Thursday, 14 July 2011
Can the Earth Feed a Population of 9 Billion People?
The Rational Optimist, looks at past rates of food production to explain why it should eventually be possible to produce enough food to feed a global population of 9 billion people. ----- Via trade and other cultural activities, "ideas have sex," and that drives human history in the direction of inconstant but accumulative improvement over time. The criers of havoc keep being proved wrong. A fundamental optimism about human affairs is deeply rational and can be reliably conjured with. Trained at Oxford as a zoologist and an editor at The Economist for eight years, Matt Ridley's newest book is The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. His earlier works include Francis Crick; Nature via Nurture; Genome; and The Origins of Virtue. - The Long Now Foundation Matt Ridley's books have sold over 800,000 copies, been translated into 27 languages and been short-listed for six literary prizes.
In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for Nature via Nurture. In 2006 he published Genome, a national bestseller. In 2007 he won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for Francis Crick. His most recent book, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, was published in 2010. He is married to the neuroscientist Professor Anya Hurlbert. They have two children and live at Blagdon near Newcastle upon Tyne.
Stewart Brand
Stwart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.
Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley's books have sold over 800,000 copies, been translated into 27 languages and been short-listed for six literary prizes. In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for Nature via Nurture.
In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for Nature via Nurture. In 2006 he published Genome, a national bestseller. In 2007 he won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for Francis Crick. His most recent book, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, was published in 2010. He is married to the neuroscientist Professor Anya Hurlbert. They have two children and live at Blagdon near Newcastle upon Tyne.
Stewart Brand
Stwart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.
Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley's books have sold over 800,000 copies, been translated into 27 languages and been short-listed for six literary prizes. In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for Nature via Nurture.
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
FAO Country Profiles - Newsletter No. 08 [July 2011]
2011 Semantic Technology Conference
Slides on "Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles" presented by the FAO Country Profiles team
FAO Country Profiles - Newsletter No. 08 [July 2011]
Slides on "Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles" presented by the FAO Country Profiles team
Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles
View more presentations from FAO AIMS
FAO Country Profiles - Newsletter No. 08 [July 2011]
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
UN Watch | Monitoring the UN, Promoting Human Rights - UN Watch
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
"I deeply appreciate the valuable work performed by UN Watch. I believe that informed and independent evaluation of the United Nations' activities will prove a vital source as we seek to adapt the Organization to the needs of a changing world. I can promise you that I will pay close attention to your observations and views in the years ahead." —Letter to Ambassador Morris B. Abram, Chairman of UN Watch, Jan. 30, 1997. See also Secretary-General Annan's 1999 Tribute to UN Watch Founder Morris B. Abram.
United Nations Office at Geneva Director-General Sergei Ordzho- nikidze:
"Allow me to pay tribute to the valuable work of UN Watch in support of the just application of values and principles of the United Nations Charter and support for human rights for all." —Statement Delivered at Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, March 16, 2006.
UN Watch | Monitoring the UN, Promoting Human Rights - UN Watch
"I deeply appreciate the valuable work performed by UN Watch. I believe that informed and independent evaluation of the United Nations' activities will prove a vital source as we seek to adapt the Organization to the needs of a changing world. I can promise you that I will pay close attention to your observations and views in the years ahead." —Letter to Ambassador Morris B. Abram, Chairman of UN Watch, Jan. 30, 1997. See also Secretary-General Annan's 1999 Tribute to UN Watch Founder Morris B. Abram.
United Nations Office at Geneva Director-General Sergei Ordzho- nikidze:
"Allow me to pay tribute to the valuable work of UN Watch in support of the just application of values and principles of the United Nations Charter and support for human rights for all." —Statement Delivered at Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, March 16, 2006.
UN Watch | Monitoring the UN, Promoting Human Rights - UN Watch
Monday, 11 July 2011
As world population nears 7 billion, focus must be on people, not number...
unitednations | 11 jui 2011
United Nations, New York City, 11 July 2011 - As the world population approaches seven billion, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that ending global poverty and inequality is the key to unleashing the great human potential for prosperity and peaceful coexistence, while protecting the planet and safeguarding the natural resources that sustain humanity.
"Later this year, a seven-billionth baby will be born into our world of complexity and contradiction," Mr. Ban said in a message to mark World Population Day, observed annually on 11 July.
United Nations, New York City, 11 July 2011 - As the world population approaches seven billion, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that ending global poverty and inequality is the key to unleashing the great human potential for prosperity and peaceful coexistence, while protecting the planet and safeguarding the natural resources that sustain humanity.
"Later this year, a seven-billionth baby will be born into our world of complexity and contradiction," Mr. Ban said in a message to mark World Population Day, observed annually on 11 July.
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