News headlines for “Human Population”, page 361
The Time Has Come for Agroecology
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 24 (IPS) - "It is time for a new agricultural model that ensures that enough quality food is produced where it is most needed, that preserves nature and that delivers ecosystem services of local and global relevance" – in a word, it is time for agroecology.
OPINION: The Fight Against the Long-Term Affects of Child Hunger Reaches Fever Pitch
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 24 (IPS) - Eric Turyasingura chases after a ball made from plastic bags outside his mud-brick home in the mountains of southern Uganda. Yelling in his tribal tongue, Nkore, "Arsenal with the ball! Arsenal with the ball!" he jostles with his younger brothers for possession.
Mission Midwife: The Case for Trained Birth Attendants in Senegal
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Sep 24 (IPS) - Diouma Tine is a 50-year-old vegetable seller and a mother of six boys. In her native Senegal, she tells IPS, motherhood isn't a choice. "If you're married, then you must have children. If you don't, then you don't get to stay in your husband's house, and no one will respect you."
Water: A Defining Issue for Post-2015
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sep 23 (IPS) - A gift of nature, or a valuable commodity? A human right, or a luxury for the privileged few? Will the agricultural sector or industrial sector be the main consumer of this precious resource? Whatever the answers to these and many more questions, one thing is clear: that water will be one of the defining issues of the coming decade.
Urban Population to Reach 3.9 Billion by Year End
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23 (IPS) - People living in cities already outnumber those in rural areas and the trend does not appear to be reversing, according to UN-Habitat, the Nairobi-based agency for human settlements, which has warned that planning is crucial to achieve sustainable urban growth.
On Sri Lanka’s Tea Estates, Maternal Health Leaves a Lot to Be Desired
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 23 (IPS) - A mud path winds its up way uphill, offering views on either side of row after row of dense bushes and eventually giving way to a cluster of humble homes, surrounded by ragged, playful children.
Saving the Lives of Cameroonian Mothers and their Babies with an SMS
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Sep 23 (IPS) - "You can't measure the joy in my heart," Marceline Duba, from Lagdo in Cameroon's Far North Region, tells IPS as she holds her grandson in her arms.
Experts Warn of Dire Consequences as Lake Victoria's Water Levels Drop Further
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 23 (IPS) - Over the years, Cassius Ntege, a fisherman from Kasenyi landing site on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria has observed the waters of the lake receding. And as one of the many who depend on the lake for their livelihoods, he has had to endure the disastrous consequences of the depleting lake.
U.N. High-Level Summits Ignore World's Political Crises
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 (IPS) - As the 69th session of the General Assembly took off with the usual political pageantry, the United Nations will be hosting as many as seven "high-level meetings", "summits" and "special sessions" compressed into a single week - the largest number in living memory.
Mongolia’s Poorest Turn Garbage into Gold
- Inter Press Service
ULAANBAATAR, Sep 22 (IPS) - Ulziikhutag Jigjid, 49, is a member of a 10-person group in the Khan-Uul district on the outskirts of Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar, which is producing brooms, chairs, containers, and other handmade products from discarded soda and juice containers.
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