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News Digest | April 2024

Embrace innovation ‘to make sustainable transport a reality for all’ COP28/Anthony Fleyhan The UN General Assembly’s Sustainability Week includes a High-level Meeting on Sustainable Transport, which highlights the pressing need to create a sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous future. To provide equitable access to sustainable transport, Assembly President Dennis Francis emphasizes the significance of innovation-driven strategies, especially

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Conquering Fear of Leaving Journalism to Fight Climate Change

Grassroots in Action, Podcast / diinsiderlife

Micro-entrepreneurs are the most common type of business in the world and this is especially the case in developing countries. Who are they? What do they do? And what motivates them? What are the challenges they are facing? Some of these answers might surprise you.

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Fighting Food Waste in an Era of Waste

Climate and Environment / diinsiderlife

According to FAO’s most recent estimates (2019), the amounts of food either lost or wasted range from 5–6 percent in Australia and New Zealand, to 20 – 21 percent in Central and Southern Asia. “The Asia and Pacific Region continues to lose and waste too much food.

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Invest in Impact for Myanmar’s Agriculture: The Corn Seed Program initiated by Taung Thu Ta Da

Uncategorized / diinsiderlife

By: Nan Hat Shang Kham Have you ever wondered how demanding the youths are for the agriculture sector in many countries around the world? With 88% of youths living in developing countries, youths make up ⅕ percentage of the population of developing countries, and ⅔ of them are from small farm households. According to

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Why Anti-Food Waste Law Is Necessary

In-depth Issues / diinsiderlife

On the 5th of May 2021, Youth With You, a trendy talent show where over 100 trainees compete with each other to win positions in an idol music band is suspended because of the milk-wasting controversy.

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How Community Pantries Spurred Collective Action in the Philippines

Grassroots Voices / diinsiderlife

What started out as a makeshift communal food station at the most populated city in the Philippines became a movement of solidarity across the country, in response to widespread hunger, job precarity, and inadequate government aid.

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Myanmar in triple peril: COVID-19, military coup, and hunger

In-depth Issues, Uncategorized / diinsiderlife

In 2015, world leaders created a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The second of these is to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture” by 2030.

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Struggles of Dhaka’s Street food Vendors to Survive During Pandemic

Grassroots Voices, In-depth Issues / diinsiderlife

A day in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, cannot be imagined without the delicious and mouthwatering assemblage of street foods. Endless unique flavours, easy accessibility and low price etc. have been playing a role to make street foods a center of attraction. People of all age groups and working class are fond of street foods.

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Earthier: Fighting Diabetes and Empowering Farmers

Grassroots Voices, In-depth Issues / diinsiderlife

Abhinandan Dhakal, a masters student of Environmental Economics from the University of York, wanted to make a social and environmental impact. He moved back to his hometown, nestled in the Himalayas, to pursue agricultural entrepreneurship.

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