The looming tobacco epidemic and its potential for thwarting development has prompted most governments in sub-Saharan Africa to ratify the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC).
Founded in 1999, Mining Watch Canada (MWC) is a coalition of 18 Canadian environmental, social justice, church, first nations and labour organizations.
Research on the links between tobacco farming and health problems among men, women, and children in Bangladesh will examine the health and socio-economic impact of tobacco cultivation.
The agricultural sector in developed countries still out-performs its counterpart in most developing economies. However, new technologies hold great promise for correcting the imbalance.
In the Okavango Delta, Botswana, flood-recession farming (molapu) is a lucrative but highly risky farming practice.
This grant will allow Development Workshop (DW) to document the environmental burden in urban areas of Angola, and analyse the differences in poverty and vulnerability between the capital (Luanda) and selected second- and third-tier cities.
Extensive areas of sub-Saharan and especially East Africa, are particularly vulnerable to the long-term consequences of climate change and the short-term increase in climate variability.
The municipalities of Zaruma and Portovelo on the Puyango River (Ecuador) are the site of many small- and medium-sized gold mines.
Bangladesh is a signatory to the World Health Organization's global health treaty on tobacco control, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The FCTC is the world's first public health treaty.
This project aims to reduce the negative effects of agricultural activity so that agriculture can benefit health and good health can benefit agriculture.