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Prepaid Meters Scupper Gains Made in Accessing Water in Africa

By Jeffrey Moyo
While many countries appear to have met the U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, rights activists say that African countries which have taken to installing prepaid water meters have rendered a blow to many poor people, making it hard for them to access water.

Expo 2015 Host City Promotes Urban Food Policy Pact

By Maurizio Baruffi
How can we provide healthy food for everyone, without threatening the survival of our planet? This is the fundamental issue at the centre of Expo 2015 – which has ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’ as its central theme – and a huge challenge for cities. 

Humanitarian Aid Under Fire Calls for New Strategies

By Julia Rainer
In the face of the growing number of crises taking place at the same time worldwide, humanitarian aid organisations – many of which have already reached their financial and logistic limits – are in desperate need of global coordination.


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