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Imelda Abano on the Challenges of Reporting on Population and the Environment in the Philippines
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In this podcast, Imelda Abano, who writes for Eco-Business in the Philippines, discusses her experiences reporting on population and environmental issues.
“It’s a very tough job for us to be reporting on these issues, but we have the responsibility to raise awareness…and we have to push for government action,” Abano says.
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UNEP Highlights Environmental Impacts on Health in Africa
›March 20, 2013 // By Carolyn Lamere
While it can be convenient to think of human health and the environment as unrelated silos, they are in fact closely related. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) recently released a report underscoring this point especially for Africa, where large numbers of people are directly reliant on natural resources for their livelihoods.
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Demographic Dividend and the Rise of the Global South
›The Global South is “radically reshaping the world of the 21st century, with developing nations driving economic growth, lifting hundreds of millions of people from poverty, and propelling billions more into a new global middle class,” says the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report, released yesterday. “More than 40 developing countries have made greater human development gains in recent decades than would have been predicted.”
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Africa Can Help Feed Africa: Removing Regional Barriers to Trade in Food Staples
›We need to understand why barriers to trade exist in order to alleviate the food insecurity that confronts Africa, said Makhtar Diop, World Bank vice president for Africa, at the Wilson Center in January.
The World Bank released a new report in October 2012 that is part of a series that concentrates on intraregional trade. Africa Can Help Feed Africa: Removing Regional Barriers to Trade in Food Staples, however, is unique, Diop said, because it “moves the focus from general barriers to trade in Africa to focus on food,” so that policymakers can move away from crisis response and address food insecurity at a base level. [Video Below]
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International Women’s Day: Violence Pervasive, With Wide-Ranging Effects
›March 8, 2013 // By Kate DiamondThe theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is “a promise is a promise: time for action to end violence against women.” The theme reflects that although there are a number of treaties and conventions that on paper promise to protect women’s rights, equality, and security, in reality, those promises to protect human rights have been broken time and again.
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Sam Eaton Describes Population-Food-Environment Links in Rural Philippines
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In this podcast, journalist Sam Eaton describes the process of producing two pieces that aired on Marketplace and NewsHour last year on the connection between population, the environment, and food security in the Philippines. Eaton visited the rural village of Humayhumay where PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc., has a pilot program distributing contraceptives and teaching community members about conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Although Eaton said he was at first hesitant to tackle such an “abstract concept” as integrated population, health, and environment development, he found on the ground that it had “all the elements of a good story” and there were tangible benefits visible within the community. Eaton discussed his reporting at the Wilson Center on January 28.
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The Other Migration Story in Mexico: Climate Change
›The conversation around immigration and Mexico has long been tied to the United States and the prevailing economic conditions in both countries. But a new report from the Royal United Services Institute argues that as temperatures rise and precipitation patterns change over the course of the next century, climate too will increasingly become a driver of both internal and international migration in Mexico. [Video Below]
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Fishing for Families: Reporting on Population and Food Security in the Philippines
›“My income is just right to feed us three times a day,” Jason Bostero told Sam Eaton in the rural Philippine village of Humayhumay. “It’s really, really different when you have a small family.” Eaton traveled to the Philippines to report on the connections between food security and population for Homelands Productions, creating a short film and radio piece that ran on NewsHour and Marketplace as part the Food for Nine Billion series last year. [Video Below]
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