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Agriculture, soil, food Archive
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Global drought hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage in 2023-2025
Posted on July 2, 2025 | No CommentsUN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Food, water, energy crises, human tragedies in 2023-2025 detailed in sweeping analysis Fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, […] -
Rangelands’ ‘silent demise’ threatens climate, food, wellbeing of billions
Posted on May 21, 2024 | No CommentsUN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Bonn/Ulaanbaatar – Degradation of Earth’s extensive, often immense natural pastures and other rangelands due to overuse, misuse, climate change and biodiversity loss poses a severe […] -
Sand and dust storm frequency increasing in many world regions: UN
Posted on November 15, 2023 | No CommentsUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Two billion tons of sand and dust, equal in weight to 350 Great Pyramids of Giza, enter the atmosphere every year; UNCCD experts […] -
Invasive Alien Species: Major Global Threats to Nature, Economies, Food Security, Human Health
Posted on September 4, 2023 | No CommentsIPBES, Bonn, Germany Key role in 60% of global plant and animal extinctions; Annual costs now >$423 Billion – have quadrupled every decade since 1970; Report provides evidence, tools and […] -
World “at a crossroads” in management of droughts, up 29% in a generation
Posted on May 11, 2022 | No CommentsUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating mitigation must be done “urgently, using every tool we […] -
Chronic land degradation: UN report offers stark warnings, remedies
Posted on April 27, 2022 | No CommentsUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Up to 40 % of the planet’s land is degraded, directly affects half of humanity, threatens roughly half of global GDP (US$44 trillion); […] -
UN: 500 million live in 19 African nations deemed water insecure
Posted on March 21, 2022 | No CommentsUnited Nation University Institute for Water, Environment & Health 1st assessment of water security in Africa is based on 10 indicators Despite global Sustainable Development Goals and commitments made in […] -
50% more wildfires foreseen by 2100; Governments are not prepared: UN
Posted on February 23, 2022 | No CommentsUN Environment Programme Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, faces rising wildfire risk; Wildfires and climate change are “mutually exacerbating”; Governments are called to radically shift their investments to […] -
In the news, 2021: Our clients’ most noted science news releases of the year
Posted on January 1, 2022 | No CommentsTerry Collins & Assoc., Toronto Of the 18 science news releases produced in 2021, 16 were environment-themed: food waste, e-waste, oceans, biodiversity, dams, and floods. And one announced 14 living […] -
IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts
Posted on June 10, 2021 | No CommentsIPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services) Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, have combined and increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods and […] -
UN: 17% of all food available at consumer levels is wasted
Posted on March 4, 2021 | No CommentsUnited Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Paris Wasted in 2019: 931 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and other food services; Study finds food waste is a global, […] -
Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report
Posted on September 15, 2020 | No CommentsUN Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature’s accelerating decline Final report card on Aichi Biodiversity Targets, set […] -
Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams
Posted on February 3, 2020 | No CommentsUN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer […] -
Experts warn booming seaweed industry
Posted on September 2, 2016 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Beyond sushi wrap: Expanding number of valuable uses drives astonishing growth of seaweed farming; Experts urge burgeoning industry […] -
Innovation and Its Enemies: How the history of margarine and tractors can inform policy making
Posted on July 6, 2016 | No CommentsHarvard Kennedy School / Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge MA 6 July 2016 Why important innovations stall; Understanding obstacles to change key to timely adoption of technologies […] -
Pollinators Vital to Our Food Supply Under Threat
Posted on February 26, 2016 | No CommentsIPBES, Bonn / Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia 26 Feb 2016 Assessment Details Options for Safeguarding Pollinators Kuala Lumpur – 26 February, 2016 – […] -
Vast energy value in human waste
Posted on November 3, 2015 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health — Hamilton, Canada 3 Nov 2015 Safe, systematic collection of human waste in low-resource countries could yield valuable fuels, invaluable […] -
World loses trillions of dollars worth of nature’s benefits each year due to land degradation
Posted on September 15, 2015 | No CommentsUN University – INWEH, Hamilton, Canada 15-SEP-2015 To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the world, experts have assessed the value of ecosystem services provided by […] -
Investing ~3.5% GDP in science, technology, innovation: benchmark for sustainable development
Posted on July 9, 2015 | No CommentsUNSG’s Scientific Advisory Board Paris 9 July 2015 UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board calls for advisor, not observer seat for science at leaders’ policy-making table; recommends science test for pending policy […] -
World losing 2,000 hectares of farm soil daily to salt damage
Posted on October 28, 2014 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton CANADA 28-Oct-2014 Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20 percent of all irrigated lands — an area equal to France; Extensive costs include $27 […] -
Indigenous knowledge: preserving biodiversity, ecosystem services
Posted on December 8, 2013 | No CommentsUN Intergov’l Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bonn 8 December 2013 IPBES experts cite importance of ‘co-production’ of information with indigenous people With the planet losing species 100 […] -
Economic rewards of better land management: Estimated 2.3 billion tons of crops worth $1.4 trillion
Posted on September 24, 2013 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 24-Sep-2013 UN-backed report, ‘Economics of Land Degradation,’ debuts at world desertification conference, Namibia Adopting proven sustainable land management practices […] -
Rising use of wastewater in forecast but world lacks data on ‘massive potential resource’
Posted on September 5, 2013 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 5 Sept. 2013 UN-backed study says annual treated wastewater in North America roughly equals volume of Niagara Falls; less […] -
Scientists sequence genome of high-value grape, seek secrets of wine’s aroma
Posted on September 2, 2013 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – BIOLAC (Biotechnology for Latin America and the Caribbean) 2 Sept. 2013 Marking 25th year, UNU-BIOLAC also announces brokered breakthrough to diagnose widespread problem of syphilis with […] -
Harvard expert: “Agricultural innovation offers only path to feed Africa and the world”
Posted on June 3, 2013 | No CommentsHarvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge MA 3-Jun-2013 The world can only meet its future food needs through innovation, including biotechnology: Kenya-born Harvard prof. Calestous Juma […] -
Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbon
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsRockefeller University, New York / University of Helsinki 06 Jun 11 Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, U.S. and European researchers say in a new […] -
Former national leaders: Water a global security issue
Posted on May 22, 2011 | No CommentsInterAction Council / United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health 20 March 2011 Water as an “urgent security issue” tops the agenda this year for a council of […] -
Pollutants in aquifers may threaten future of Mexico’s fast-growing ‘Riviera Maya’
Posted on February 6, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 6 Feb 2011 Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant […] -
Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation
Posted on December 2, 2010 | No CommentsHarvard Kennedy School Cambridge,MA,USA 2-Dec-2010 Africa can feed itself. And it can make the transition from hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation. The startling assertions, in stark contrast […] -
Indigenous delegates to UN talks in Copenhagen debut video evidence, accounts of climate change
Posted on December 19, 2009 | No CommentsChristensen Fund, Palo Alto, California 3-Dec-09 A delegation of more than 20 indigenous teens, women, elders and shamen heading to historic Copenhagen climate talks today offered the world self-created video evidence […] -
‘Arid aquaculture’ among livelihoods promoted to relieve worsening pressure on world’s drylands
Posted on November 11, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 11-Nov-2008 “Arid aquaculture” using ponds filled with salty, undrinkable water for fish production is one of several options experts have proven to be an effective potential alternative […] -
Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
Posted on August 7, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 25-Jul-2008Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank among the greatest threats today to the preservation of precious […] -
Restoring soils vital to feed world, forestall climate change: experts
Posted on August 30, 2007 | No CommentsSoil Conservation Service of Iceland, Reykjavik, and United Nations University 30 Aug 07 Protecting soils claimed as an immediate fix to counter climate change; 150 world experts meet in Iceland […] -
Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
Posted on June 27, 2007 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 27 Jun 07 Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face […] -
Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
Posted on December 14, 2006 | No Comments14-Dec-2006 United Nations University Joint International Conference Algiers, Dec. 17-19 About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers Dec. 17-19 to advise shifts in world policies needed to […] -
Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
Posted on August 21, 2005 | No Comments21 Aug 05 WorldFish Centre Calling fisheries critical for nourishing the poor and for helping Africa cope with the health, economic and social devastation of problems like HIV and AIDS, […] -
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
Posted on June 16, 2005 | No Comments16 Jun 05 United Nations University Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. And a rising number of […]
![Global drought hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage in 2023-2025 UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Food, water, energy crises, human tragedies in 2023-2025 detailed in sweeping analysis Fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/22041e58-8e7a-4752-82a4-208e94cd15f3.grid-6x2-115x115.jpg)
![Rangelands’ ‘silent demise’ threatens climate, food, wellbeing of billions UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Bonn/Ulaanbaatar – Degradation of Earth’s extensive, often immense natural pastures and other rangelands due to overuse, misuse, climate change and biodiversity loss poses a severe […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-10.48.33 AM-115x115.png)
![Sand and dust storm frequency increasing in many world regions: UN United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Two billion tons of sand and dust, equal in weight to 350 Great Pyramids of Giza, enter the atmosphere every year; UNCCD experts […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Sand-storm-115x115.png)
![Invasive Alien Species: Major Global Threats to Nature, Economies, Food Security, Human Health IPBES, Bonn, Germany Key role in 60% of global plant and animal extinctions; Annual costs now >$423 Billion – have quadrupled every decade since 1970; Report provides evidence, tools and […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-115x115.jpg)
![World “at a crossroads” in management of droughts, up 29% in a generation United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating mitigation must be done “urgently, using every tool we […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Low-Res_at-scale-restoration-new-and-restored-areas.png-115x115.png)
![Chronic land degradation: UN report offers stark warnings, remedies United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Up to 40 % of the planet’s land is degraded, directly affects half of humanity, threatens roughly half of global GDP (US$44 trillion); […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/tree-nurseries-115x115.png)
![UN: 500 million live in 19 African nations deemed water insecure United Nation University Institute for Water, Environment & Health 1st assessment of water security in Africa is based on 10 indicators Despite global Sustainable Development Goals and commitments made in […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-21-at-11.28.14-AM-115x115.png)
![50% more wildfires foreseen by 2100; Governments are not prepared: UN UN Environment Programme Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, faces rising wildfire risk; Wildfires and climate change are “mutually exacerbating”; Governments are called to radically shift their investments to […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Wildfires-report-cover-115x115.png)
![In the news, 2021: Our clients’ most noted science news releases of the year Terry Collins & Assoc., Toronto Of the 18 science news releases produced in 2021, 16 were environment-themed: food waste, e-waste, oceans, biodiversity, dams, and floods. And one announced 14 living […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-9.56.03-PM-115x115.png)
![IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services) Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, have combined and increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods and […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/New-cover-115x115.png)
![UN: 17% of all food available at consumer levels is wasted United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Paris Wasted in 2019: 931 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and other food services; Study finds food waste is a global, […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/gida-atigi-sorunu-alarm-veriyor_1-115x115.jpg)
![Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report UN Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature’s accelerating decline Final report card on Aichi Biodiversity Targets, set […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/09_Pongo-abelii-Joel-Sartore-National-Geographic-Photo-Ark_2749735-115x115.jpg)
![Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams UN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/treatment-plant-wastewater-2826988_640-115x115.jpg)
![Experts warn booming seaweed industry United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Beyond sushi wrap: Expanding number of valuable uses drives astonishing growth of seaweed farming; Experts urge burgeoning industry […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Farming-Pyropia-Nori-in-Korea-1-credit-Gwang-Hoon-115x115.jpg)
![Innovation and Its Enemies: How the history of margarine and tractors can inform policy making Harvard Kennedy School / Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge MA 6 July 2016 Why important innovations stall; Understanding obstacles to change key to timely adoption of technologies […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Innovation-and-its-enemies-115x115.jpg)
![Pollinators Vital to Our Food Supply Under Threat IPBES, Bonn / Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia 26 Feb 2016 Assessment Details Options for Safeguarding Pollinators Kuala Lumpur – 26 February, 2016 – […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Apis-mellifera-John-Severns-115x115.jpg)
![Vast energy value in human waste United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health — Hamilton, Canada 3 Nov 2015 Safe, systematic collection of human waste in low-resource countries could yield valuable fuels, invaluable […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/102210-115x115.jpg)
![World loses trillions of dollars worth of nature’s benefits each year due to land degradation UN University – INWEH, Hamilton, Canada 15-SEP-2015 To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the world, experts have assessed the value of ecosystem services provided by […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Indonesian-land-clearing-credit-GIZ-Andreas-König-115x115.jpg)
![Investing ~3.5% GDP in science, technology, innovation: benchmark for sustainable development UNSG’s Scientific Advisory Board Paris 9 July 2015 UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board calls for advisor, not observer seat for science at leaders’ policy-making table; recommends science test for pending policy […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/8800589580_7c2c0a235f_q-115x115.jpg)
![World losing 2,000 hectares of farm soil daily to salt damage United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton CANADA 28-Oct-2014 Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20 percent of all irrigated lands — an area equal to France; Extensive costs include $27 […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/photo-115x115.png)
![Indigenous knowledge: preserving biodiversity, ecosystem services UN Intergov’l Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bonn 8 December 2013 IPBES experts cite importance of ‘co-production’ of information with indigenous people With the planet losing species 100 […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/65661_web-115x115.jpg)
![Economic rewards of better land management: Estimated 2.3 billion tons of crops worth $1.4 trillion United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 24-Sep-2013 UN-backed report, ‘Economics of Land Degradation,’ debuts at world desertification conference, Namibia Adopting proven sustainable land management practices […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jordan-goat-hero-115x115.jpg)
![Rising use of wastewater in forecast but world lacks data on ‘massive potential resource’ United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 5 Sept. 2013 UN-backed study says annual treated wastewater in North America roughly equals volume of Niagara Falls; less […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wasterwater-115x115.jpg)
![Scientists sequence genome of high-value grape, seek secrets of wine’s aroma United Nations University – BIOLAC (Biotechnology for Latin America and the Caribbean) 2 Sept. 2013 Marking 25th year, UNU-BIOLAC also announces brokered breakthrough to diagnose widespread problem of syphilis with […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/60978_web-115x115.jpg)
![Harvard expert: “Agricultural innovation offers only path to feed Africa and the world” Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge MA 3-Jun-2013 The world can only meet its future food needs through innovation, including biotechnology: Kenya-born Harvard prof. Calestous Juma […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/FOOD_AFRICA-115x115.jpg)
![Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbon Rockefeller University, New York / University of Helsinki 06 Jun 11 Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, U.S. and European researchers say in a new […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Forest-density-115x115.jpg)
![Former national leaders: Water a global security issue InterAction Council / United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health 20 March 2011 Water as an “urgent security issue” tops the agenda this year for a council of […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/download-115x115.jpeg)
![Pollutants in aquifers may threaten future of Mexico’s fast-growing ‘Riviera Maya’ United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 6 Feb 2011 Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Sinkhole-or-“cenotes”-provide-a-potential-route-for-contamination-of-the-flooded-underground-cave-system-aquifers-of-the-Yucatan-Peninsula.-Credit-Hanneke-van-Lavieren-UNU-115x115.jpg)
![Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge,MA,USA 2-Dec-2010 Africa can feed itself. And it can make the transition from hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation. The startling assertions, in stark contrast […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/africacanfeed-115x115.jpg)
![Indigenous delegates to UN talks in Copenhagen debut video evidence, accounts of climate change Christensen Fund, Palo Alto, California 3-Dec-09 A delegation of more than 20 indigenous teens, women, elders and shamen heading to historic Copenhagen climate talks today offered the world self-created video evidence […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ANSA-pic-115x115.jpg)
![‘Arid aquaculture’ among livelihoods promoted to relieve worsening pressure on world’s drylands United Nations University 11-Nov-2008 “Arid aquaculture” using ponds filled with salty, undrinkable water for fish production is one of several options experts have proven to be an effective potential alternative […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/130327_UNCCDScC-115x115.jpg)
![Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops United Nations University 25-Jul-2008Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank among the greatest threats today to the preservation of precious […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/expedicao-pantanal-intecol-11-150-115x115.jpg)
![Restoring soils vital to feed world, forestall climate change: experts Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Reykjavik, and United Nations University 30 Aug 07 Protecting soils claimed as an immediate fix to counter climate change; 150 world experts meet in Iceland […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/download-3-115x115.jpeg)
![Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations United Nations University 27 Jun 07 Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/Nouakchott_SandDunes_NASA-115x115.jpg)
![Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification 14-Dec-2006 United Nations University Joint International Conference Algiers, Dec. 17-19 About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers Dec. 17-19 to advise shifts in world policies needed to […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/migrants-115x115.jpg)
![Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders 21 Aug 05 WorldFish Centre Calling fisheries critical for nourishing the poor and for helping Africa cope with the health, economic and social devastation of problems like HIV and AIDS, […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/08/fishworld081505_3-115x115.jpg)
![Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades 16 Jun 05 United Nations University Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. And a rising number of […]](https://www.terrycollinsassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/06/desertification-115x115.jpg)