Category Archives: Pacific Islands

Climate change – an interview with Mia Urbano, author of Indonesian Study; Part 2

By Sarai Cosgrove, Published: November 15, 2011
What else did the study tell you? MU: I guess the most significant finding is how climate change is likely to aggravate malnutrition and food security. In Indonesia, malnutrition is largely ascribed to compromised infant feeding practices, and there was ready evidence that, with crop failure and freak weather events, people were moving, they were [...]
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Climate change – an interview with Mia Urbano, author of Indonesian Study; Part 1

By Sarai Cosgrove, Published: November 15, 2011
Welcome to the first blog by UNICEF’s regional office for East Asia and the Pacific. The purpose of our blog is to highlight different development issues facing the region’s children, as well as taking a more in-depth look at how they are being tackled beyond the ubiquitous human interest story you have all come to [...]
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Water rationing continues in Tuvalu

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 20, 2011
When you live in a place that is facing severe water shortages and your family has only 40 litres of rationed water per day …when you live in a place where trees, crops and grass are all turning brown or withering away from the blistering heat… you have to ask the question – “What’s going [...]
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Tinned fish, noodles and turkey tails

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 16, 2011
By Tanya St George, Senior Advocacy Advisor, UNICEF New Zealand It’s World Food Day and while we in New Zealand continue to debate the price of milk, spare a thought for our neighbours in the Pacific, where spiraling food prices are forcing some families to make major changes to their diets, and climate change now [...]
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Water Crisis in Tuvalu

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 10, 2011
Vika Waradi, UNICEF Pacific, blogging from Tuvalu Greetings from Funafuti, Tuvalu. The weather here is as expected for this part of the Pacific – HOT like sizzling oven hot! It rained for about 5 minutes yesterday (Sunday)…just enough to cool things down a bit… but nowhere NEAR what is needed to fill up families’ water [...]
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