Natural resources

Global grasslands are a source of biodiversity and provide a host of benefits to humans, including food production, water supply, and carbon storage. But their future looks bleak without action to halt their degradation…

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Natural resources

Africa has a huge wealth of natural resources. However, exploiting them without giving any consideration to social and environmental concerns is widespread. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Africa Foundation…

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Natural resources

The world’s consumption of raw materials is set to nearly double by 2060 as the global economy expands and living standards rise, placing twice the pressure on the environment that we are seeing today, according to a new…

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Conflicts between different herders in access to pastures and water holes  have to be carefully handled. <br/> Photo: Helvetas
Natural resources

The development organisation HELVETAS has compiled a fact sheet on natural resources and conflict.

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