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FOOD SECURITY

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FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION, THE VERY BASIS OF OUR EXISTENCE. Food security as an idea began just in the mid-1970s, in the talks of food problems during a period of global food emergency. The underlying focal point of consideration was essentially on sustenance supply issues of guaranteeing the accessibility and to some degree, the value of security of basic foodstuffs at the global and national level. That supply-side, universal and institutional arrangement of concerns mirrored the changing association of the worldwide food economy that had developed problems before the emergency talks. A procedure of stakeholder collaboration and deliberation took after, prompting the World Food Conference of 1974, and another arrangement of institutional plans covering data, assets for advancing food security and discussions for exchange on strategy issues. Food Security is accomplished "when all individuals, consistently have physical and monetary access to satisfactory/adequate, pr

CLEAN WATER

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1 BILLION OF THE TOTAL GLOBAL POPULATION HAS NO ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER The importance of water cannot be emphasized further. The menace that has been water pollution affects and kills more human beings than any form of violence globally. This articulates the importance that water has on our lives. Sources of water that are  drinkable are only shrinking, diminishing the already 1% that is available. It is It is essential that drastic measures are taken to ensure that by 2050 when there shall be an increase of 30% of people needing freshwater, we shall have at least, catered for half that increase in demand. Studies were done on the aspect safe drinking water and the trends are worrying. For instance, most Americans have access to drinking water, but these tap sources have been determined to contain harmful pollutants such as Lead, Copper among others. This is exactly where water becomes polluted, at the point where contaminants make it unsafe for other uses, let alone human consumpti

CLIMATE FINANCE

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CLIMATE FINANCE. Climate Finance has been a core element of most climate change international agreements and was incorporated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [1992] . Climate Finance exists in the form of the developed countries pooling resources and assisting the less developed countries in dealing with effects of climate change. The consensus after the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit was that these developed countries shall be releasing upwards of 100 Billion Dollars from the year 2020 going forward. For starters, it was decided there would be a release of funds of up to 30 Billion Dollars going forward. So far, the industrialized nations have managed to generate the 30 Billion Dollars needed annually. However, there is still not yet a clear path on how the 100 Billion Dollar mark shall be reached. This is undoubtedly a concern since most of these countries never follow up on aid promises unless a robust framework is put in place to ensure t