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12 Interesting facts on world’s forest status

  By iip | June 8, 2011 - 2:34 am | Forest
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A report on World Environmental Day (WED) 2011 in India highlights Forests in a Green Economy: A Synthesis, a recent UN Environment Programme (UNEP) analysis. The report prepared by Kate Langford of World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), a leading research and development institution on agroforestry.

I summarize Kate’s report to get the status of world forest and its relation to development. Some points refers to India, Carribean, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia.

Let see these interesting facts:

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Halloween chocolate: a sweet gift from south

  By iip | October 29, 2010 - 12:09 am | Earth
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The most popular food and searched by hundreds in recent week maybe a kind of Halloween chocolate. Although there are many stuff  like hallowen costume, signs, candles or lollipops halloween chocolate has unique story behind them. The chocolate is a food made from cocoa bean which only found the tree in tropical countries such Ghana or Indonesia, but there are no such halloweeen parties or else, including halloween chocolate.

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Global warming effects on poverty

  By iip | September 30, 2010 - 2:15 am | Earth
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Trade experts propose a global reform of trade policy to reduce poverty,  and  now climate scientits highligts about bad impact of climate change to marginal people in developing countries.

A paper published by Environmental Research Letters suggests that extreme climate events could influence poverty by agricultural productivity and raising prices of staple foods. Ahmed et al argues that climate extremes exert substantial stress on low income populations.

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