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Papua New Guinea: Informal Economy Ensures Equitable Development

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living.

India: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea.

Germany: While Some Waste, Others Feast

Friday, January 20, 2012

Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student, stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage containers.

Progress Towards A Food-Secure Africa

Friday, January 20, 2012

A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa are some of the countries that have made tremendous achievements towards achieving these goals.

Money Is All That's Green In Biodiesel

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The only green in biodiesel fuel is the money producers make from it, new research has revealed.

Mideast: Flowers Fight Their Way Out

Friday, January 13, 2012

Ayman Siam, 41, is not growing carnations as usual this year. It’s limonium and statice flowers instead because they are hardier. Given the risks of an Israeli blockade, it’s a political decision.

El Salvador: Pesticides Fill Graveyards in Rural Villages

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sitting in the shade under a tree at a careful distance, Francisco Sosa watches his son prepare the land for planting by spraying the weeds with an herbicide from a tank carried on his back.

Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails To Rebuild Global Stocks

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The world's farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tonnes, up 53 million tonnes from the previous record in 2009.

Brown Revolution Brings New Hope

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It’s what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.

Mideast: The Olive Branch Fights Back

Sunday, January 08, 2012

'During hard times, we have survived off olive oil,' says Ahmed Sourani from the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee. 'During the last war many people who couldn’t leave their homes had only bread and olive oil to sustain them for long periods.'

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