Intensive farming makes future pandemics such as Covid-19 more likely as wild animals carrying diseases known to infect humans are forced into increasingly close contact with us, a research report showed on Wednesday.

Writing in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from University College London (UCL) warned that animal pathogens are increasingly likely to make the leap to humans as land-use changes benefit animal hosts.

The UN estimates that three-quarters of land on Earth has been severely degraded by human activity since the start of the industrial era.

NOUS, représentants de gouvernement, agences intergouvernementales, centres de recherche, organisations de la société civiles et experts fonciers, réunis à l’occasion du Forum foncier Afrique virtuel organisé par la Coalition Internationale pour l’Accès à la Terre (ILC Afrique) en collaboration avec la Commission de l’Union Africaine et l’Autorité Intergouvernementale pour le Développement (IGAD) sur le thème : réaliser l’agenda 2063 en promouvant la gouvernance foncière centrée sur les personnes en Afrique

• Top Indonesian ministers who pushed for the passage of a deregulation bill that benefits the mining and “dirty energy” industry have links to some of those very companies, a new report shows.
• The report by a coalition of NGOs highlights “massive potential for conflicts of interest” in the drafting and passage of the so-called omnibus bill on job creation.
• Under the new law, coal companies can qualify for an exemption from paying royalties, as well as be absolved of criminal and financial sanctions for mining in forest areas.
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Source: Lecourrier.Vn

Date: 09/05/2020

Le smog dû aux incendies de forêt en Indonésie pourrait compliquer les efforts de ce pays dans sa lutte contre la pandémie de COVID-19, car son gouvernement n'a pas de plan d'urgence pour d'autres maladies respiratoires, ont averti les experts indonésiens de la santé le 8 mai.

Par: Fatma Ben Hamad

Source: France24

Date: 21/04/2020

Date: 14/04/2020

Source: 20 minutes