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Myanmar Farmers May Miss Harvest
(Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/world/asia/16myanmar.html?r=1&hp&oref=slo gin By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: May 16, 2008 YANGON, Myanmar Normally, at this time of year, Burmese farmers in the southern delta of Myanmar would be draining their rice paddies, plowing ...
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Art Lerner-Lam, Seven Questions, When Disaster Strikes
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?storyid=4313 Another week, another deadly natural disaster. China is struggling to dig survivors out from its worst natural disaster in three decades, and Burma's cyclone death toll continues to spiral ...
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PHILIPPINES - Collaborative approach helps survivors of Typhoon Fengshen
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MANILA, 4 July 2008 (IRIN) The Philippines government, international community, and local private sector all provided assistance in response to Fengshen, the first major typhoon to hit the Philippines this year. "The Philippines' response collectively has been very good ...
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Natural Disasters Becoming More Frequent
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Ben Block on July 14, 2008 Source: Worldwatch Institute The trend of more frequent global natural disasters continues, due to an onslaught of weatherrelated crises in the first half of 2008. The total number of disasters as of June 30, 2008 ...
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natural, climate, change, blog
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ASIA - Natural disasters spur regional cooperation
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BANGKOK, 29 July 2008 (IRIN) A sense of urgency after several natural disasters has propelled AsiaPacific nations into drawing up "concrete, practical" plans for cooperation in disaster management, a senior regional official has said. The Association of Southeast ...
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New CARE Report Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change
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http://www.careclimatechange.org/careclimatechange.org/eventsactivities/new report Humaninduced climate change is affecting patterns of extreme weather across the globe, resulting in higher risk of humanitarian disasters. This is especially true in areas where there already are high levels of human vulnerability concludes a new ...
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PAKISTAN High-tech survey tool offers new hope to disaster-hit communities
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79760 KARACHI, 12 August 2008 (IRIN) The sight of humanitarian assessment teams moving through calamityhit villages and punching data into small, handheld computers as they interview villagers may soon become routine in Pakistan ...
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DJIBOUTI, Food and water shortages escalate
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79548 NAIROBI, 31 July 2008 (IRIN) Recurrent droughts, in addition to rising food and kerosene prices, have exacerbated food insecurity in the Horn of Africa country of Djibouti, according to a senior UN official. "The people ...
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Conflict compromising tsunami reconstruction
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SRI LANKA http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79567 COLOMBO, 1 August 2008 (IRIN) Resurgent clashes between Sri Lankan government forces and the Tamil Tigers have hampered tsunami reconstruction in the north and east and affected the livelihoods of 2.5 ...
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New money to mitigate disaster Southern Africa
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79436 JOHANNESBURG, 24 July 2008 (IRIN) In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction ...
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