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Freshwater biodiversity and poverty in eastern Africa

 
Posted on: 23 July 2010 - 4:03pm
Poverty Environment Net - Focal Areas: 
Natural Resources
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Africa
freetag: 
environmental degradation
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Africa
UNEP
biodiversity
environmental degradation
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal

Red areas where high percentage of children with stunted growth - used as a proxy for poverty - coincide with a high freshwater biodiversity index - a proxy for biodiversity - likely indicate areas in which poor people have no other choice than to unsustainably extract resources, in turn threatening biodiversity.

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