News headlines for “Human Population”, page 479
Small Farmers in West Africa Need Support - Despite Good Rains
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 05 (IPS) - Despite an abundance of rain, promising good harvests for the current growing season, small-scale farmers and non-governmental organisations are calling for support to smallholders to be maintained with a view to eradicating food insecurity in Africa’s Sahel region.
Abyei Region Still a Stumbling Block between South Sudan, Sudan
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Oct 04 (IPS) - Pressure from ethnic groups along the border, security concerns, and keen interest in resources like oil and land are making it difficult for Sudan and South Sudan – the world’s newest country - to resolve their dispute over the fertile, oil-rich region of Abyei and demarcate their common border. Speaking in Turkey on Monday, Sudan’s first vice president, Ali Osman Taha, called for a referendum to resolve the issue.
Social Inclusion the Key to Venezuela’s Elections
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Oct 03 (IPS) - Whoever wins Venezuela's presidential elections on Sunday Oct. 7 will do so as a result of the idea of social inclusion, which has become dominant in an electorate whose social and political features have changed radically in the last decade.
Reducing Poverty in South Africa by Cutting Time in Traffic
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Oct 02 (IPS) - In South Africa, Bus Rapid Transit systems, which were pioneered to great effect in Latin American countries such as Colombia and Brazil, are being promoted as potentially effective ways of delivering improved public transport services to the urban poor. But experts question whether systems such as these can alleviate poverty to any meaningful extent.
Q&A: UN Urges Men to Join Call to Action to End Violence against Women
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 02 (IPS) - “We have to expand the sense of urgency and indignation towards gender violence,” Dr. Ana Güezmes, UN-Women regional director for Mexico, Central America, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, told IPS on a recent visit to the Cuban capital.
Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Population Goals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 02 (IPS) - Gathered at the Ford Foundation in New York Monday, international luminaries, family planning experts and women's rights activists repeatedly expressed a common sentiment: “I cannot believe that we are still having this discussion today."
Self-Financing that Works for the Poor
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Oct 02 (IPS) - "We were used to losing, so a group of us said to ourselves: let's lose something here," said Carmen Caravallo, describing the start of a "bankomunal", a self-managed microfinance fund based on investment, in her rural community in eastern Venezuela.
Concrete Jungles Growing in Senegal
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Oct 02 (IPS) - In the midst of the building frenzy in Senegal, the construction of buildings that cost less than 60,000 dollars, and thus do not require a building permit, is going unchecked by authorities, resulting in the haphazard and unsafe construction of a majority of homes.
Mexico, the End of the 'American Dream' for Child Migrants
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 01 (IPS) - For many undocumented child migrants from Central America, Mexico is the end of the road in their endeavour to reach the United States, driven by economic reasons, gang violence and domestic violence.
Climate Change Hits Pacific Islands
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Australia, Oct 01 (IPS) - Climate activist Wanita Limpus, from the low-lying island nation of Kiribati in the Central Pacific Ocean, says the outcome of the Rio+20 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in June was a serious letdown for small, developing island states.
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