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Schnarchen ade dank Käse? Eine neue Studie kommt zum Ergebnis, dass regelmässiger Käsegenuss das Risiko für Schlafapnoe drastisch reduziere. Die Studie widerlegt den Mythos, dass Milchprodukte Atemwegsprobleme verschlimmern.

Le Sénat italien a récemment adopté le décret « Decreto Flussi », une mesure phare visant à encadrer les flux migratoires de travailleurs étrangers saisonniers et non […]

L’article Decreto Flussi : l’Italie ouvre ses portes aux travailleurs qualifiés algériens dès 2025 est apparu en premier sur .

Le Programme d'Insertion dans l'Emploi (PSIE) recrute à 94 postes au profit de plusieurs entreprises.

Un appel à candidatures est lancé ce mercredi 04 décembre 2024 sur le Programme d'Insertion dans l'Emploi (PSIE). Voici les profils recherchés et comment postuler.

Les 94 postes ouverts sont : Agent / Agente d'exploitation informatique ; Secrétaire polyvalent / polyvalente ; Assistant d'opérations et d'études en Economie - Statistiques – Planification ; Contrôleurs de chantier du BTP (02) ; Assistant / Assistante de gestion des ressources humaines et en administration ; Scénaristes Multimédia (02) ; Directeur / Directrice de centre d'affaires bancaires ; Expert en suivi et en évaluation ; Technicien(ne)s supérieur(e)s spécialisé(e)s administration des ventes (04) ; Secrétaires de direction ; Chargé de prospection commerciale ; Conseiller / Conseillère technique en administration, ressources humaines ; Directeur / Directrice Marketing et Action commerciale ; Développeurs (02) ; Directeur / Directrice de fabrication ; Ingénieur(e)s de production informatique (03) ; Technicien(ne) d'exploitation informatique / Technicien(ne) système informatique ; Chargé d'opération après-vente ; Superviseurs force de vente ; Chargé de prospection commerciale ; Chargé de l'administration commerciale ; Assistant chargé d'études commerciales et marketing ; Assistant(e)s d'exploitation informatique Chef d'équipe de production informatique ; Secrétaire administratif / administrative.

Les jeunes détenteurs de diplômes professionnels : Bac BTS, DUT, Licence Professionnelle, Master, Ingénieur sont concernés par l'avis d'appel à candidatures.

Les demandeurs d'emplois déjà inscrits sur la plateforme peuvent postuler via https://cutt.ly/FVZDlF8

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The successful no confidence motion plunges France back into severe political crisis.

La majorité des députés de l’Assemblée nationale a, peu après XXX mercredi 4 décembre, voté la censure du gouvernement du Premier ministre Michel Barnier, ouvrant la voie à la crise politique la plus importante de la Ve République.

Ein Sternschnuppen-Spektakel erwartet uns! Zwischen dem 6. und 16. Dezember durchquert die Erde den Geminiden-Meteorstrom. An seinem Höhepunkt sind bis zu 150 Sternschnuppen möglich. Experten erklären, wann sich der Blick nach oben lohnt.

Anita Zimmermann ist wütend und ein bisschen verzweifelt: «Wir Künstler können nicht mehr zurück. Es geht gar nicht anders.» Die Künstlerin und Initiantin will in der Stadt St. Gallen das kleinste Skigebiet der Welt eröffnen – doch jetzt fehlt ihr plötzlich Geld.

In der Stadt St. Gallen ist es am Mittwochabend zu einem Unfall gekommen. Ein Lastwagen stürzte einen Abhang hinunter. Die Stadtpolizei ist im Einsatz.

TASR: 50 ezer eurót különít el a kormány egy elhunyt rendőr családjának anyagi támogatására. Matúš Šutaj Eštok (Hlas) belügyminiszter és Hlas-vezér elmondta, a rendőr a Felügyeleti Szolgálati Hivatal munkatársa volt, és november 16-án halt meg. „Az elhunyt rendőr után a felesége és három kisgyermeke maradt hátra, és a család nehéz anyagi helyzetbe került” – közölte a miniszter.

Mit Michael Weinmann und Bigna Silberschmidt verlassen gleich zwei beliebte Moderatoren das SRF. Trotz dieser Verluste kann der Sender auf treue Mitarbeitende zählen – einige von ihnen sind ihrem Arbeitgeber seit über 30 Jahren treu.

Der Sieg hat sie ins Rampenlicht katapultiert! Jelena Filipovic hat als VCS-Co-Präsidentin mit unermüdlichem Einsatz das historische Nein zum Autobahnausbau erkämpft. Wie die gebürtige Serbin zur Klimaaktivistin in der Schweiz wurde.

La compagnie aérienne nationale Air Algérie a annoncé l’annulation de six vols reliant l’Algérie à la France, prévus pour le jeudi 5 décembre. Cette décision […]

L’article Pour cause de grève, Air Algérie annule 6 vols entre l’Algérie et la France à cette date est apparu en premier sur .

The international carbon markets need recognition of community rights to be integrated in the national and international supporting regulations and guidance. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS

By Rebecca Iwerks and Alain Frechette
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 4 2024 (IPS)

This time last year, the forestry space was abuzz with news of the big Blue Carbon deals. The deals set a staggering amount of land in Sub-Saharan Africa – 20% of the land in Zimbabwe, 10% of Liberia and Zambia, 8% of Tanzania, and an undisclosed amount of land in Kenya – to be managed by a firm in the United Arab Emirates.

Without involvement of communities impacted by the projects, countries across Africa were strapped into memorandums of agreement with 30 years of commitments. Reports suggested that Blue Carbon was retaining upwards of 70% of the project revenues while impacting the livelihoods of millions. The audacious scale of the project shocked the conscience.

Carbon projects have run afoul of community land rights throughout the Global South, from Brazil to Laos to Malaysia. In many places, communities have not received revenue – or, worse, have been removed from their land – after keeping the landscapes intact for generations

One year later, among the jumble of headlines coming out of the recent UN climate change talks in Baku was the adoption of new rules intended to jumpstart the carbon credit markets.

These financial initiatives were included in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to provide incentives for efforts that reduce carbon emissions. The new UN rules, however, have already been criticized for not providing sufficient guardrails to avoid transactions like the Blue Carbon deals from happening elsewhere.

With the new rules, it won’t be clear whether communities who have lived on and worked their territories for generations should be consulted as part of a project. If things go well, it won’t be clear that they are entitled to benefits and if things go poorly, it won’t be clear that they should be able to claim remedies.

Carbon projects have run afoul of community land rights throughout the Global South, from Brazil to Laos to Malaysia. In many places, communities have not received revenue – or, worse, have been removed from their land – after keeping the landscapes intact for generations.

The repeated headlines have impacted market confidence – volume and value have decreased for two consecutive years. Unfortunately, policy makers have yet to make changes that would reduce the risks.

Governments and companies have repeatedly asserted the important link between community land rights and better outcomes for the planet.

At the start of November, at the UN talks on biodiversity, the governments emphasized the critical importance of tenure security to protect biodiversity.

Ten days later, leaders from 12 countries joined with Indigenous leaders to stress the importance of land tenure to protect forests as part of the Forest Climate Leaders Partnership.

Governments are saying this because study after study shows that when Indigenous Peoples and local communities have clear tenure over their forest, the forest is better protected.

National legislation is murky, however. Most countries do not recognize the rights of people living on the land impacted by carbon projects.

We collaborated with experts at McGill University to study the legal frameworks of 33 countries and found only three countries recognized community-based carbon rights.

The lack of national legal guidelines for the carbon markets is alarming. More than half of the countries we studied do not have regulations for carbon trading.

Almost two-thirds have no evidence of a registry of carbon projects and, of those that do, only six have this information publicly available. Only seven have designed or implemented benefit-sharing policies that apply to carbon market projects and only four of the seven have established a minimum allocation requirement for affected communities.

Policy makers at the global level had the opportunity to fix this problem. But now, all eyes turn to national governments. Before they rush to create new carbon policies after Baku, they can make their countries a place where carbon projects are more secure by making community land rights front and center.

This is still a story that has yet to end. Just a few months ago, the Liberian National Climate Change Steering Committee (NCCSC) put a moratorium on all carbon credit projects until they have proper carbon regulations in place.

Liberia had two things going for it: strong land laws and strong organizing. Now it needs regulations to handle carbon trading.

The international carbon markets need recognition of community rights to be integrated in the national and international supporting regulations and guidance. The markets are like any other financial market – transparency, guardrails, and enforcement measures are needed to bring about confidence, and at this point, they’re needed very quickly.

 

Alain Frechette, PhD, is Rights, Climate & Conservation Director at Rights and Resources Initiative. Rebecca Iwerks is Director of Global Land and Environmental Justice Initiative at Namati.

Professor Rossino Almeida, from the Federal University of Campina Grande (I), explains to ninth grade students at the Gurjão municipal school, northeastern Brazil, how the biodigester installed by the EcoProductive Pilot Project at the Tapera Farm works. Credit: Carlos Müller / IPS

By Carlos Müller
CONGO, Brazil, Dec 4 2024 (IPS)

In the municipality of Congo, in the state of Paraiba, in the driest territory of Brazil’s semi-arid region, an original initiative seeks to prove it is possible to overcome several challenges concerning family farming. It is the EcoProductive Pilot Project.

This project shares  innovations that support family farming production, combat the region’s desertification process and encourage young people to stay in the territory, learning to coexist with adverse conditions through agroecology, which includes biodigesters, photovoltaic energy and technical assistance.“I bought this land for US$1,750. That was in 2006, when the national minimum wage was US$61 and at that time the Paraíba river didn't have water all year round”: José Roberto da Silva

The municipality of Congo has an area of 333 square kilometres, 4,692 inhabitants, 37.25% of whom live in rural areas, where there are 415 farms. Its Human Development Index (HDI) is low, 0.581, ranked 116th among the 223 municipalities in the state of Paraíba, according to official data.

Its average annual rainfall is 610 millimetres (mm) per square metre, which in the four dry months of the year drops to 5 mm, and its average annual temperature is 23.7°C.

EcoProductivo is a cooperation between the Paraíba state government, the Federal University of Campina Grande, about 140 kilometres from Congo, and the Community Association of Farmers, Beekeepers and Breeders of the Tatú, Tapera, Poso Cumprido and Barro Branco Communities, which goes by the unpronounceable acronym Acapcac-Ttpcbb.

The association was founded in 2022 and has 140 members (96 families), including 34 women and 15 young people.

Procase consultant Felipe Leal talks about the genetic improvement of animals at the Community Association of Farmers, Beekeepers and Breeders of the Tatú, Tapera, Poso Cumprido and Barro Branco Communities in the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. Credit: Carlos Müller / IPS

A solutions lab

What is known as the Open Air Laboratory is located in the community of Tapera, part of the village of Congo. There, a small family farm was chosen where 30 strategic actions will be carried out and shared with the other members of the association.

The farms and the location of the Ecoproductive Pilot Project were chosen by a technical committee with the participation of association representatives, according to their moderate to high risk of desertification, their socio-economic profile and the presence of the Paraíba Sustainable Rural Development Project (Procase).

Sítio Tapera, the establishment that became the headquarters of the ‘laboratory’, belongs to José Roberto da Silva and his wife Marlene.

“I was a cowboy all my life and when I decided to stop, the rancher I worked for gave me a bonus. With that money I bought this land for 10,000 reais (US$1,750). That was in 2006, when the national minimum wage was 350 reais (US$61) and at that time the Paraíba river didn’t have water all year round,” Silva told IPS.

The 29.5 hectare site is crossed by the Paraíba River, which, despite being the largest river in the state, was not perennial until recently. Its flow was normalized through one of the São Francisco river diversion canals.

The prickly pear palm, widely used northeastern Brazil to feed livestock during droughts, is grown in the EcoProductive Pilot Project in the state of Paraíba, where a species resistant to the pest known as the Cochineal is being planted. Credit: Carlos Müller / IPS

Water from the diversion

The São Francisco is the largest river entirely within the borders of Brazil and flows through several states. Work to divert between 1% and 3% of its flow began in 2007 amidst much criticism.

At a cost of US$2,450 million, the works have not been completed yet, but its two main canals, totalling 480 kilometres, in addition to making several rivers permanent, feed many dams in several states in northeastern Brazil.

The subsoil of the Northeast region contains important water tables, but they are brackish. The flow of the São Francisco represents 70% of all freshwater in the Northeast, where 28% of Brazil’s 212 million people live.

The Paraíba River, which has become a perennial river, allows farmers from the association to maintain dams in order to raise tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fish. Two were built on the site used as the headquarters of the ‘laboratory’, which received 3,500 fingerlings donated by the state government.

The water drawn from the river is also used to irrigate the new fruit trees and the prickly pear (Mauritia flexuosa) of a species resistant to the pest known as Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus).

EcoProductivo was launched in April 2023. Among its goals are the genetic improvement of 400 cows, 1,800 goats and 1,800 sheep; the installation of a solar energy generation system and a biodigester to replace the use of liquefied gas; ponds for fish farming, and the production of seedlings of various species.

It also seeks to implement sustainable soil management practices, with the aim of conserving fertility and reducing erosion, and reforest degraded areas and plant fruits compatible with the conditions of the region, such as cashew, guava and passion fruit, irrigated with solar energy.

In the first year of project implementation, in addition to the fish ponds, a biodigester, a photovoltaic energy generation system, a corral that houses animals for the improvement of the community’s herds, and nurseries for fruit seedlings and reforestation were installed at Sitio Tapera.

The total cost of the project was budgeted at US$55,087, and Felipe Leal, a consultant for Procase, told IPS about its main components: the photovoltaic system, corrals, irrigation system, excavated tanks and the weather station installed by a state government agency at a cost of more than US$21,000.

Ana Carla Ramos da Silva’s farm is building the community’s second biodigester and the benefits of genetic improvement of her goat herd are already paying off. She sells 150 litres of goat milk a week and will soon supply 190 kilos of cheese to the Brazilian government’s Food Procurement Programme. Credit: Carlos Müller / IPS

Gas of their own

The biodigester, explained Professor Rossino Almeida of the Federal University of Capina Grande, who is providing technical assistance to the project, “costs US$ 1,400. Of this, 70% is financed by public resources and 30% by the landowner, divided in 10 instalments”.

“Bottled gas is expensive and I can’t fetch firewood because I had heart surgery. Now, with the biodigester, I only used the gas from the cylinder to make food for the whole family on Mother’s Day. The last cylinder we bought was last year,” said Marlene da Silva with a satisfied smile.

According to Leal, thanks to the project’s improvements and technical assistance, José Roberto da Silva’s family has already earned the equivalent of US$5,606 this year from the sale of cassava, lettuce, sweet potatoes, and is about to sell a tonne of fish grown in their two ponds. They have also sold three litres of honey.

The loan of breeding animals, the supply of seedlings and technical assistance is already benefiting the other families of the Association, even if they have not made investments like those made in Sítio Tapera.

Each pond in the Eco-Productive Pilot Project received 3,500 fingerlings donated by the government of the state of Paraíba, in northeastern Brazil. In the first harvest, the Da Silva family, owner of Sítio Tapera, aims to sell a tonne of tilapia for just over US$3,600. Credit: Carlos Müller / IPS

Markets for increased production

On Ana Carla Ramos da Silva’s property, a second biodigester is being built. But with the genetic improvement of her goat herd, she already sells 150 litres of goat milk a week and is preparing to sell 190 kilograms of cheese, as well as expanding honey production.

One of the farmers’ main concerns was what to do to market a larger production. Procase technicians and Professor Almeida have been assisting in contacts with traders and in seeking access to public and private markets.

One of the priority channels is the Brazilian federal government’s Food Acquisition Programme (PAA), which buys products from family farming for distribution to welfare institutions.

“We finished the consultancy with a total of 15 EcoProdutivo beneficiaries enrolled in the PAA. We helped in the organisation of documentation and estimations of the products to be delivered, among other demands. It is worth noting that of 15 enrolled, 12 are women,” Leal said in a message sent to IPS.

On the day IPS learned about the experience, Sítio Tapera was also visited by a group of ninth-graders, mostly 15 years old, from the Inácio Caluete municipal school in Gurjão, a nearby municipality of about 4,500 inhabitants and even drier than Congo.

These teenagers, most of them farmers’ sons and daughters, have, in addition to their regular subjects, elective classes in the Rural Entrepreneurship Education and Sustainable Agricultural Practices Programme, which are not only theoretical. That day was dedicated to field work.

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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has experienced exile, detention and a quarter of a century in top government posts.

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has experienced exile, detention and a quarter of a century in top government posts.