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Guess Who’s Behind Paralysis on COVID19 in the UN Committee on World Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 19 (IPS) - ‘COVID 19 has multiplied hunger and malnutrition challenges. We need transformative action!’ The first speaker at the UN Committee on World Food Security’s (CFS) 49th Plenary Session, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, turned the spotlight on the disastrous impacts of the pandemic that have afflicted communities around the world for close to two years.
For the South, all Roads in Global Economic Governance Lead to Inequality & Vulnerability
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 19 (IPS) - Last week’s annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G20 finance ministers illustrated that despite a historic debt crisis sweeping across developing countries and their urgent need for external financing for health and economic recovery, global economic institutions governed by rich countries do not possess the political will to deliver meaningful solutions. The inadequacy of the G20’s debt relief framework, which has failed to restructure sovereign debt since its inception, stands without change or any fresh effort to mobilize private sector participation in debt relief.
Inflation Bogey Blocking Recovery
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 (IPS) - The bogey of inflation has been revived. Dubious pre-pandemic economic progress, fiscal constraints and vaccine apartheid were bad enough. Now, ostensibly anti-inflationary measures also threaten recovery and sustainable development.
We Will Never Give Up the Slavery Reparations Fight, say Caribbean Rastafarians
- Inter Press Service
DOMINICA, Oct 18 (IPS) - The Rastafarian organizations in the Caribbean are determined that the issue of slavery reparations will emerge from the eclipse of COVID-19.
UNESCO ‘eDNA’ initiative to ‘unlock' knowledge for biodiversity protection
- UN News
To understand the richness of biodiversity across World Heritage marine sites, the UN scientific organization launched on Monday a project to protect and preserve biodiversity, based on the study of environmental DNA - cellular material released from living things into their surroundings.
What Fate for Three Billion of Humans Who Are Born Equals?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Oct 18 (IPS) - While more than a third of all purchased food is wasted in rich, mostly Western States, and a similar percentage is lost in poor countries due to the lack of appropriate harvesting, storage and transportation facilities, over three billion people -- or some 40 percent of world population -- cannot afford a healthy diet. Add to these figures --which were released by UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 16 October this year, marking the World Food Day-- another dramatic fact.
Hamburgers and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Oct 18 (IPS) - Probably no country is more closely associated with the hamburger than the United States. It’s fair to say that the hamburger is the country’s culinary icon. It’s the most popular fast food consumed and readily available from coast to coast.
A School & Cultural Institution Aims to Level the Playing Field for Women & Girls in Rural Uganda
- Inter Press Service
TRONDHEIM, Norway / DENVER, USA, Oct 18 (IPS) - As we honored women and girls last week, on the annual International Day of Rural Women on October 15, we want to highlight how a community is coming together to change the lives and livelihoods of rural women and girls in Uganda.
Food Heroes: Cameroon’s shrimp entrepreneur
- UN News
Anastasie Obama, a Cameroonian woman who set up her own smoked shrimp business, has been recognized by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) as a Food Hero, for her contribution towards unlocking the potential of selling shellfish locally and abroad.
Food Heroes: Ethiopian avocado farmer’s ‘transformational’ crop
- UN News
An Ethiopian farmer has been talking about how avocados have transformed the lives of not just his family but also of people living in his community.
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