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Environment - current issues Benin, in 34 editions.

The entry for Benin published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 7 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
7
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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1996 edition

Same as 1995

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The same text in 1995 and 1996.

Published as “Environment”

current issues:
  • recent droughts have severely affected marginal agriculture in north;
  • inadequate supplies of potable water;
  • poaching threatens wildlife populations;
  • deforestation;
  • desertification
natural hazards:
  • hot,
  • dry,
  • dusty harmattan wind may affect north in winter
international agreements:
  • party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection;
  • signed, but not ratified - Desertification, Law of the Sea

Rewritten: too little of the 1993 text remains to mark the changes.
current issues: recent droughts have severely affected marginal
agriculture in north; inadequate supplies of potable water; poaching
threatens wildlife populations; deforestation; desertification
natural hazards: hot, dry, dusty harmattan wind may affect north in
winter
international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Nuclear Test Ban,
Ozone Layer Protection; signed, but not ratified - Desertification,
Law of the Sea

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Benin: Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/benin/environment-current-issues.

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