News headlines in March 2011, page 12

Climate change has become an important part of the development agenda. In Africa, farmers and consumers alike are feeling its effects on productivity and food security.

John Kyalo Mulwa couldn't support his family from his six hectare farm, so he quit farming to open a bar. But he turned the land - and decision-making on it - over to his wife. Turns out she's a better farmer than he ever was.

The bicycle has become a symbol of hope for hundreds of women who have been trained in repairing one of life’s favorite transport modes.

Long known as a 'boy's club', the worldwide media industry continues to struggle with gender equality, with new research showing women are still underrepresented in the majority of newsrooms across the globe.

As the Barack Obama administration seeks to limit its involvement in a third Muslim conflict in Libya, efforts are intensifying to help it find a political solution to the longest U.S. war — in Afghanistan.

When the Security Council adopted a wide-ranging resolution last week recommending humanitarian and military action inside Libya, both U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa were assigned key roles in 'coordinating' the implementation of the mandate.

Egyptians overwhelmingly endorsed a raft of proposed constitutional changes in a nationwide referendum on Saturday. But while the vote -- the first since the Feb 11 ouster of longstanding president Hosni Mubarak -- was hailed as the freest in recent Egyptian history, it also served to polarise public opinion along broadly sectarian lines.

'If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here,' says Israeli columnist Sefi Rachlevsky in the Israeli daily 'Haaretz'.

The man known as ‘Master Ayub’ holds classes for free, between three and seven o’clock. His classroom is a public park, and his students are street children six to 16 years of age who otherwise would be picking trash, begging, or slowly becoming petty thieves.

Economic growth in Latin America is driving the expansion of corporations from this region throughout the world — even in countries of the industrialised North that formerly seemed out-of-reach.