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Food crisis in the Sahel in 2012: a Somali déjà vu?
To avoid impending food crises in East Africa, policy makers should act now to ease the cross-border movement of pastoralists, says Pablo Manzano, Global Coordinator of the World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism. … | French
23 Apr 2012 | Article
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Time to re-boot: Towards a new environmentalism
In the build-up to the IUCN Congress, a landmark event for conservation, Dr Joe Zammit-Lucia argues that the environmental community needs to re-think its approach. …
01 Apr 2012 | Article
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Putting nature in the equation
Nature is the missing, fourth dimension of the water-food-energy security nexus, says Dr Mark Smith, Director of IUCN’s Water Programme. …
01 Mar 2012 | Article
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Navigating the politics of water
“Alternatives, dialogue and innovation can provide most of the answers to today’s water management problems.” …
01 Mar 2012 | Article
Opinion: The silent crisis
Europe is in a crisis. An economic and euro crisis. Merkel and Sarkozy dominate the front pages of our newspapers. At the moment economists and their analyses seem to interest even more people than the weather forecast. And the euro countries desperately try to collect 500 billion Euro to fill its emergency fund. This crisis is very vocal and hard to oversee. …
06 Feb 2012 | Article
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Opinion: How can cities build resilience while avoid eroding it somewhere else?
The world is increasingly urban, interconnected and shifting, writes Thomas Elmqvist. The world’s 20 fastest growing urban regions are in countries like China, India and Nigeria, not Europe or North America. By 2050, almost three billion more people will live in cities and the world will have undergone the largest and fastest period of urban expansion in all of human history. …
01 Feb 2012 | Article
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Happy New Year! (It could be the last)
Are people’s fears of a world-end related to our neglect of nature, asks Célia Zwahlen. …
01 Jan 2012 | Article
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Bold steps needed
As the UN climate summit gets under way in Durban, South Africa, IUCN’s Senior Climate Change Policy Adviser, Claire Parker, describes the current state of play regarding the negotiations and what steps IUCN wants to see. …
28 Nov 2011 | Article
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Scaling new heights in restoring and managing forest landscapes
Highlighting the importance of ecosystems and the services they provide has been an important part of IUCN’s work to better understand the value of forests at each level of the global economy, writes Stephen Kelleher, Deputy Director of IUCN’s Forest Programme. …
01 Nov 2011 | Article
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Looking for a leader
Businesses around the world are adjusting to a rapidly-shifting economic landscape but should we expect them to lead the way to a green global economy? …
13 Oct 2011 | Article
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