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Agriculture — Promoting organic farming and sustainable agriculture would protect environmental resources while also creating new jobs in the agriculture sector. The region could also appeal to the growing global market for organic produce. Renewable Energy — The International Labor Organization has highlighted renewable energy as particularly promising for job creation, noting that job growth in the sector has increased by 21% annually across the globe. Investment in the renewable energy sector could yield significant job creation in the Arab world, potentially more than 500,000 new jobs according to some estimates. Beyond its job creation potential, renewable energy offers promising avenues for promoting innovation and economic growth. Geography and climate endow the Middle East with the world‘s greatest potential for solar-power production, not to mention abundant wind energy potential. Particularly for oil-importing countries, solar and wind power could help fill rising energy needs while cutting air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and lowering energy-import bills. Public officials and private firms alike increasingly recognize the advantages of seizing such opportunities. Morocco, for instance, plans to install 2,000 MW of solar capacity in the country by 2020. At the same time, several international initiatives, such as the German-led DESERTEC consortium and the recently announced English-Tunisian, TuNur, joint venture, aim to invest billions of dollars in the region to establish networks of renewable energy projects linking Arab countries to each other, as well as to export markets in Europe and Africa. Transitioning to green economies in the Arab world will help to ensure that the region fulfills the promise held by this period of historic transformation. The intertwining challenges of climate change, water and food scarcity, coupled with increased urbanization, present a particularly complex problem. The pathway to mitigating these threats could unlock critical synergies that not only reduce environmental degradation, but als lead to job creation and economic growth. . ―Arab Spring Must Also Weather Environmental Threats‖, 30/07/2012, online at: http://www.almonitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/how-green-economies-can-sustain.html BACK TO TOP Page 13
Syrians in Need of Food Aid to Reach 3 Million on Conflict Syrians requiring food aid will number 1.5 million over the next three to six months, especially in areas that have seen most conflict and population displacement, the UN‘s Food & Agriculture Organization reported. The people requiring nutritional support are expected to reach 3 million over the next 12 months, the Rome-based agency wrote in a report on its website today, citing an assessment by the United Nations and the Syrian government. Violence that started in March last year has left at least 19,000 people dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, with fighting intensifying in the past few months as troops loyal to the government clashed with rebels. Syria‘s agriculture sector has lost $1.8 billion this year as a result of the crisis and damages to crops, livestock and irrigation systems, according to the FAO. ―While the economic implications of these losses are quite grave, the humanitarian implications are far more pressing,‖ Muhannad Hadi, the World Food Programme‘s Syria representative, was cited as saying in the report. ―The effects of these major losses are first, and most viciously, felt by the poorest in the country.‖ About 1 million people need crop and livestock assistance such as seeds, animal feed, fuel and repair of irrigation pumps, the FAO wrote. Syria‘s winter-grain crop is in jeopardy because of escalating conflict and drought, the FAO wrote in a report dated July 26. Grain import requirements may jump to 5 million metric tons in the year through June from 3.51 million tons in 2011-12, the agency estimates. ―Farmers have been forced to either abandon farming or leave standing crops unattended due to the unavailability of labor, the lack of fuel and the rise in fuel costs, and insecurity, as well as power cuts affecting water supply,‖ the FAO wrote in the report today. ―Syrians in Need of Food Aid to Reach 3 Million on Conflict‖, 02/08/2012, online at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/syrians-in-need-of-food-aid-to-reach-3-million-on-conflict-1- .html?utm_source=Circle+of+Blue+WaterNews+%26+Alerts&utm_campaign=5c3cc127bc- RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email BACK TO TOP Page 14
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