/Ambiente)

... water issues and exemplifying them through the judicious use of case studies. It gathers information about water in Africa and its role in the economy and development, health, food security, transboundary ...

39. NASA's Earth Observatory (02 November 2010)
(VEDERE/VEDERE)

... on our climate and our health. -------------------- Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Flooding in Pakistan http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=46715&src=eoa-iotd ...

40. UN Chronicle no 2/2010 - Achieving Global Health
(Notizie/Salute)

Issue 2 of 2010 spotlights health priorities for the twenty-first century. Expert contributors assess that the Millennium Development Goals will not be met in many low-income countries by 2015. They also ...