Land
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March 19th 2013
CPRE report on UK planning policy
Campaign to Protect Rural England has published a major analysis of how the Government’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is being implemented during its first year. The emerging evidence raises... -
March 4th 2013
Sudan: 13 million suffer food shortage
The federal Minister of Health, Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, revealed that a survey conducted by the ministry in 13 states in Sudan indicates that around 13 million people suffer from... -
February 1st 2013
Resolving the food crisis?
What progress has been made in the last year in addressing the underlying causes of the global food crisis? Far too little. Now, following the third food price spike in... -
December 5th 2012
Africa’s lion population plummets
Africa's lions are running out of habitat and some populations, especially those in West Africa, are running toward extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. Using new satellite data, a research... -
November 29th 2012
UK needs more housing says minister
A third more of the country needs to be developed and a halt has to be made to the construction of "pig ugly" modern housing, the planning minister, Nick Boles,... -
November 28th 2012 | Tags: Land
Planning minister barks up the wrong tree
The new UK planning minister, Nick Boles, wants to increase the amount of urban area by one third. Yet it is not true that we do not have enough houses.... -
November 27th 2012
Cities expand into the Amazon
The Amazon has been viewed for ages as a vast quilt of rain forest interspersed by remote river outposts. But the surging population growth of cities in the jungle is... -
November 16th 2012
The Great Africa Land Grab: Comment
Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, writes in The Ecologist. Land grabbing has fast become a major threat to poor communities in Africa, Asia and South America. Poverty-stricken... -
November 11th 2012
Full Planet, Empty Plates
The Earth Policy Institute has published on its website a list of facts which are taken from Lester Brown’s book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. With... -
November 10th 2012
Egypt’s birth rate up in 2011
In 2011, 2.4 million babies were born in Egypt, a figure that is slightly larger from 2010, latest data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) showed...
