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Environmental
health: Lead exposure and its impacts on children |
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Lead
pollution is one of the most important problems of environmental
and occupational origin and is widely regarded as a risk to health.
Lead accumulates in the blood, bones and soft tissues and affects
the kidneys, liver, nervous system and blood forming organs. The
residence times of lead in the body are estimated at 35 days in
blood, 40 days in soft tissues, 3-4 years in trabecular bone and
16-20 years in cortical bone.....more.... |
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The
Agreement on Agriculture (AOA): Pakistan’s Experience |
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The
debate on poverty-environment nexus generally concludes that environment
matters greatly to the people living in poverty. This issue itself
speaks of livelihoods, health and vulnerability of the poverty
stricken people. In essence, this should be the principal message
coming out of this debate that there is a need to bring this issue
to the forefront....more.... |
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Corporate
Agriculture Farming: Damaging interests of small farmers |
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The
policy package for Corporate Agriculture Farming (CAF) approved
by the Musharraf cabinet has been a matter of great controversy
within the government circles, civil society organizations and
small farmers’ groups. It claims that the policy would bring
foreign investors, latest machinery and new methods of cultivation
in the country. This would increase agricultural production and
improve its quality.....more..... |
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Market
access and organic farming |
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Either
there are no buyers in the market, or God has bestowed upon us
his bounties that still we hold stock of wheat from previous years.
This year again, there is a bumper harvest, where will it go?
Not only the wheat stocks but also bulk of cotton and heaps of
rice are in godowns. We have to find out reasons as to why we
could not off load our stocks despite concessions like low tariffs,
binding for every country to import some of the agricultural products
for domestic consumption from other countries under the Agreement
on Agriculture (AoA) and an edge of being a preferential and differential
country status, acknowledging our role in the war against terrorism....more... |
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Child
Labor: Break the vicious circle of poverty and illiteracy |
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Every
morning, 15 year-old Serab Gul leaves his home for one and half-hour
ride, changing two public transport vehicle on the way, to Islamabad.
However, unlike other boys of his age, who travel from the outskirts
of the city to go to school, Serab's journey ends at the car
parking area of the Banking and Commercial complex at Islamabad’s
Diplomatic Enclave. The bag on his shoulder does not contain
books, but boxes of caustic, and often abrasive detergent powder
and a brush. He comes here to wash cars for which he earns about
one hundred rupees for a single day’s job....more.... |
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Knowledge
production face to face with sustainable development |
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The
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is said to represent
a pioneering effort in private-public partnerships. The initiative
is funded by the World Bank, sponsored by a Rs. 500 million government
endowment, and is being run almost entirely by the private sector....more.... |
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In
Retrospect |
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Regional
seminar on Policies for the Protection of Farmers’ Rights:
Evolving sui generis Options for the Hindu-Kush Himalayas |
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South
Asia Watch on Trade, Economic and Environment (SAWTEE) together
with International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
(ICIMOD), organised a three-day regional seminar on “Policies
for the Protection of Farmers’ Rights in Mountain Regions:
Evolving sui generis Options for the Hindu-Kush Himalayas (HKH)”
in Kathmandu, Nepal from 24-26 March 2003.....more.... |
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Training
of SMART-1 Provincial Module for EPAs of NWFP, Sindh and Balochistan |
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A
team from the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
went to the Environment Protection Agencies (EPAs) in Peshawar,
Karachi and Quetta during April 14-19 to help them install the
Self Monitoring and Reporting Tools (SMART-1) Provincial Module
and to train their officials on the working of the module. The
SMART Provincial Module/software (on CD) was also handed over
to the focal persons appointed for respective EPAs. The directors
general of EPA Sindh and Balochistan took keen interest in the
training program....more... |
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Josh
Billings has rightly said that there is nothing so easy to learn
as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Through the training
arrangements we genuinely try to open up vistas of experience
sharing and help trainees to apply these learning as per their
professional requisitions....more.... |
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