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Pakistan: Looking to Hydropower to Assure More Reliable Electricity
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 22 (IPS) - "We are lucky a local dam will give us cheap and uninterrupted power supply. Currently, we remain without electricity for 14-16 hours every day," Muhammad Shafique, a schoolteacher in Upper Dir, told IPS.
Terrace Farming - an Ancient Indigenous Model for Food Security
- Inter Press Service
CASPANA, Chile, Oct 21 (IPS) - Terrace farming as practiced from time immemorial by native peoples in the Andes mountains contributes to food security as a strategy of adaptation in an environment where the geography and other conditions make the production of nutritional foods a complex undertaking.
Africa's Senior Citizens Cornered By Poverty
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI and HARARE, Oct 21 (IPS) - Kenya has made tremendous steps towards ensuring that the elderly population does not slide into extreme poverty, hunger and, consequently, premature death.
Argentine Wine, to Toast for a More Sustainable Planet
- Inter Press Service
LUJÃN DE CUYO, Argentina, Oct 20 (IPS) - The region of Cuyo in west-central Argentina is famous for its vineyards. But it is one of the areas in the country hit hardest by the effects of climate change, such as desertification and the melting of mountain top snow. And local winegrowers have come up with their own way to fight global warming.
Opinion: Demography and Destiny
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (IPS) - The demographic revolutions the world is experiencing are profound and far-reaching, affecting virtually every aspect of human society. Whether in politics, business, international relations, environmental affairs or even personal matters, understanding the fundamental demographic changes underway and anticipating their juggernaut consequences can contribute considerably to the setting of meaningful goals, designing effective strategies and achieving genuine progress.
Opinion: The Unlikely Chance of a Serious Human Rights Debate in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 19 (IPS) - Nearly a month since Pope Francis ended his historic visit to Cuba, any hope that authorities would loosen control on free expression in the country is fading as fast as the chants that welcomed him.
Angus Deaton: An Appreciation
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 19 (IPS) - After Adam Smith and Amartya Sen, Angus Deaton, this year's Nobel laureate in economics, has contributed most to broaden and enrich our understanding of human well-being. His brilliant and path-breaking contributions to the theory and measurement of consumption, poverty, inequality, nutrition – and, more recently, aging, morbidity and suicides – have inspired a generation of economists to carry out reformulations, refinements and extensions.
Native Women Green the Outskirts of the City, Feed Their Families
- Inter Press Service
SUCRE, Bolivia, Oct 17 (IPS) - The hands of women who have migrated from rural areas carefully tend to their ecological vegetable gardens in the yards of their humble homes on the outskirts of Sucre, the official capital of Bolivia, in an effort to improve their families' diets and incomes.
Opinion: Having to Choose, A Nation’s Agonizing Immigration Duty
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Oct 15 (IPS) - It's auniversally acknowledged truth that no nation can sustain open borders. Even the wealthiest, most popular "nations of immigrants" like the US cannot possibly accept everyone who wants to immigrate here or even qualifies to do so.
Youngster Uses Technology to Fight Teen Pregnancy in Honduran Village
- Inter Press Service
PLAN GRANDE, Honduras, Oct 14 (IPS) - Four years ago, Cinthia Padilla, who is now 16, learned how to use a computer in order to teach children, adolescents and adults in this isolated fishing village in northern Honduras how to use technology to better their lives.
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