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Do you know how much water you actually consume every day? How can you change your diet and reduce your water footprint? Join the World Water Day 2012 campaign “Water and Food Security” and find out more! 
There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres.
When a billion people in the world already live in chronic hunger and water resources are under pressure we cannot pretend the problem is ‘elsewhere’. Coping with population growth and ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with:
follow a healthier, sustainable diet;
consume less water-intensive products;
reduce the scandalous food wastage: 30% of the food produced worldwide is never eaten and the water used to produce it is definitively lost!
produce more food, of better quality, with
less water.
At all steps of the supply chain, from producers to consumers, actions can be taken to save water and ensure food for all.

Kashmiri Diaspora in Europe: Exclusion, Implications & Human Rights
This paper was read at a seminar titled " India-Pakistan Peace Process: the Way Forward" in London on 28 February 2012. The writer of this paper is an author, researcher, film script writer, director and founder chief executive of International Pahari Literary Society. His three books "Punch-na-Sarmad", "Taharan-ni-Agh" and  "Mela Asman" are the best sellers in Pahari language . His two more books are in print. His campaign on Kashmiri identity in the UK has gained momentum in recent months. He is co-ordinator of Kashmir National Identity Campaign (KNIC) in the UK. To read this research paper click here 


Environmental degradation in Azad Kashmir
Zafar Iqbal and Ejaz Ur Rehman
Poverty, disease and misery, along with environmental degradation and destruction of forests, are great concerns in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Though in recent years some interventions have been made by state and none state organisations to introduce concepts of sustainable livelihood and the preservation of natural resources in Azad Kashmir, the earthquake affected area is the focus of all these developmental efforts. 

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International Mother Earth Day
  • Mother Earth is a common expression for earth
  • Bolivians call it Pachamama, people of Nicaragua Tonantzin and Kashmiris call it Dharti
  • International Mother Earth Day is observed to raise public awareness around the world to the challenges regarding the well-being of the Mother Earth.

How Would You Like to Be Called in Britain?
  • Pakistani
  • Indian
  • Kashmiri
      
 


Hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments around the world unite each year to support the largest environmental event in history – Earth Hour. 

More than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2011, sending a powerful message for action on climate change.  Read More


Kashmir: Building Peace Through Trade 

Ejaz Mir, a young entrepreneur, lives in a small town at the border of Kashmir, which is divided into an Indian and a Pakistani side. Whenever the tensions between both nuclear powers escalate over their borders, shadows of war and clouds of fear hover over this town. 



Kashmri trader Ejaz Mir stands at the LoC
where Intra-Kashmir trade takes place.
Since childhood, this young trader has been witnessing shells falling, wounded civilians and the destruction of hospitals, schools and business structures in his surrounding area. However, when in 2002 India and Pakistan decided to establish travel and business links between the two divided parts of Kashmir, after 60 years of lack of communication, he finally regained hopes of rebuilding his stagnant business. 

Featured Publications 

Environmental Issues and Need of Sustainable Development  

Writer/Resarcher: Ejaz Ur-Rehman
Language: English
Publisher: Press for Peace

Environmental issues and Sustainable Development concepts have often been ignored in relief, rehabilitation and development activities in the earthquake affected areas of the state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. This study contributes to our current knowledge of disaster relocation literature and sustainable development of community. 
The researcher is Director Environment in Press for Peace 

Writer: Eva Maria Teja Mayer
Language: German
Publisher: Tyrolia-Publisher’s House, Austria
Hero of this book is Munir, an 11-year old school-boy from a mountain village near Bagh in Azad Kashmir. Despite having been injured himself, Munir supports his family and friends in the struggle of survival after devastating earthquake in 2005. Miss Eva has a first-hand experience of those tragedies which emerged after the disaster. She is a long-time associate of PFP.

Title: Islam Women And Violence In Kashmir
Publisher: Gulshan Books 
Author: Nyla Ali Khan
Edition: Hardcover
This book was first published in US by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. The Indian edition has been published by Gulshan Books. Along with the cultural, political, religious history of Kashmir, the author of this book articulates contemporary gender issues in the militarized social and cultural fabric of Kashmir. 
This is the first thorough study of the tragedy of Kashmir done by a Kashmiri woman. Nyla writes dispassionately, but one can sense her passion and concern for Kashmir. In the chapter, ‘ Boundaries of Gender, Community and Nationhood’, Nyla uses the analytical tools of post-modernism and feminist criticism to focus on the role of women in Kashmir, that differentiates this book from others written on the subject. Contact Publishers

Press for Peace Environment Focus 

  • Climate Change 
  • Biodiversity Conservation 
  • Habitat Restoration and Management 
  • Sustainable Development 
  • Eco tourism