News headlines for “Human Population”, page 430
FAO Highlights Inseparable Links Between Food and Water
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 19 (IPS) - Since food and water are so closely interlinked, there is a lingering fear based on the assumption, if there is no water, there will be no food.
Job Creation Looming Challenge for Post-2015 World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 19 (IPS) - In the aftermath of the global economic crisis and with three years to go until the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, global leaders are struggling to formulate a post-2015 agenda that can address the widespread dilemmas of employment and inclusive growth.
Redoubling Efforts Against Racism in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jun 18 (IPS) - Jokes, songs, crude gestures and epithets that degrade people of African descent are still common in Cuba, despite the fact that the constitution prohibits discrimination based on skin colour, and in spite of more recent political measures, activists say.
Women's Time Has Come
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - Closing the gender gap between women and men on agriculture and food security could free over one hundred million people from hunger.Â
MDGs Fund Boosts Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - Since its founding in 2007 to help developing nations fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and gender discrimination, the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) has financed about 130 joint programmes in 50 countries.
Ending Hunger Is Possible
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 16 (IPS) - Thirty-eight countries were recognised for the first time on Sunday by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation for cutting in half the prevalence of people suffering from undernourishment, one of three targets under the first Millennium Development Goal.
Award Spotlights Indian Women Helping Women
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) - Jassiben, a self-employed potter from Nana Shahpur village in western India, loves summer despite the heat waves and frequent power cuts, because summer days always mean great business.
In Swaziland, Seeds Beat Drought
- Inter Press Service
MAPHUNGWANE, Swaziland, Jun 15 (IPS) - The overcast sky is a sign that it might rain, and Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from rural Maphungwane in eastern Swaziland, is not exactly happy.
No Quick Fixes to Sorcery-Related Violence
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jun 15 (IPS) - Following worldwide outrage over a spate of brutal sorcery-related murders in Papua New Guinea, the government has rolled out a new hard-line approach to spiralling crime in this southwest Pacific island state.
Sowing a Healthier Future
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) - "If there was enough political will to defeat hunger, we would defeat it right now - immediately," says Enrique Yeves, chief of corporate communications at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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