Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 193
Northeast Nigeria: Urgent Need to Combat Deadly Cholera Outbreaks
- Inter Press Service
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov 12 (IPS) - Janet Cherono is Norwegian Refugee Council's Program Manager in Maiduguri.
The number of people who have been affected by cholera in northeast Nigeria has increased to 10,000. The disease is spreading quickly in congested displacement camps with limited access to proper sanitation facilities.
Five Considerations for Pakistan’s New Minister for National Food Security and Research
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 12 (IPS) - Despite the fact that Pakistan's industrial and services sector continue to grow in importance, what happens in the agriculture sector remains critical to the performance of Pakistan's economy and the wellbeing of its people.
Only Acting Together Can We Stop the Rise in Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 08 (IPS) - Julio Berdegué is FAO Regional Representative, Marita Perceval is Director of UNICEF in Latin America and the Caribbean, Miguel Barreto is Regional Director of WFP.
The number of undernourished people increased for the third consecutive year in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has exceeded 39 million people. In addition, almost one in four adults is obese, while overweight affects 250 million; more than the entire population of Brazil.
Making Agriculture Cool
- Inter Press Service
WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands, Nov 08 (IPS) - At every conference she has attended on the youth, Nawsheen Hosenally has been frustrated to hear that agriculture is not ‘cool’. The 29-year-old graduate in agricultural extension and information systems knew she wanted to do something to redeem the image of agriculture among young people.
Empowering Women in Post-Conflict Africa
- Inter Press Service
SANTA BARBARA, California, Nov 08 (IPS) - Amber Rouleau is with the communications office for African Women Rising.
While its conflict ended in 2007, Northern Uganda struggles with its legacy as one of the most aid-dependent regions in the world.
Alert! Hunger and Obesity on the Rise in Latin America for Third Year in a Row
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 08 (IPS) - "For the third consecutive year there is bad news" for Latin America and the Caribbean, where the numbers of hungry people have increased to "39.3 million people," or 6.1 percent of the population, Julio Berdegué, FAO's regional representative, said Wednesday.
Rainwater Harvesting Eases Daily Struggle in Argentina's Chaco Region
- Inter Press Service
LOS BLANCOS, Argentina, Nov 06 (IPS) - "I've been used to hauling water since I was eight years old. Today, at 63, I still do it," says Antolín Soraire, a tall peasant farmer with a face ravaged by the sun who lives in Los Blancos, a town of a few dozen houses and wide dirt roads in the province of Salta, in northern Argentina.
The Caribbean Island of Mayreau Could be Split in Two Thanks to Erosion
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, Nov 06 (IPS) - As a child growing up in Mayreau four decades ago, Filius "Philman" Ollivierre remembers a 70-foot-wide span of land, with the sea on either side that made the rest of the 1.5-square mile island one with Mount Carbuit.
Ambitious Agenda, Ambitious Financing? UNGA Shows a Long Way Still to Go for SDGs
- Inter Press Service
LONDON / NEW YORK, Nov 05 (IPS) - John Garett & Kathryn Tobin, WaterAid
There was a much-needed focus on financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the September 2018 opening of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Cholera Threatens a Comeback Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
TEXAS, USA, Nov 02 (IPS) - Cholera outbreaks across history regularly killed a hundred thousand or more. It isn't well known today because it was essentially eliminated in the Western world.
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