NGOs aim to influence UN on environment and development
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National and international non-governmental organizations are preparing to air their positions during the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. More NGOs now believe that development sshould go hand in hand with environmental protection. They propose the concept of 'Primary Environmental Care' (PEC) which relates the fulfillment of man's basic needs with environmental care. The environmental problems that now exist have resulted in people awareness and has put progress in the right place.
Publication Name: Ceres
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0009-0379
Year: 1992
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Recipes for restoration
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Vietnam's government resettled many of its people living in the congested lowlands to the midland region at the start of 1961 to decrease population in the area and at the same time repopulate what was once a less inhabited region. However, the migration of lowlanders resulted in land degradation, barren hills and low harvest. The agro-ecosystem approach was thus conceived to facilitate better land use, stimulate water conservation and arrest soil erosion.
Publication Name: Ceres
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0009-0379
Year: 1992
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"A disaster for the environment, rural economies, food quality and food security."
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The 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is harmful for the environment and will jeopardize the health of third world populations, ruin the regional economy of underdeveloped nations and lead to a global trade imbalance. GATT's policy of promoting agricultural exports favors the richer nations that will receive the processed products produced from the raw commodities from poorer countries.
Publication Name: Ceres
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0009-0379
Year: 1995
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