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Mali is one of West Africa's landlocked, drought-prone countries, which are situated south of Sahara.

Soybean cultivation covers 57 % of all agricultural area in Argentina. Nearly 100 % of all cultivated soya in Argentina is transgenic soya and its planting requires glyphosate herbicide patented by Monsanto Company, which dominates around 90 % of the global market for genetically modified seeds. It has been proven that Glyphosate causes environmental damage, and in recent years the situation has become worse when the transgenic plants have started to become increasingly resistant to glyphosate and thus, it is being replaced by other even more toxic herbicides such as dicamba.

The impact of human activity on the environment has increased alarmingly and is a call for concern. The carbon footprint measures the amount of Green House Gas (GHG) we individually produce by burning of fossil fuels daily through domestic energy consumption, heating, for electricity, transportation etc.

The Lokka and Porttipahta reservoir lakes in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland, were built during the 1960s and 70s to serve hydroelectric power generation. The impacts of these reservoirs were downplayed for decades and the indigenous rights of Sami people ignored. A project coordinated by the United Nations Association of Finland will examine the reservoir building processes from a Sami point of view.