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Why are some communities more vulnerable to hunger and famine? There are many reasons, which together add up to food insecurity, the world’s no.1 health risk. Watch this video from the British Red Cross Seeds of Change campaign to find out what...
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A Grantham Special Lecture by Professor Martin Parry, Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London Climate change could lead to hundreds of millions of people being at risk of hunger by the middle of this century. T...
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We developed this short video as a way of communicating an important message in a simple way – our food system is broken. We need to fix it. Our central issue today is not the global financial crisis but whether we can produce enough food for c...
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Charles Godfray is Hope Professor at Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In this talk he explores ...
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Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services are critical in the aftermath of emergencies such as natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and violence. In this E4C Webinar, Daniele Lantagne, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ...
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In 2012, Land Rover built their 1 millionth ‘Discovery’ vehicle. To commemorate this they embarked on the ‘Journey of Discovery’, to raise £1 million for an International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies wat...
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Thelma Tazviwana is a member of the Health Club in Dotito Primary School, Mount Darwin. Children are the best change agents at both home and in the community. Red Cross Red Crescent believe that if we target the children, they will in turn bring chan...
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The Spanish Red Cross has deployed a water and sanitation team to one of the affected areas in the Philippines. One of their main mission is to provide safe drinking water to the population.
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Recurring seasonal floods in Cambodia function as “silent disasters”—low-profile crises that rarely make global headlines but severely undermine rural livelihoods, destroy rice paddies, and exacerbate chronic food insecurity and stu...