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Hunger in Africa, Land of Plenty
World Nutrition, 2017 SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 (IPS) - Globally, 108 million people faced food crises in 2016, compared to about 80 million in 2015 – an increase of 35%, according to the 2017 Global Report on Food Crises. Another 123 million people were ‘stressed', contributing to around 230 million such food insecure people in 2016, of whom 72% were in Africa.
Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram
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குறிஞ்சி நில மக்களின் சுற்றுச்சூழல் மேலாண்மை / Environmental Management of the People of Kurinji [PDF]
International Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies, 2023 The world is not only composed of Pancha Buddhas like earth, water, fire, air and sky. It is natural. The Tamil forefathers who knew this very well dealt with nature in the context of nature in Tholkaapiyam.
முனைவர் ர. பிரித்தா / Dr. R. Preetha
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An Adaptive Filter Based on Local Slope by Adjusting Elliptic Filter Kernel for ICESat-2 Photon Counting Laser Altimetric Data [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020 The Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) was launched on September 15th, 2018, which continues to perform measurement tasks as the successor to ICESat. Unlike full waveform technology of ICESat, ICESat-2 employs micropulse photon counting
Xie Huan, Ye Dan, Hai Gang, Tong Xiaohua
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Seeking Community Consent for Resource Development in Greenland
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2022 One of the major topics in Greenland’s politics in recent years has been the decision to develop, or not, some of the most abundant deposits of rare earth elements (REEs) on the planet.
Jonathan Wood
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Transit in the land of plenty : a case for linking land use patterns and public transit service planning [PDF]
, 2019 This professional report examines academic literature on needs-gaps analyses in transit planning and proposes that this methodology ignores the basic premise of transit planning which is to serve a region and respond to land uses.
Andersen, Hilary Kathleen
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Land of Plenty, Land of Misery: Synergetic Resource Grabbing in Mozambique
Land, 2019 Global climate change policy enforcement has become the new driving force of resource grabbing in the context of the “scramble of resources” in Africa.
Natacha Bruna
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Costs and Profitability of Crops for Bioeconomy in the EU
Energies, 2020 The bioeconomy is the cornerstone of the EU’s policy for shifting economic and societal trends towards circularity and low carbon arrangements. Europe has several crops that can be used as raw materials for this purpose, however pressure on land ...
Calliope Panoutsou, Efthymia Alexopoulou
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Gephyra, 2023 The wealth and possessions of Roman senators in the imperial period consisted predominantly in land property, as emphasized by Pliny the Younger (epist. 3,19,8).
Andreas Klingenberg
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Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2021 Progress in GIS technology has facilitated the topographic position index (TPI)-based auto-classification of landform units. Multispectral satellite images, when used along with terrain analysis output, provide valuable information on structure, soil ...
Lopamudra Roy, Sayantan Das
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Reducing the external environmental costs of pastoral farming in New Zealand: experiences from the Te Arawa lakes, Rotorua [PDF]
, 2011 Decades of nutrient pollution have caused water quality to decline in the nationally iconic Te Arawa (Rotorua) lakes in New Zealand. Pastoral agriculture is a major nutrient source, and therefore this degradation represents an external environmental cost
Abell, Jonathan Michael +2 more
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