Sandy exposed millions of other New Yorkers to the sense of economic and environmental insecurity that clouds the lives of the poor every single day.
Such measures hope to help the U.S. meet energy security needs without adding to environmental insecurity.
WFN and its 160 member foundations like Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW), strive to bring together communities who see the value of combining their dollars to support work that recognizes and addresses the unique and complex problems women and girls face around the world: disproportionate poverty and violence; limited access to education and health care; and food and environmental insecurity.
As drought, flooding, crop failures and water shortages become more frequent, large mobilizations of people flee their homes, looking for food, for water, and for safety from the violence that erupts in areas plagued by environmental insecurities.
In addition, poor knowledge, physical and social insecurity, economic insecurity and environmental insecurities were commonly cited reasons for not seeking health care during the post partum period [ 1- 4].
Increasingly frequent and intense cycles of drought and flooding, environmental degradation, insecurity, weak government institutions and crumbling infrastructure have taken a huge toll on agricultural production in Somalia over the past three decades, particularly in the south-central regions.
Environmental change, food insecurity, and generalised violence, for example, represent emerging sources of human displacement.
Elimination of pastoralism has been considered a panacea for resolving food insecurity, environmental conservation, poor health and governance challenges in areas currently dominated by mobile pastoral communities in Uganda (Muhereza 2001).
Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations.
Yet, equally important is raising awareness of the close linkages between challenges presented by lack of access to family planning, rapid population growth, food insecurity, environmental changes and stalled economic growth.
We have to look not only at education, housing and legal aid, but also environmental issues, food insecurity, the safety net, immigration, philanthropy, access to medical care, the changing nature of work, equality of pay and opportunity, diversity, transportation issues and so much more.
