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Kitchen Gardens are Victory Gardens in Boosting Nutrition and Incomes in Western Kenya
- Inter Press Service
BUSIA, Kenya, Dec 30 (IPS) - Busia County in western Kenya is home to an array of indigenous vegetables. But for decades there has been a shift in popular taste leading to leading to little interest in what is indigenously grown. This relegated the vegetables to the periphery with most farmers cultivating kale and cabbages among other more exotic varieties.
Women Inmates Sow Hope in Prisons in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
IZALCO, El Salvador, Dec 29 (IPS) - Doris Zabala squats down in the field to pull up radishes. She is working on a prison farm in El Salvador, where more and more penitentiaries are incorporating agricultural work and other activities to keep prisoners busy.
Foreign Direct Investment: Myths and realities
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Dec 29 (IPS) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) is perhaps one of the most ambiguous and the least understood concepts in international economics. Common debate on FDI is confounded by several myths regarding its nature and impact on capital accumulation, technological progress, industrialization and growth in emerging and developing economies.
Insecurity in Dominican Countryside Threatens Local Food Supply
- Inter Press Service
MATA MAMÓN, Dominican Republic, Dec 28 (IPS) - "Sometimes we have too much water, which washes everything away," Cecilia Joseph, originally from Haiti, said in heavily accented Spanish while pulling up a ñame root (a kind of yam) on her farm in the municipality of Santo Domingo Norte in the Dominican Republic.
The Power of the Pen
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dec 25 (IPS) - "How would you like it if you were just expressing your feelings and someone just put you in jail?" This is how an eight-year-old American schoolchild asked King Salman of Saudi Arabia not to flog imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi.
French firm attacks Ugandan tax using ISDS
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Dec 25 (IPS) - The heavily criticized legal mechanism, known as ISDS, is an important tool for European companies to pressurize developing countries. This year Uganda joins the rank of developing nations asking themselves: "Why have we ever signed this?"
Mexican Government Ignores Social Impact of Energy Projects
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Dec 23 (IPS) - Mexico's hydrocarbons law stipulates that oil contracts must include a social impact assessment. But this has not been done in the case of the oilfields granted to the country's former oil monopoly, Pemex, or to private companies since the industry was opened up to private investment.
Climate Smart Coffee and Banana Set to Boost East African Farmers’ Income
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Dec 23 (IPS) - Ugandan farmers are increasingly inter-planting coffee, the country's primary export, and banana, a staple food, as a way of coping with the effects of climate change.
Disabled Persons Not Part of AIDS Success in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
SHURUGWI, Zimbabwe, Dec 22 (IPS) - Wheelchair-bound, her body now skeletal from full blown AIDS, disabled 38-year-old Melisa Chigumba attempts to wave away a swarm of flies hovering around her face as she sits outside her home in Chachacha, a remote area in Shurugwi, 278 kilometers south of the capital, Harare.
Accord Calls for First Global Conference on Peace
- Inter Press Service
DURBAN, Dec 22 (IPS) - On 21 November 2015, during ACCORD's 2015 Africa Peace Award celebration, I made a call for the United Nations to convene the first ever UN Global Conference on Peace.
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