• Today, I want to describe the achievements of the past year, according to each of the "triple billion" targets in the Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019-2023, through the stories of some of those people. (who.int)
  • Dr Fiona Braka, Team Leader, Emergency Program visiting the Bulengo camp in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on November 10, 2023. (who.int)
  • Dr Fiona Braka, Team Leader, Emergency Program in a meeting at the Goma sub-office in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on November 10, 2023. (who.int)
  • Between 8000 and 10 000 years ago, groups of people found a more permanent solution through agriculture, setting up farms to produce their local food supply. (futurelearn.com)
  • Until about 8000 years ago humans relied on hunting and gathering for food, and burning wood to keep warm. (open.edu)
  • Only 300 years on, in 1850, due to deforestation and the resulting collapse of the natural and agricultural systems on the island, the population fell to 100 people. (informaction.org)
  • In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and the plans to mitigate climate change, researchers at the University of Massachusetts recently announced that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is 10 to 1,000 times greater than pre-agricultural erosion rates. (farms.com)
  • These newly discovered pre-agricultural rates, which reflect the rate at which soils form, are orders of magnitude lower than the upper allowable limit of erosion set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). (farms.com)
  • Our median pre-agricultural erosion rate across all the sites we sampled is 0.04 mm per year,' says Larsen. (farms.com)
  • European Origin Fig. 5 -10: In the Anatolian hearth theory, Indo-European originated in Turkey around 2, 000 years before the Kurgans and diffused through agricultural expansion. (slidetodoc.com)
  • Government has signed contracts with Belarus and John Deere for the supply of agriculture mechanisation equipment worth US$100 million, as it moves to close Zimbabwe's mechanisation gap that is estimated to be falling short of about 543 000 agricultural implements. (zimbabwesituation.com)
  • Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Vangelis Haritatos told The Herald Business that Government is at advanced stages for the sourcing of agricultural implements from the two financiers and is expecting to start receiving 1 000 tractors from next week. (zimbabwesituation.com)
  • Mechanisation is certainly a huge problem that we have got in Zimbabwe because we have 33 000 tractors, 500 000 combine harvesters and 10 000 planters in deficit so we need to cover that deficit quickly for us to grow the agricultural sector," he said. (zimbabwesituation.com)
  • Humankind evolved from being a wandering hunter-gatherer to becoming a settled farmer involved in agricultural practices over 10 000 years ago. (enviresearchfoundation.org)
  • The eighties and nineties brought a long period of recession for African agriculture, with low prices and massive dumping of agricultural surpluses from the EU and the US that cut out local farmers from domestic markets. (lu.se)
  • Méthodologie: Entre septembre 2021 et février 2022, des écouvillonnages oropharyngés et/ou nasopharyngés de travailleurs symptomatiques COVID-19 et apparemment en bonne santé sélectionnés consécutivement du site minier de Wahgnion dans le sud-ouest du Burkina Faso qui ont consenti à l'étude ont été prélevés selon les deux programme de quart de semaines et testé pour le SRAS-CoV-2 à l'aide d'un test RT-PCR. (bvsalud.org)
  • India has now been for fully twenty years under the direct administration of the Queen and Parliament. (marxists.org)
  • The twenty years which have since passed have been, so far as the internal condition of India is concerned a period of more than Roman peace. (marxists.org)
  • A la carte" baby business is predicted to be worth 46 billion dollars in India alone around the year 2020 according to a Princeton University study published in 2015. (oneofus.eu)
  • Consider Bolu Rambhav Omble, a 65-year-old labourer from Pune, in India. (who.int)
  • Even for Indo-European, it is not universally accepted [that languages spread via agriculture]. (discovermagazine.com)
  • In short, war and conquest spread language Fig. 5 -9: In the Kurgan theory, Proto-Indo-European diffused from the Kurgan hearth north of the Caspian Sea, beginning about 7, 000 years ago. (slidetodoc.com)
  • When DNA sequencing was worth 1 billion dollars only 10 years ago, it only costs 1 000$/genome in the US today. (oneofus.eu)
  • This analysis, which marks 22 years since the publication of the first Typhi genome, represents the largest Typhi genome sequence collection to date (n=13,000). (cdc.gov)
  • Pakistan also imported $2.1 billion worth of iron, steel and scrap in the first 7 months (July 2020- January 2021) of the current fiscal year. (riazhaq.com)
  • Construction boom helped Pakistan grow its domestic cement consumption by 17% in the first 7 months (July 2020-January 2021) of the current fiscal year. (riazhaq.com)
  • It further said that with the industries operating at its full capacity, there has been a significant increase in the exports and the exports reached to $2.3 billion in December 2020, highest in seven years. (riazhaq.com)
  • There has also been the lowest rise in the external debt in the financial year 2020 and that the loans taken by the present government were used to retire the ones taken by the previous governments. (riazhaq.com)
  • Métodos: De septiembre 2019 a febrero 2020, y de abril 2021 hasta agosto del mismo año, se monitoreó la fenología de 12 individuos de cada especie. (bvsalud.org)
  • Methods: From September 2019 to February 2020, and from April 2021 to August of the same year, the phenology of 12 individuals of each species was monitored. (bvsalud.org)
  • The proliferation and popularity of blogs and social media have provided platforms for both new and veteran voices in the world of sustainable agriculture, climate change and ethical food production to disseminate their news and views globally. (thefoodiebugle.com)
  • During his time, the charity's offices grew from a staff of 5 to over 180, income rose from £200 000 to £10 million and sales of organic produce rose from £50 million to £2 billion in the UK. (thefoodiebugle.com)
  • Direct income from the program is estimated to have reached €31 million during the almost five years that the program has been in effect. (err.ee)
  • We earned only some VND60,000 ($3) that day, but Minoru and I were elated, though we spent VND2 million in travelling and accommodation fees," Vo Mai Hao, Minoru's first partner recalled. (tuoitrenews.vn)
  • World population rose from some 5 million 10 000 years ago, through 1 billion in the 19th century to 6.5 billion in 2005. (open.edu)
  • Domestic cement sales rose to 27.65 million tons in this period, while exports grew by 10.23% to 5.71million tons from 5.186 million tons in the same period last year. (riazhaq.com)
  • The total cement sales (local and exports) were 33.36 million tons, up 15.77% over the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. (riazhaq.com)
  • In spite of the progress made with the use of mosquito nets, malaria continues to kill nearly one million people each year on our continent and it is still on our continent that one out of two inhabitants has no access to drinking water, despite the recent commitment made on 26 July this year by the United Nations to make the right to water a natural right. (who.int)
  • Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that about 1.5 million teenagers from 15 through 17 years old work in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • More than 2.4 million people have been displaced to the east of the country, and over 34,000 cases of cholera have been recorded in North Kivu since January of this year. (who.int)
  • Humans lived like this over millions of years up until the dawn of agriculture and husbandry, roughly 10 000 years ago. (neilstrauss.com)
  • Over the past 200, 000 years, humans have biologically adapted best to whole foods: plants, meat, seafood-all of them packed with the nutrients our bodies evolved to thrive on. (wdettv.org)
  • Agriculture came on the scene a mere 10, 000 years ago-a tiny fraction of our evolutionary history-and there simply hasn't been enough time and evolutionary pressure for humans to completely adapt to eating modern foods like wheat, sugar, chemically processed vegetable and seed oils, and other "Neolithic" foods. (wdettv.org)
  • El Yunque Rainforest is an ecological region of 28 000 acres which lies on the eastern side of Puerto Rico, surrounded by heavily urbanized areas and housed with cement structures. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • PL 107-365 passed in 2002, enabled the appropriation of three pristine rivers to be managed by the Department of Interior and its branch agency, Fish and Wildlife, while PL 109-118, amply supported by Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, was passed in 2005 and added 10 000 additional acres to US agencies management. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • As two and a half acres serve one hundred fifty members, so two to three hundred acres could serve ten thousand members. (ecotopia.org)
  • On Wednesday WHO officially launched our Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for 2021 which outlines six objectives and the ten essential pillars of the response. (bvsalud.org)
  • For the first time in history, visitors to the Serbia Pavilion can interact with the authentic, mobile and responsive 3D face of a man who genuinely lived in prehistoric times and died on the banks of the River Danube over 10,000 years ago. (euronews.com)
  • Hot Tip: Check out the Chronology of Creativity, charting over 10,000 years of inventions and artistry on Serbian soil. (euronews.com)
  • However, the idea that agriculture needs to be more perennial is a dramatic shift from the way farming has been practiced in the last 10,000 years, meaning that significant uncertainties and challenges remain. (lu.se)
  • However, when they returned to Vietnam after five years, they couldn't apply their learned techniques as farmers didn't trust them. (tuoitrenews.vn)
  • There is a mystery kidney disease that for years has been killing thousands of farmers in Sri Lanka's rice basket - and as it spreads, locals are becoming increasingly fearful. (independent.co.uk)
  • In addition, the number of farmers planting such crops grew by 2m to reach 12m globally, with nine out of ten being resource-poor. (soci.org)
  • Already those farmers who began adopting biotech crops a few years ago are beginning to see socio-economic advantages compared to their peers who haven't adopted the crops. (soci.org)
  • Zimbabwean farmers were mechanised and produced 10 ton per ha before Zanu kicked them off the land. (zimbabwesituation.com)
  • Claverie, inspired by Russian scientists who in 2012 revived a wildflower from a 30,000-year-old seed tissue, attempted to resurrect viruses that target only amoebas. (gulfnews.com)
  • In 2014, the French researcher and his team made a virus from the permafrost infectious for the first time in 30,000 years. (gulfnews.com)
  • Needless to say, 2018 was an incredible year. (who.int)
  • Regardless of debt servicing of about US $10 billion annually, the foreign exchange reserves have reached about US $ 20 billion, highest since January 2018. (riazhaq.com)
  • The budget of Ehsaas program has been doubled if compared with that of the year 2018. (riazhaq.com)
  • I speculated that l0,000 social security recipients would be well served with a box of organic produce every week in season and even if it took ten years to accomplish, the current model would serve as a reference point. (ecotopia.org)
  • Santa Cruz, as ecotopia, over the next five years, becomes a national and international center for the embodiment of this vision of superabundance based on an economy of gift, illustrated by the abundance of organic production. (ecotopia.org)
  • At his Niconicoyasai farms in the Central Highlands province of Dac Lac, Shiokawa Minoru, a 30-year-old Japanese environmental engineer, grows "smiling vegetables": organic and healthy produce that has increasingly gained consumers' trust. (tuoitrenews.vn)
  • Nine years ago, the young man came to Vietnam to teach Japanese to those taking part in one of Japan's non-profit projects on organic agriculture in Dac Lac province. (tuoitrenews.vn)
  • A number of local youths were also selected to study organic agriculture in Japan. (tuoitrenews.vn)
  • During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000-100 000 years, along with associated cultural evolution and inter-population contact and conflict, there have been several major transitions in the relationships of Homo sapiens with the natural world, animate and inanimate. (nih.gov)
  • Traces of pathogens have been found preserved in permafrost in the past several years. (gulfnews.com)
  • The number of businesses established by e-residents has skyrocketed over the past two years, during which time over 7,000 businesses were established. (err.ee)
  • Of course, to summarize all of WHO's achievements from the past year is an impossible task. (who.int)
  • Human activities, particularly agriculture and deforestation, however, have increased erosion rates, as they tend to remove the protective vegetation and reduce the stability of the soil. (informaction.org)
  • It has been estimated that total global soil erosion costs agriculture many hundreds of billions of US dollars every year. (informaction.org)
  • On deeper soils regular erosion losses may be maintained for 100 to 200 years without any obvious loss of productivity, however any regular loss of soil in excess of natural replacement rates is unacceptable as it means that significant damage is being done to one of our primary assets - the soil. (informaction.org)
  • When this galactic shrapnel slams into the Earth's crust, it splits oxygen in the soil apart, leaving tiny trace amounts of 10 Be, which can be used to precisely determine average erosion rates over the span of thousands to millions of years. (farms.com)
  • We brought this soil back to our lab at UMass, sifted it to isolate individual sand grains, removed everything that wasn't quartz, and then ran these few spoonfuls through a chemical purification process to separate out the 10 Be -which was just enough to fit on the head of a pin. (farms.com)
  • Patrick worked for the Soil Association from 1988 till 2010 and was its Director for fifteen years. (thefoodiebugle.com)
  • The Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture at Auburn University is seeking applications for the positio. (agu.org)
  • It's the permanently frozen (0°C or colder) layer of soil lying beneath the ground for more than two years. (gulfnews.com)
  • Karachi, September 25, 2019: Hilton Pharma, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of Pakistan, is launching a nationwide CSR initiative, 'Roshni say Zindagi', to provide solar electricity to 10, 000 househol ds of marginalised rural communities throughout the country over a 3-year period. (thebizupdate.com)
  • 2. The 1996 Access supplement was administered for the full year (except as mentioned above) in all of the NHIS sample households interviewed with the old paper core using three-quarters of the sample households from January-June and one-half of the sample households from July-December. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from 1995 and 1996 can be combined with data from previous years, however, variances for 1995 and 1996 must be calculated separately from variances of previous years. (cdc.gov)
  • Archaeological evidence shows that the period represented the beginning of millet agriculture. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The results - which included radiocarbon dating of ancient crop remains - revealed that after appearing in the West Liao region, millet began to appear in the archaeological record first in Korea some 6,500 years ago, then in the far east of Russia about 5,000 years ago. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The current account has shown a surplus of US $1.6 billion during first five months of current financial year against a deficit of $1.7 billion in the corresponding period last year. (riazhaq.com)
  • In the last year alone he has travelled internationally 21 times, mobilising support and galvanising action from some of the world's leading and influential writers, campaigners, politicians and activists in the fields of conservation, biodynamic agriculture, renewable energy supply, compassion in world farming and environmental science. (thefoodiebugle.com)
  • A report published by the World Health Organisation two years ago could not find a clear cause for the disease, though it pointed to cadmium, pesticides and other factors, such as arsenic, as possibilities. (independent.co.uk)
  • In addition, in order to test the changing NHIS core questionnaire, for much of the year the sample was split between the old (paper) and the new (computerized) versions of the core questionnaire. (cdc.gov)
  • The labs develop and compare DNA patterns from bacterial pathogens submitted by state, Food and Drug Administration, and US Department of Agriculture laboratories from across the nation ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The aim of the project is to initiate a transdisciplinary platform for knowledge generation and development to advance perennial agriculture in the Swedish context. (lu.se)
  • It is now time to fulfill the spirit of ecotopia in a five year plan for the turn of the millennia. (ecotopia.org)
  • Some time ago planners and planning departments thought that barn conversions were a good idea. (mybarnconversion.com)
  • At the same time, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics revealed that the nation's steel imports rose by 18% year-over-year. (riazhaq.com)
  • As we have come to know more recently, by the time these early cases appeared, infection must have already been spreading for some years. (who.int)
  • This current crisis comes at a time after years of conflict when there is now a real opportunity for peace in Yemen. (bvsalud.org)
  • The study, which appears in the journal Geology , makes use of a rare element, beryllium-10, or 10 Be, that occurs when stars in the Milky Way explode and send high-energy particles, called cosmic rays, rocketing toward Earth. (farms.com)
  • Resultados: La riqueza estimada fue de 429 especies en 86 familias, la similitud no supera el 46 % entre unidades de muestreo, dato que apoya la heterogeneidad de Bijagual. (bvsalud.org)
  • Los resultados muestran que los cuestionarios CAGE y AUDIT fueran los más usados, y que la mayoría de los trabajadores estudiados estaban en el sector de servicios, con pocos estudios en otros sectores. (bvsalud.org)
  • some villages report it causes as many as 10 deaths a month. (independent.co.uk)
  • Whether a small business owner or a salaried worker barely making Rs50,000 a month from two jobs, many aren't sure what happened to the economy, but they do know political instability has a lot to do with the mess the country is in where politicians are least bothered about the concerns of the masses. (dawn.com)
  • I make Rs29,000 a month and my monthly grocery costs at least Rs25,000. (dawn.com)
  • If I was earning Rs30,000 a month 10 years ago, I was comfortable, but now even Rs150,000 a month from two jobs feels less because of the rates of essential items increasing rapidly. (dawn.com)
  • Or El Salvador, which just a month ago passed a new law to integrate health services, introduce innovative health financing, increase access to primary health care and improve regulation of the medicines agency. (who.int)
  • The land area devoted to GM crops worldwide grew by 12% , or 12.3m hectares, to reach 114.3m hectares in 2007, the second highest increase over the last five years. (soci.org)
  • We discuss if a transition to cultivation of perennial crops - a potential paradigm shift in agriculture - could be a multifunctional solution to many of the problems faced by the current food production system. (lu.se)
  • The research on perennial crops began about 30 years ago and has been growing ever since. (lu.se)
  • In recent years, rapid progress has been made in the development of perennial varieties of important grain and oil crops. (lu.se)
  • The importance of agriculture cannot be under-estimated, yet with the development of chemicals to promote the growth of crops comes the increased potential to cause wider environmental harm. (enviresearchfoundation.org)
  • Last year Niger and other countries in the Sahel were threatened by famine. (lu.se)
  • Two years ago generous funding helped hold off famine. (bvsalud.org)
  • In France, 10 000 years ago, when agriculture starts to become predominant, individuals work collectively to prepare and consume meals, bringing more social cohesion. (yannboutique.com)
  • the work begins to make it a reality within five years, thus becoming a model for the nation based on computer modeling and image forecasting. (ecotopia.org)
  • So, if you work 10 hours, you can earn 100 Poundsday which is really a good amount. (corona-signs.de)
  • The total area to be flooded would be more than 3 000 square kilometres. (nzdl.org)
  • In 1975, the Grand Council of the Cree agreed to let the project proceed and, together with the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, signed the landmark James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, in return for some recognition of their territorial rights to a total of 410 000 square miles of land and the instigation of an environmental review process. (nzdl.org)
  • Total aid to agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa sank to a trickle - bearing in mind that this is the continent most affected by hunger and malnutrition. (lu.se)
  • Results: A total of 1506 (92.9% males) participants were recruited into the study, with mean age and age range of 37.1ï ±8.7 and 18-68 years respectively. (bvsalud.org)
  • The President has also identified agriculture as a catalyst for investments and economic growth that has the potential to stimulate exports, reduce poverty, create jobs and improve people's general livelihoods. (zimbabwesituation.com)
  • The deficit has to be covered in the next two to three years we have no option climatic change is upon us and we need to attain self-sufficiency as a country because agriculture is the back bone of our economy. (zimbabwesituation.com)
  • More so since researchers have resurrected several viruses from permafrost dating back more than 48,500 years, proving that prehistorical viruses can remain infectious. (gulfnews.com)
  • In 2012, French and Russian researchers found smallpox DNA in 300-year-old mummies from Siberia, a New England Journal of Medicine report said. (gulfnews.com)
  • The new optimism about Africa could prove unfounded as regards agriculture, warn the researchers in the Afrint group. (lu.se)
  • Last year it was revealed that another destructive experiment is on the way. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • Compared to last year, the number of active businesses created by e-residents are paying taxes in Estonia has grown 58 percent," Vatter said. (err.ee)
  • Drawn up in cooperation with specialists in various fields late last year, the e-Residency strategy 2.0 set the objective to foster growth of value in businesses created by e-residents instead of simply increasing the number of e-residence, and the new strategy is already delivering results. (err.ee)
  • Electricity bills have doubled in the last year and a half. (dawn.com)
  • Last year, I mentioned Kenya's ambitious plans to implement a new universal health coverage scheme, with support from WHO. (who.int)
  • Then Bolu discovered that he was eligible for surgery free of charge under India's new Ayushman Bharat insurance programme, which was launched last year, with support from WHO. (who.int)
  • We could tell similar stories from South Africa, which passed a National Health Insurance Bill last year. (who.int)
  • Or Egypt, which last year passed a new Universal Health Insurance Law: the new health insurance system, to be funded in part by a new tax on tobacco products. (who.int)
  • The Declaration of Astana on primary health care, endorsed by all 194 Member States last year, was a vital affirmation that there will be no universal health coverage without primary health care. (who.int)
  • Minoru's quality, healthy products thus fetch much higher prices than others on the local market, with a set of five kinds of vegetables costing VND140,000-200,000 (up to US$10). (tuoitrenews.vn)
  • Weekly inflation, measured by Sensitive Price Index, posted an increase of 32.57 per cent on a year-on-year basis ending Jan 26 due to a massive surge in prices of both food and non-food items, especially vegetables like onions, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. (dawn.com)
  • Posted: (3 days ago) Swaziland is a landlocked country located in southern Africa. (kraneks.by)
  • Africa, and African agriculture in particular, were regarded as a lost cause. (lu.se)
  • The group has monitored the development of agriculture in Africa since 2002. (lu.se)
  • Next year it may be southern Africa that is affected. (lu.se)
  • More than 110,000 people die from this disease each year, predominantly in areas of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with limited access to safe water and sanitation. (cdc.gov)
  • This sample was then sent to a lab which counted the individual 10 Be atoms, from which Larsen and his colleagues calculated a precise rate of erosion, stretching from the present day all the way back to the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. (farms.com)
  • Around 200 years ago, Swiss emigrants settled on the peninsula Samanà, in the Dominican Republic. (chocolat-suissa.com)
  • Reasonable intelligence suggests a confirmed minimum of 3 000 animals from a population estimated at 10 000 animals. (agriculture.gov.au)
  • Assurer une vaccination animale, éduquer la population en ce qui concerne les bonnes méthodes de pasteurisation du lait et de manipulation des produits carnés, et relever les niveaux de suivi de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments sont des éléments clés de la lutte contre la brucellose. (who.int)
  • It turned out he needed a knee replacement that would cost three times more than his entire family earns in a year. (who.int)
  • But Alexander Vovin, a linguist at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France, contends that language doesn't always spread with agriculture. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Can we correct a 10 000 year old mistake? (lu.se)
  • The emergence of technological societies in the 20th century resulted in an even larger increase in energy use for manufacturing, agriculture, transport and a host of other applications. (open.edu)
  • Since the PTI government took over, a Rs1,000 note feels like just Rs10. (dawn.com)
  • Passage-level positions start at 27,300 each year, while most experienced laborers make up to 30,284 each year. (corona-signs.de)
  • For example, when we started converting the barn an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) was a part the ill-fated, 'later-to-have-its-wings-clipped' HIPS home information pack scheme something for prospective house buyers - a few years later I needed one as part of the building control sign-off (Admittedly, I may well have missed the requirement for one at the start of the project - but I don't think so! (mybarnconversion.com)
  • Just a few hours ago Cote d'Ivoire received its first doses and more doses will be shipped to more countries in the coming days and weeks as we move towards our target of starting vaccination in all countries within the first 100 days of the year. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Hilton Pharma Group of companies, which was established more than five decades ago, is currently one of the largest pharmaceutical groups in Pakistan. (thebizupdate.com)
  • Futures: at least a 10 minute delay. (farms.com)
  • It's a jump of 18% from the same period in prior fiscal year. (riazhaq.com)
  • Firstly, we have not yet seen economic forces strong enough to spur technological developments in agriculture. (lu.se)