{"id":25144,"date":"2006-06-28T19:03:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:33:54","slug":"144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The report challenges the myth that Africa is poor. Indeed, it points out that its vast natural wealth can &#8230; be the basis for an African renaissance,&quot; said UNEP&#8217;s new executive director Achim Steiner.   <\/p>\n<p>But he warned that without changes in policy or sufficient funding &quot;Africa may take a far more unsustainable track that would see an erosion of its nature-based wealth and a slide into ever deeper poverty&quot;.  <\/p>\n<p>UNEP urged African leaders to consider a range of solutions to conserve the environment from water saving irrigation systems to increasing the amount of land for agricultural use by putting government-held land into production.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetark.com\/dailynewsstory.cfm\/newsid\/37031\/story.htm\"><br \/>\nFull story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report titled &quot;Our Environment, Our Wealth&quot; on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-25144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Africa&#039;s natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report titled &quot;Our Environment, Our Wealth&quot; on Tuesday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Africa&#039;s natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report titled &quot;Our Environment, Our Wealth&quot; on Tuesday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dialogue Earth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-06-28T19:03:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-14T18:33:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-logo_Thumbnail.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"China Dialogue\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"China Dialogue\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed\"},\"headline\":\"Africa&#8217;s natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-06-28T19:03:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-14T18:33:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/\"},\"wordCount\":119,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/\",\"name\":\"Africa's natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN | Dialogue Earth\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-06-28T19:03:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-14T18:33:54+00:00\",\"description\":\"Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report titled &quot;Our Environment, Our Wealth&quot; on Tuesday.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Africa&#8217;s natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Dialogue Earth\",\"description\":\"Global climate and environment news\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"width\":256,\"height\":256,\"caption\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_\",\"\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/\"],\"description\":\"Dialogue Earth is an independent non-profit dedicated to producing exceptional environmental journalism and informed conversations on urgent climate and sustainability topics. Our unique model brings local voices to global audiences and global stories of hope, action and change to local communities. We are committed to accurately portraying China\u2019s development impacts across the Global South through geopolitically even-handed reporting and constructive dialogue. Our approach is rooted in a network of specialist country editors located across South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, and delivered through reporting in eight languages, workshops, and media partnerships. We seek to bring light, rather than heat, to crucial debates, and solutions to bear on complex problems.\",\"email\":\"info@dialogue.earth\",\"telephone\":\"(+44) 7542 525 859\",\"legalName\":\"Dialogue Earth\",\"foundingDate\":\"2006-09-22\",\"numberOfEmployees\":{\"@type\":\"QuantitativeValue\",\"minValue\":\"11\",\"maxValue\":\"50\"},\"publishingPrinciples\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed\",\"name\":\"China Dialogue\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Africa's natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN | Dialogue Earth","description":"Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report titled &quot;Our Environment, Our Wealth&quot; on Tuesday.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Africa's natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN","og_description":"Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report titled &quot;Our Environment, Our Wealth&quot; on Tuesday.","og_url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/","og_site_name":"Dialogue Earth","article_published_time":"2006-06-28T19:03:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-05-14T18:33:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-logo_Thumbnail.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"China Dialogue","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/"},"author":{"name":"China Dialogue","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed"},"headline":"Africa&#8217;s natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN","datePublished":"2006-06-28T19:03:18+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-14T18:33:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/"},"wordCount":119,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/","name":"Africa's natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN | Dialogue Earth","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-06-28T19:03:18+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-14T18:33:54+00:00","description":"Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report titled &quot;Our Environment, Our Wealth&quot; on Tuesday.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/144-africa-s-natural-wealth-is-key-to-fighting-poverty-un\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Africa&#8217;s natural wealth is key to fighting poverty \u2013 UN"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","name":"Dialogue Earth","description":"Global climate and environment news","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization","name":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","width":256,"height":256,"caption":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_","","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/"],"description":"Dialogue Earth is an independent non-profit dedicated to producing exceptional environmental journalism and informed conversations on urgent climate and sustainability topics. Our unique model brings local voices to global audiences and global stories of hope, action and change to local communities. We are committed to accurately portraying China\u2019s development impacts across the Global South through geopolitically even-handed reporting and constructive dialogue. Our approach is rooted in a network of specialist country editors located across South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, and delivered through reporting in eight languages, workshops, and media partnerships. We seek to bring light, rather than heat, to crucial debates, and solutions to bear on complex problems.","email":"info@dialogue.earth","telephone":"(+44) 7542 525 859","legalName":"Dialogue Earth","foundingDate":"2006-09-22","numberOfEmployees":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","minValue":"11","maxValue":"50"},"publishingPrinciples":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed","name":"China Dialogue","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/","sameAs":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25144"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=25144"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=25144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}