News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 99
A Climate Finance Goal That Works for Developing Countries
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jun 15 (IPS) - After years of failing to meet climate finance commitments, the new climate finance goal under discussion this week in Bonn is critical, but without supporting reforms of the global financial architecture we risk repeating past mistakes.
No Peace Until Peace For All
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 14 (IPS) - As we head into June, we will commemorate a number of important international days that call for much-needed support to protect refugees, end child labour, stop sexual violence in conflict and ensure human rights for the innocent children victims of aggression.
Food Insecurity Fears as Pakistan Faces Cyclone, Monsoon Season
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Jun 13 (IPS) - A warning by the UN that Pakistan may face acute food insecurity in the coming months should serve as a wake-up call for the government to focus on the flood-hit areas where the people still live without shelter, medication, and proper food, analysts say.
Transforming Food Systems through Conscious, Mindful Practices
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 12 (IPS) - Deep in the Egyptian desert, the SEKEM community celebrates its first wheat crop – grown to alleviate shortages and price increases caused by the war in Ukraine, and the latest crop in a 46-year history of regenerative development, which has effectively made the desert bloom. On another continent, a consumer who buys acai collected and produced by the Yawanawá in Brazil helps protect 200,000 acres of land.
Conflict & Hunger Deeply Embedded in War-Ravaged Yemen
- Inter Press Service
SANA’A, Yemen, Jun 06 (IPS) - During the week of May 21, the UN held its annual week dedicated to the Protection of Civilians. The themes of the week’s events, particularly the side events, I had the honor of participating in, mirrored many of the pressing issues in Yemen, as conflict continues.
Close Inequalities to End AIDS & Prepare for Future Pandemics
- Inter Press Service
BRASILIA, Brazil, Jun 05 (IPS) - The COVID-19 crisis has shone a light on the danger of pandemics; social crises have shone a light on the danger of inequalities. And the reality is that outbreaks become the pandemics they do because of inequality. The good news is that both can be overcome – if they are confronted as one.
Rocky Point Fishers Await Sanctuary To Ease Environmental Issues, Low Fish Catch
- Inter Press Service
ROCKY POINT, Jamaica, Jun 02 (IPS) - Long before the COVID-19 Pandemic, fishers at the Rocky Point fishing beach in Clarendon were forced to venture farther out to sea to make a living or find alternatives to make ends meet.
Of the Sahel and the Merchants of Death
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jun 02 (IPS) - There is a tangled trafficking web that has been woven across the Sahel, which spans almost 6.000 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and is home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
Peru's Agro-Export Boom Has not Boosted Human Development
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, May 31 (IPS) - Peru’s agro-export industry is growing steadily and reached record levels in 2022. But this has not had a favorable impact on human development in this South American country, where high levels of inequality, poverty, childhood anemia and malnutrition persist, as well as complaints about the poor quality of employment in the sector.
Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get Worse
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 29 (IPS) - Please stop repeating all this softened wording, such as climate change, climate-related hazards, climate crisis, or extreme weather events... And just call it what it really is: climate carnage.
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