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Article: Darfur Development Needs.(Sudan)
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat News Service
- Article date:
- August 13, 2007
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The following are extracts from a commentary by Jeffrey Sachs, a professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, published in late July: "[The new] United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report...[on Sudan] is a vivid study of how the natural environment, poverty and population growth can interact to provoke terrible human-made disasters like the violence in Darfur... The world's poorest places, like Darfur, are much more likely to go to war than richer places.... In the UNEP's words: 'There is a very strong link between land degradation, desertification, and conflict in Darfur'.
"Extreme poverty has several effects on ...
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