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U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems [1]

After an 18-month buildup, a one-day U.N. Food Systems Summit earlier this fall generated hundreds of commitments to end global hunger and a dizzying array of alliances dedicated to the cause. Despite controversies surrounding the summit, this groundbreaking event highlighted opportunities for reporting on food and food systems. Award-winning agriculture journalist Chris Clayton shares his insights.

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Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [5]
Chemicals [6]
Climate Change [7]
Consumer [8]
Disasters [9]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [15]
Government [16]
Health [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Planning & Growth [22]
Policy [23]
Pollution [24]
Science [25]
Technology [26]
Waste [27]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [28]
California [29]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
International [32]
Canada [33]
Africa [34]
Europe [35]
Middle East [36]
South America [37]
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"As Madagascar Faces Climate-Linked Famine, UN Flags Need To Prepare" [39]

"With the African island nation suffering a food crisis driven by drought on a warming planet, WFP says it's an alarm bell on the need to step up protection for vulnerable people"

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [15]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [38]
Africa [34]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [41], 11/05/2021
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"Why No Tusks? Poaching Tips Scales Of Elephant Evolution" [42]

"Researchers say years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks."

Wildlife [43]
Public [38]
Africa [34]
Source: AP [44], 10/22/2021
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"Climate Report: Africa’s Rare Glaciers Soon To Disappear" [45]

"Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report warned Tuesday amid sweeping forecasts of pain for the continent that contributes least to global warming but will suffer from it most."

Climate Change [7]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [38]
Africa [34]
Source: AP [46], 10/20/2021
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"Madagascar Prays For Rain As U.N. Warns Of 'Climate Change Famine'" [47]

"This is the fourth year that drought has devastated Aly's home in southern Madagascar. Now more than one million people, or two out of five residents, of his Grand Sud region require emergency food aid in what the United Nations is calling a 'climate change famine."'

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [15]
Public [38]
Africa [34]
Source: Reuters [48], 10/12/2021
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The 9/11 Legacy — Fear Drew Curtain Over Environmental Information [49]

Twenty years after the attacks on 9/11, the war on terror has left many risks in the built environment under a cloak of secrecy. For WatchDog Opinion, keeping vital information about such preventable hazards under wraps from the public and journalists is not just wrong, but bad policy. Here’s why. Plus, a rundown for environment reporters of where exactly this secrecy reigns.

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Agriculture [4]
Air [51]
Chemicals [6]
Disasters [9]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [15]
Government [16]
Health [17]
Infrastructure [52]
Journalism & Media [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [53]
People & Population [21]
Policy [23]
Transportation [54]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [40]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [28]
California [29]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
International [32]
Africa [34]
Asia [55]
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"Madagascar Faces One Of The World's First Climate Change Famines" [56]

"As the African island nation experiences a food-security crisis driven by global warming, researchers say it is an alarm bell for the world."

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [15]
Public [38]
Africa [34]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [41], 09/08/2021
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Madagascar Headed Toward Climate Change-Linked Famine It Did Not Create [57]

"In Madagascar, hunger has already left people eating raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, even the very locusts that helped decimate crops. The southern part of the country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, with the World Food Program warning that 1.14 million people are food-insecure and 400,000 people are headed toward starvation."

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Food [15]
People & Population [21]
Public [38]
Africa [34]
Source: Washington Post [58], 07/08/2021
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Journalists Team Up To Continue Colleagues’ Work Exposing Mining Risks [59]

Environmental journalists around the world sometimes pay for their work with their freedom, safety or even their lives. The Forbidden Stories network continues the reporting of some of those journalists, and a team there recently produced an award-winning collaboration to investigate troubles at mining giants in Central America, South Asia and East Africa. “The Green Blood Project” in this month’s Inside Story.

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Activism [3]
Disasters [9]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [24]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [40]
Region: 
International [32]
Africa [34]
Asia [55]
Central America & the Caribbean [61]
Visibility: 
Public [38]
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"Sudan Asks U.N. Security Council To Meet Over Ethiopia's Blue Nile Dam" [62]

"Sudan asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to meet and discuss a dispute over a giant dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile, a government statement said."

Environmental Politics [14]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [38]
Africa [34]
Source: Reuters [63], 06/23/2021
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