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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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In brief

News of the week

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Lesotho has introduced a minimum pension for all citizens aged 70 and more years.

Historical background

“An appropriate approach”

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by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
A Sidr survivor recalls the cyclone.

Adapting to climate change

The view from below

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by Hans Dembowski
Car traffic in Los Angeles: California has adopted ambitious emission-reduction targets.

Climate change

Building momentum

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by Jennifer Morgan

Gender

Robbing widows of their land

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by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki
Fish breeding ponds in Brazil: Aqua­culture has been spreading here since the 1990s.

Aquaculture

A trend towards ­organic fish

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by Angela Escosteguy

In brief

News of the week

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The growing global demand for meat can only be met by a sharp increase in industrialised intensive livestock farming. Poultry production in Mozambique.

Meat production

When table and trough compete

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by Barbara Unmüssig
by Christine Chemnitz
In Zambia, the goat business is still largely informal and does not contribute as much to farmers’ livelihoods as it could.

Livestock production

Profitable goats

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by Paul Nyambe
Conflict causes hunger: displaced persons having lunch in the Central African Republic last year.

UN

Hunger in numbers

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by Rebecca Renz