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27.07.2007 The cotton has now been dubbed "the killer crop" as continues to take the lives of farmers in the Vidarbha region of western India. High cost of farming and poor returns have taken the lives of nearly 8,000 farmers in four years says activist farmer Kishor Tiwari.
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26.07.2007 According to a recently released report by the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the world's least developed countries (LDC) are falling behind in technology. The report said foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into LDCs had increased substantially three times in the past 10 years but with little contribution to technological apability accumulation in LDCs.
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Related topics/regions: [economy] [policy initiatives in ICT] [ICT in poverty reduction]
26.07.2007 India currently produces 150,000 tons of e-waste a year but has been slow to regulate disposal with no proper guidelines and law. Delhi itself has 10,000 people who search for gold, copper, palladium, or anything else in the e-waste to reap profit from it even though it is a hazardous task.

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26.07.2007 The Green Revolution has been a useful response to food insecurity at a certain point in India's history. But the strategy cannot be a permanent one for a country like India. The fact is that intensive agriculture could happen only with high a level of irrigation, with diversity of ecology, rainfall and water table on which India is lacking.
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25.07.2007 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have agreed on a new approach to make online shopping safer. They have called on national authorities and business to set out clear, simple policies, explaining steps that customers should follow to make a complaint and then have it resolved.
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25.07.2007 Sono 7 milioni e 577 mila persone che in Italia vivono in condizioni di povertà: rappresentano il 13,1% della popolazione e fanno parte di 2 milioni 585 mila famiglie (l'11,1% del totale). E quanto emerge dal VII Rapporto della Caritas Italiana, che verrà pubblicato a ottobre, e di cui Caritas Italiana e Fondazione Zancan hanno fornito oggi alcune anticipazioni affinchè nella Finanziaria vengano poste in atto politiche organiche di lotta alla povertà. Il tasso di povertà non cala e poveri non sono solo tra i disoccupati e i migranti, ma sono anche diplomati, famiglie monoreddito con più figli, pensionati e specialmente tra le donne. Mons. Pasini ha ricordato che "l’Italia manca di un piano di lotta alla povertà: la storia del nostro Paese è come disseminata di ‘buone intenzioni' mai tradotte in un piano organico di lotta alla povertà".
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20.07.2007 Food supply could stretch tight for low-income food-deficit countries, says FAO’s latest report. After a relatively strong growth for four years in a row, production of cereals is predicted to go slow.
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18.07.2007 Pakistan NGOs are calling to voice the demands of masses for ending poverty on the world’s longest banner. The campaign is a follow-up to the events of 07.07.07 that highlighted the need to actualize the Millennium Development Goals.

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17.07.2007 International Labour Organization (ILO) plans to organise a seminar on “Labour Market Reforms: The Trade Union Response “in New Delhi, India. The seminar will be attended by the trade unions of the Asia Pacific region to discuss market reforms for increased employment and productivity.
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12.07.2007 Sarbuland Khan, the executive coordinator of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) in an interview to IPS, states that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) offers the best hope of empowering the poor and involving civil society in the development process. He hits out at governments that do not share information on water, health, food and sanitation.
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11.07.2007 The Indian island of Karavatti is desalinating the ocean’s waters into safe drinking water. This has been made feasible by a process involving thermal gradients of the sea at the National Institute of Ocean Technology plant.
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Heading for fair trade...
11.07.2007 The southern state of Kerala may be the first to ban large businesses in retailing in India. The recent opening up of the retail sector has led to discontent among traders and small vendors.
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11.07.2007 Zimbabwen hallituksen päätös alentaa tuotteiden hintoja 50 prosentilla johtaa analyytikkojen mukaan tuotannon supistumiseen ja työttömyyden lisäntymiseen. Hallitsevan ZANU-PF -puolueen miliisijoukot ja hallituksen virkamiehet ratsaavat tehtaita ja kauppoja pakottaen ne myymään tuotteet alennettuun hintaan.
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11.07.2007 La campagna "Acqua Pubblica, ci metto la firma!" ha consegnato ieri mattina al presidente della Camera, Fausto Bertinotti, oltre 400mila firme per una proposta di legge di iniziativa popolare che chiede la "ripubblicizzazione del serivizio idrico" e cioè che governo e gestione della risorsa idrica tornino ad essere interamente pubblici. In questi mesi di mobilitazione la campagna ha coinvolto circa 1000 comitati territoriali e 80 organizzazioni nazionali: "Un esempio di bella politica" - ha sottolineato Emilio Molinari del Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l'Acqua. Il Forum chiede che la proposta di legge venga immediatamente calendarizzata e che nel frattempo anche il Senato, dopo la Camera approvi la moratoria su tutte le privatizzazioni in atto.
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Stati Generali della Solidarietà e della Cooperazione
10.07.2007 "Soddisfazione verso gli impegni economici espressi sull’Aiuto Pubblico allo Sviluppo ed sulla cooperazione internazionale". E' il giudizio degli Stati Generali della Solidarietà e della Cooperazione Internazionale dopo un’attenta analisi e valutazione del Documento di Programmazione Economica e Finanziaria (Dpef) presentato la scorsa settimana dal Governo italiano. "L’aiuto pubblico allo sviluppo è entrato a chiare lettere nel decreto, rispondendo alle sollecitazioni più volte fatte dal mondo della solidarietà e della cooperazione" - dichiara la coordinatrice degli Stati Generali, Raffaella Chiodo. Il Dpef detta infatti il progressivo innalzamento della percentuale del Pil destinata all’Aiuto pubblico allo sviluppo con l'intento di avvicinarsi il più possibile all'obiettivo dello 0,51%. Positivi i segnali anche rispetto alle questioni ambientali, "ma ancora non c’è una proposta organica".
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05.07.2007 ActionAid has criticised UN’s Global Compact for failing to stop corporate human rights violations. Its call for legally binding rules to control corporate activities comes at the eve of the global UN summit on corporate responsibility in Geneva on 5-6 July.
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05.07.2007 Vuosikymmen sitten Aasian talouskriisi ravisteli maailmaa, ja sen jäljet näkyvät edelleen. Globalisaation vastainen liike roihahti tuolloin liekkeihin ja Kiina-ilmiö alkoi kasvaa.
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Can development benefit the poor?
03.07.2007 Hinting at increasing economic disparity in South Asia, despite rapid economic growth, the annual Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report by the UN says that a massive 30 per cent of the population still lives on a dollar a day in the Indian sub continent.
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Image: Can development benefit the poor? © Centre for Science and Environment

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