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Smallholders Feed a Nation as Land Reform Fails
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 23 (IPS) - Moses Chiengerere is one of the Zimbabwe's hundreds of thousands of smallholder maize farmers keeping this southern African nation's granaries stocked with the grain.
‘Missing Melody in the Tune of Sustainable Development’
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Jul 23 (IPS) - It is 10.26 am in Kampala and a Ugandan woman is airing her gripe about the opposite sex on the airwaves.
Rouhani Faces Tests at Home and Abroad
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The successful campaign of Iran's President-elect Hassan Rouhani may have been built on the persistence of hope among Iranian voters for a better future.
Q&A: Swiss Cooperation in Cuba Has Broad Focus
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jul 23 (IPS) - "The basic objective of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is people's welfare, and I think that in this we have many affinities with what the Cuban government wants," Regula Bäbler told IPS.
Justice Over G8 Killing Delayed and Denied
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 23 (IPS) - "It was midnight and I was sleeping; I woke up to the noise of the police breaking down the entrance door of the school," says Italian journalist Lorenzo Guadagnucci. "They came in running and screaming. The bashing was immediate, with no chance of mediation."
World Bank “Falling Behind” on Human Rights, Critics Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The World Bank is being urged to explicitly incorporate human rights into its development lending criteria, ahead of an important discussion on the subject by its executive board on Tuesday.
Ensuring Microcredit's Primary Goal Remains Changing Lives
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jul 22 (IPS) - Microfinance is essentially social, but its expansion and evolution towards diversified financial services for those who are excluded from the conventional system has compelled it to develop new codes and practices to reinforce the message that its goal is people - particularly the poor.
Indonesia Comes under Fire for Fires
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 22 (IPS) - With a propensity to devour everything in their path and spiral quickly out of control, leaving behind swathes of scorched earth, forest fires are considered a hazard in most parts of the world. In Indonesia, however, fires are the preferred method for clearing large areas of land for massive plantations of commercial crops.
Support for FGM Slowly Eroding, Global Report Finds
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 22 (IPS) - The United Nations children's agency UNICEF released a report Monday that gives the most complete picture of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) ever published.
Making Peace with Our Futures
- Inter Press Service
BUCHAREST, Jul 22 (IPS) - Future studies, like peace-development-environment studies, is an interdisciplinary, international effort to get a grip on key issues, divided into ‘preferred futures' – utopias – whose?; ‘predicted futures' – forecasting – who does it, for whom?; and ‘future practice' – scenarios bending the predicted toward the preferred – by and for whom?
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