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AFRICA: Climate Change Worsening Farming’s Trade-Related Woes
- Inter Press Service
Numerous research institutes and international organisations agree that climate change will in the short and medium term worsen Africa's agriculture and food production capabilities, unless greenhouse gases emissions (GHE) are substantially reduced and adequate trade and investment policies put in place.
UGANDA: The Media is Not Free
- Inter Press Service
Every Saturday afternoon at a public house in the capital city, Lynne Anite, a journalism student at Makerere University, would join senior government officials, academics, and even business people to debate about current affairs.
PHILIPPINES: Women in Troubled South Bear Heavy Burden of Conflict
- Inter Press Service
For Father Eduardo Vasquez, setting up 'Bahay Kalinga’ (House of Care) in the province of Maguindanao, is one way of deepening his mission.
MIDEAST: Gaza Gets Ambitious With Mud
- Inter Press Service
On a searing summer morning, workers are adding layers to the mud-brick police station being constructed in Sheikh Zayed, northern Gaza.
Q&A: The Desire To Be An Outsider
- Inter Press Service
'The old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh... And the same thing is happening to my generation.' - Dambudzo Marechera, House of Hunger
THAILAND: Coastal Folk Flex Collective Muscle to Restore Mangroves
- Inter Press Service
Looking across the bay while at a restaurant built on stilts over water, Bonchai Chayapat muses over the transformed landscape once lush with a mangrove forest that today has all but vanished.
CUBA-US: Mixed Messages
- Inter Press Service
While the Cuban government has intensified its protests against the U.S. embargo, typically hostile signals between the two nations have been mixed with hints of a more relaxed tone since U.S. President Barack Obama took office.
GERMANY: The Berlin Wall Came Down, Others Went Up
- Inter Press Service
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, circumstances leading to that landmark event and what really happened behind the scenes remain a subject of debate. Equally controversial is what the fall of the wall brought in its wake.
POLITICS: Defiant China Asserts Role in Global Affairs
- Inter Press Service
The symbolism of Beijing dispatching its second top leader for celebrations with the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il almost at the same time as Washington was deciding to break a tradition by refusing the Dalai Lama a meeting with the U.S. President last week has not been lost on observers here — keen to glimpse ever more signs of China's rise.
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Hurts Also the Well-Fed
- Inter Press Service
Ask food experts whether it is in the interest of well-fed people in wealthy countries to fight hunger, and most will say: Yes. But ask whether we should tell them, and the answer you are likely to get is: maybe not.
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