Sustainable development blog : ecology and humanitarian aid

November 19th is World Toilet Day.

Picture courtesy World Toilet Day.

In September  2000 the United Nations adopted the Millenium Development Goals (MDG's), which were supposed to set clear goals for many development issues throughout the world. It also set time frames to reach

Climate change could have terrible side effects... and leave another 25 million children malnourished by 2050, unless heafty investments in adaptive measures are made, says a major new report.

Three-year-old Antonio, who has the weight of a 6-month-old baby, is being attended at a health center for malnourished children (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald)

An annual US$7 billion investment in agricultural productivity will be necessary to help farmers adapt and reduce

Pictures of children in third world countries... An efficient way to get aware that their way of living is definitely not ours... Unfortunately.

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