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Women engaged in agri-food systems in Africa and Asia, including in India, face the highest climate risks such as droughts, floods or shortened crop-growing season, a new hotspot map developed by an international team of researchers has identified.
It ranked 87 countries based on the level of climate change threat faced by women working in agricultural sectors. The study covered nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa. India stood 12th on the risk index while people living in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) are at heightened risk.

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‘Renewable Energy Tracker 2023 (RET 2023)’ was released recently by the Platform of Action for Renewable Energy, Climate Action Network (CAN International).
It revealed that countries are not on track to achieve 100% renewable energy system due to insufficiency in efforts towards deploying renewables outside the power sector.

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The ‘Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2023’ report was released by the Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying during National Milk Day event.
It is based on the Animal Integrated Sample Survey (March 2022 to February 2023). Production of milk, egg and meat has significantly increased in 2022-23 over the past five years, though wool output during the same period has witnessed a negative growth.

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WHO’s most recent estimates, launched in March 2021, show that almost 1 in 3 women worldwide experiences physical and/or sexual violence in her lifetime.
Most of this is in the form of intimate partner violence. November 25, the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women, marks the beginning of the annual activist-led campaign, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. The campaign lasts until 10 December, observed every year as Human Rights Day.

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Tiriyani Block of Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district, Telangana secured the top position in the first delta rankings of Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP) announced by NITI Aayog.
The second position was bagged by Kaushambi block of Kaushambi District, Uttar Pradesh. The rankings were announced in a virtual event at NITI Aayog. The ranking of the blocks has been calculated on the basis of performance of blocks and progress achieved in the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in the month of June, 2023.

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UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report on ‘Climate finance for agrifood systems in sharp downward trend’.
The new analysis revealed the amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish compared to global climate finance flows. Another FAO published in the first week of COP28, stated that agriculture was the most climate-affected sector globally, with 40 per cent of countries reporting economic losses explicitly linked to it.

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Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report titled-The Global Status Report on Road Safety 2023, revealing critical findings and insights regarding road traffic fatalities and safety across the globe. Road traffic deaths worldwide decreased by 5% between 2010 and 2021, totaling 1.19 million fatalities annually. 108 UN member nations reported a drop in road traffic deaths during this period. India witnessed a 15% increase in fatalities, rising from 1.34 lakh in 2010 to 1.54 lakh in 2021.

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The International Debt Report, formerly known as the International Debt Statistics (IDS), is an annual publication by the World Bank now in its 50th year. The report focuses on providing external debt statistics and analysis for 122 low- and middle-income countries that participate in the World Bank’s Debt Reporting System. As an annual publication spanning five decades, the International Debt Report offers insights into external debt trends and debt sustainability for developing economies.

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Karnataka is set to release its Human Development Index (HDI) report for tribal groups, becoming the second state in India to do so after Kerala. The research project, undertaken by the University of Mysore’s Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) led by its director DC Nanjunda and Professor GS Premakumar from the Mandya PG Study Centre Department of Economics, was sponsored by the Union ministry of tribal affairs. This comprehensive study, conducted over three years, involved collecting data from over 5,000 members of more than 51 vulnerable tribal groups spread across various settlements in Karnataka.

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The Indian economy is projected to grow at a rate of 6.2% in 2024, a slight decrease from the 6.3% estimate for 2023. This growth is supported by strong domestic demand and the robust performance of the manufacturing and services sectors. This positions India as the fastest-growing large economy in the world, as stated in the United Nations World Economic Situation And Prospects Report for 2024.