News headlines for “Human Population”, page 294
Water Shortages Have a Heavy Impact on Women in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Dec 02 (IPS) - Denia Arrascaeta suffers water shortages on a near daily basis in the neighbourhood in the Cuban capital where she lives. "Sometimes I don't even have water to drink," she told IPS.
Native Seeds Help Weather Climate Change in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
JIQUILISCO /SAN MIGUEL, El Salvador, Nov 30 (IPS) - Knife in hand, Domitila Reyes deftly cuts open the leaves covering the cob of corn, which she carefully removes from the plant – a process she carries out over and over all morning long, standing in the middle of a sea of corn, a staple in the diet of El Salvador.
“París Is Not the End of a Climate Change Process but a Beginning”
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 27 (IPS) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet says the climate summit in Paris "is not the end of a process but a beginning," and that it will produce "an agreement that, although insufficient with respect to the original goal, shows that people believe it is better to move ahead than to stand still."
Opinion: Ending Child Marriage - What Difference Can a Summit Make?
- Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Zambia, Nov 26 (IPS) - The long-awaited African Girls' Summit on Ending Child Marriage is here.
Uganda, Tanzania Need Gender Sensitive Climate Change Policies
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Uganda, Nov 26 (IPS) - Climate Change needs to be at the top of the country's agenda, according to a project examining Uganda's policies. It says the country hasn't paid enough attention to climate change in national development and agriculture plans and this needs to be turned around before it's too late.
Analysis: Are Young People the Answer to Africa's Food Security?
- Inter Press Service
Lusaka, Zambia, Nov 24 (IPS) - Are you young, energetic, creative, ambitious and need a job? Africa's agriculture sector needs you!
Cubans Seeking the American Dream, Stranded in Costa Rica
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSÉ, Nov 23 (IPS) - Thousands of Cubans heading for the United States have been stranded at the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border since mid-November, waiting for the authorities in Managua to authorise their passage north.
Latin American Legislators Find New Paths to Fight Hunger
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 20 (IPS) - With eight specific commitments aimed at pushing through laws and policies on food security and sovereignty, family farming and school feeding programmes, legislators from 17 countries closed the Sixth Forum of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“Jasmine Revolution” Challenges Male Domination of Tea Trade Unions
- Inter Press Service
Thiruvananthapuram, India, Nov 18 (IPS) - Until September this year, Lissie Sunny was not a name known to the Indian public. All of this changed when this lean and dark woman, working for over a quarter century plucking tea leaves in the misty mountain slopes of southern India finally had enough and took on one of the most powerful tea companies in the world.
Latin America to Push for Food Security Laws as a Bloc
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Nov 17 (IPS) - Lawmakers in the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean decided at a regional meeting to work as a bloc for the passage of laws on food security – an area in which countries in the region have show uneven progress.
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