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Tea’s Future Depends on Its Farmers
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 20 (IPS) - The tea in your cup this morning began its journey in someone else’s hands. Hands whose work most of us never think about. Almost certainly, those hands belonged to a smallholder farmer tending a small plot of land, plucking leaves by hand beneath long mornings of mist and rain.
Countries Unevenly Impacted by Global Economic Shocks from Mideast Conflict
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (IPS) - The ongoing crisis in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to put immense stress and risk on the global economy.
The Iran War Exposes the Fragility of Our Fuel-Dependent Food System
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 20 (IPS) - Sharp surges in energy, fertilizer, and food prices triggered by the ongoing conflict in the Persian Gulf strikingly illustrate the deep interconnections between geopolitical conflict, food insecurity, and the fragility of fossil fuel–dependent food systems.
The 3Ds for a Credible Post-2030 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
HELSINKI, Finland / SANTIAGO, Chile / SUVA, Fiji / TOKYO, Japan, May 20 (IPS) - Just four years of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development remain. What comes after 2030 is already a political battleground.
The UN Vote that Could Reshape Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 20 (IPS) - Normally, resolutions voted at the United Nations General Assembly do not make the headlines.As nonbinding and mostly symbolic, rich in principles yet empty and lacking the power to carry consequences, these statements are shrugged off and ignored.
India: Climate Diplomacy Questioned After COP33 Hosting Withdrawal
- Inter Press Service
India has withdrawn its bid to host the 2028 United Nations climate summit, a move that indicates a recalibration of its global climate engagement even as it projects itself as a leader in renewable energy and climate action.
Governing the Ungovernable
- Inter Press Service
Where does real power reside in the UN development system? A new policy brief from Cepei, a Colombian development policy institute, and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), presented earlier in May, poses this deceptively simple question. The answer matters because institutions that cannot govern fairly or transparently struggle to sustain legitimacy, and legitimacy is essential for peace.
One of the Oldest Agricultural Innovations Needs New Actions
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 19 (IPS) - For thousands of years, humans have kept bees. Beekeeping is a key agricultural activity, yet its full potential remains largely unrealized. Beekeeping produces far more than honey and generates far more income than many have chosen to acknowledge.
Desperate Nooria Disguises Herself to Provide for Her Family
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, May 19 (IPS) - Nooria is a young girl who, because of poverty and the absence of a man in her family, had to dress in boys’ clothes so she could work and feed her family. It was not a choice, it was survival. But she was eventually caught by the Taliban.
How Am I Going To Die?
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, May 19 (IPS) - With death being an inevitable outcome, a fundamental question that crosses the minds of practically everyone is: “How am I going to die?”
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