http://waterforlifeconcerts.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:10:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90373 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90373#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:10:35 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://ebe0059d20d064e2ab8cf39d4d2b9d91 JIJIGA Thursday, September 02, 2010 (IRIN) - Pastoralists’ disproportionate contribution to Ethiopia’s economy is belied by their marginalized status and by policy assumptions that they would be better off farming. But those who raise livestock tend to make the most of marginal land, according to experts, and are often proficient at adapting to changing circumstances.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16198 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90376 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90376#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:10:35 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://ca9f6a5aa52c9a1a75e94bcc219031a5 DHAKA Friday, September 03, 2010 (IRIN) - A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals - by building the world’s first “green dock wharf” in Bangladesh.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16196 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90372 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90372#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:10:35 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://5ed9a6777c42818fead8130df8c02896 BANGKOK Thursday, September 02, 2010 (IRIN) - As rising food prices, growing populations and natural disasters increasingly put pressure on food production, governments and scientists are focusing on preserving the world’s agricultural biodiversity through seed and gene banks. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16195 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90278 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90278#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:47:10 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://050380509017d564c7ca7c3e31cb2eb1 MACOSSA Tuesday, August 24, 2010 (IRIN) - Albinio Matias, a Mozambican farmer, lost his daughter, Cassula, and his home to wildfires, which also damaged his crops for four consecutive years. Raising large domesticated rats could have saved him a great deal of pain.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16194 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90291 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90291#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:47:10 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://c1ae86490614daeb26b8343556aedc50 PHNOM PENH Thursday, August 26, 2010 (IRIN) - Late rains and record low water levels in Cambodia's two main fresh water systems will affect food security and the livelihoods of millions, government officials and NGOs warn. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16193 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90318 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90318#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:47:10 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://c44cfbd725c2758904a03c2f39defa54 DAKAR Friday, August 27, 2010 (IRIN) - Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is calling on donors and aid agencies to urgently send shelter materials, blankets and mosquito nets. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16192 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90279 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90279#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:39:00 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://bea7763860efe7be1b78893234c283f4 JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, August 24, 2010 (IRIN) - All eyes are on the Kotri Barrage in southeastern Pakistan, the last on the River Indus before it flows into the Arabian Sea. Meteorologists expect more but moderate rainfall over the upper reaches of the river, but a scientist involved in managing the ecosystem in that part of the river is optimistic. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16191 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90278 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90278#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:39:00 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://e59004ed6760128600d8d8a624fc9b9a MACOSSA Tuesday, August 24, 2010 (IRIN) - Albinio Matias, a Mozambican farmer, lost his daughter, Cassula, and his home to wildfires, which also damaged his crops for four consecutive years. Raising large domesticated rats could have saved him a great deal of pain.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16190 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90142 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90142#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:51:25 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://72177f080130041d9cd3d4a5e22cb6af JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 12, 2010 (IRIN) - The floods in Pakistan, which have killed at least 1,200 people so far, are already the world's second worst in the decade from 2001 to August 2010, according to the Belgium-based Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16189 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90247 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90247#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:51:25 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://17afe785bc525653e2819af2ff43f580 JOHANNESBURG Friday, August 20, 2010 (IRIN) - Pakistan's wheat production in 2011 would need to halve before it caused ripples in the global market, but it is still too early to predict the output, says a leading economist and grains expert. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16187 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90227 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90227#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:51:25 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://a345abfb977d2cd7f8ccfae5e8092343 JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 19, 2010 (IRIN) - On a tour of water-logged and rain-weary Pakistan, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the floods were the worst disaster he had ever seen. The response to the crisis has been less enthusiastic - only about half the US$459.7 million requested by the United Nations has materialized. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16185 0 http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/releases/2010/amr_20100820/en/index.html http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/releases/2010/amr_20100820/en/index.html#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 +0000 admin tag:who.int://17e9abcbc3638a1893da587980053f14 20 August 2010 -- WHO suggests that countries should be prepared to implement hospital infection control measures to limit the spread of multi-drug resistant strains and to reinforce national policy on prudent use of antibiotics, reducing the generation of antibiotic resistant bacteria.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16186 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90142 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90142#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:59:20 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://0fc56d53688724c24cdbf8e85218b824 JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 12, 2010 (IRIN) - The floods in Pakistan, which have killed at least 1,200 people so far, are already the world's second worst in the decade from 2001 to August 2010, according to the Belgium-based Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16184 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90172 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90172#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:59:19 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://de10e27027ff47affd2db8c4d86be12b JOHANNESBURG Friday, August 13, 2010 (IRIN) - In Pakistan there are drowned homes and millions of lives set adrift by floods, in Russia wheat crops have been shrivelled by drought and devoured by fire. Some scientists think the floods and the fires could be linked. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16183 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90200 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90200#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:59:19 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://8eb0d0661a1b5e508f4c5e1cf46ed628 ZIGUINCHOR Tuesday, August 17, 2010 (IRIN) - Families in Senegal’s Casamance region have less to spend and less to eat this lean season because of a drastic drop in mango production, residents and agriculture experts say.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16182 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90226 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90226#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:59:19 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://c1d2a80a4c6508d82c42b782d1c0e0a0 DAKAR Thursday, August 19, 2010 (IRIN) - Alcohol, excess sleep, drugs, social isolation and sex are some of the tools that humanitarians facing burnout use to switch off from the constant stress they face in a typical emergency response. But as research deepens into how stress affects the brain, mental health experts are hoping to build up natural resilience to maintain the mental health of field workers.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16181 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90142 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90142#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:39:18 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://167014a62fe689a672d9a066ef562d31 JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 12, 2010 (IRIN) - The floods in Pakistan, which have killed at least 1,200 people so far, are already the world's second worst in the decade from 2001 to August 2010, according to the Belgium-based Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16180 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90123 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90123#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:16:38 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://031c6c17cc6766e6357ed74df464a532 BAGHDAD Tuesday, August 10, 2010 (IRIN) - More than a tenth of Iraq’s 2009-2010 wheat crop has been infected by a killer fungus, according to authorities.]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16179 0 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90122 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=90122#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:59:04 +0000 admin tag:www.irinnews.org://a9a57096fd9488347e7bf49fba00d231 SANAA Tuesday, August 10, 2010 (IRIN) - Despite record rainfall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas this summer, very little is being done to harvest this water to mitigate water shortages, experts say. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16178 0 http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/statements/2010/h1n1_vpc_20100810/en/index.html http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/statements/2010/h1n1_vpc_20100810/en/index.html#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:00 +0000 admin tag:who.int://ad290b74abd8e438c3387697ee3308a3 10 August 2010 -- The new H1N1 virus has largely run its course and the world is no longer in phase 6 of influenza pandemic alert, but in the post-pandemic period. ]]> http://waterforlifeconcerts.com/?feed=rss2&p=16177 0