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Famine Or Feast?

2019-06-03 14:00:00| OGI

The plight of private equity in an exit-challenged market pivots on perspective. And focusing on the lack in the short term risks missing the abundance in the longer view.

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In times of great famine, microalgae digest themselves

2016-06-30 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] Bremerhaven/Germany, June 30th, 2016. In a recent study, scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have determined the molecular mechanisms which microalgae apply in order to switch from rapid cell division to growth-arrest during times of acute nutrient deficiency. In laboratory experiments, the scientists have been able to observe that calcifying microalgae in a state of nutrient deficiency initially tweak their metabolism to …

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For Ethiopia's famine survivors, new drought stirs hunger and fear

2016-03-01 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: When drought and pests decimated their farm in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, 10-year-old Eseye Tiruneh and her family boarded a bus, fleeing the starvation all around them. It was 1985 and Ethiopia was in the grip of its worst famine, which killed around one million people. Ethiopia's communist regime resettled Eseye's family in Wollega, over 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest, as part of an ambitious plan to move more than a million people from the drought-affected north, where it was fighting...

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Looming Ethiopia famine highlights vulnerability climate change

2016-02-25 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Food aid will run out for over 10 million Ethiopians by May, according to aid agencies, which fear a repeat of the horrendous famines of the 1970s and 80s. Chronic drought has sapped vast tracts of the north, central and eastern highlands, hitting crops and livestock as rain patterns have shifted. More than eight in ten people depend on rain-fed agriculture, according to Oxfam. Intensified by El Nino, the dry spell brings into sharp relief the vulnerability of the continent to a changing climate....

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60 million people in sub-Saharan Africa risk famine: Red Cross

2015-10-06 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: IFRC warned that a series of climatic shocks in 2014 and 2015 had decimated harvests and left many people in Gambia, Mauritania, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal and Zimbabwe dependent on food aid to survive Some 60 million people across sub-Saharan Africa are already going hungry and the situation could deteriorate dramatically as climate phenomena hike the risk of drought, the Red Cross said Monday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned that a series of climatic...

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