UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 2012 (IPS) – When the United Nations commemorates World Toilet Day next week, there will be a lingering question in the minds of activists: how best can water and sanitation be given high priority in the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the U.N. s post-2015 economic agenda?
Water and sanitation are basic human rights that underpin health, education and livelihoods. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS.
Dr. Jennifer Platt, sustainability director at WASH Advocates in Washington, told IPS that World Toilet Day on Nov. 1…
An Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the dengue virus, feeding. Credit: jentavery/CC-BY-2.0
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 10 2013 (IPS) – Mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever need clean, still water and warm night temperatures to reproduce and thrive. That is common knowledge, but now scientists in Brazil have managed to measure the relation between increased rainfall and temperatures and the risk of dengue epidemics in this city.
A at the National School of Public Health in Rio, titled Temporal analysis of the relationship between dengue and meteorological variables in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001-2009 and published in the journal Cadernos de …
Children in India’s southern city Mangalore promote demonstrations of guppy fish feeding on mosquito eggs. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS.
MANGALORE, Apr 25 2014 (IPS) – Thirteen-year-old Sampreeth Monteiro’s neighbours are suddenly taking his advice seriously. “Buy a Guppy fish, it will eat all the mosquito eggs in your house. You will not get malaria again.”
Last month the St Aloysius’ high school in Mangalore city of southern India where Monteiro studies, launched a “Guppy movement” an anti-malaria campaign in collaboration with the Mangalore City Corporation. The campaign aims to control malaria using natural means – such as the Guppy fish.“Buy a Gup…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 7 2020 (IPS) – In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The African Green Revolution Forum claims AGRA is the “world’s most important and impactful forum for African agriculture”.
The – to reduce food insecurity by half in at least 20 countries, to double the incomes of 20 million smallholder families by 2020, and to ensure at least 15 countries achieve and sustain a Green Revolution – have been to “increase the incomes and improve food security for 30 million farming households in 11 African countries by 2021”.
Jomo Kwame Su…