News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 851
Latin American Legislators, a Battering Ram in the Fight Against Hunger
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 11 (IPS) - Lawmakers in Latin America are joining forces to strengthen institutional frameworks that sustain the fight against hunger in a region that, despite being dubbed "the next global breadbasket", still has more than 34 undernourished people.
Climate Change May Increase World’s Poor by 100 Million, Warns World Bank
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 10 (IPS) - The UN's heavily-hyped Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were approved by more than 160 world leaders at a summit meeting in September, are an integral part of the world body's post-2015 development agenda, including the eradication of hunger and poverty by 2030.
Analysis: Is Empowerment of Women a Will-o’-the-Wisp?
- Inter Press Service
PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON, Nov 10 (IPS) - Few dispute that women's autonomy and betterment of their lives are moral imperatives. But whether these are also key to economic development is contested.
Frequent floods intensify migration, food security in Pakistan’s mountainous north
- Inter Press Service
Ghizer, Pakistan, Nov 10 (IPS) - Ishaq Khan shivers as he recounts an unfortunate flash flood in 2010, which covered his maize and potato crop with mud and washed away over a dozen fruit trees he planted 45 years ago.
OPINION: Refugee Crisis - Diverting Funds From Civil Society is a Bad Idea
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 10 (IPS) - Europe is in the throes of a refugee crisis and it's not difficult to see that it does not quite know how to respond to it. By mid-October more than 600,000 people had reached Europe by sea.
Opinion: From Despair to Hope: Fulfilling a Promise to Mothers and Children in Mandera County
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 09 (IPS) - Mandera in northeastern Kenya, has often been described as "the worst place on earth to give birth." Mandera's maternal mortality ratio stands at 3,795 deaths per 100,000 live births, almost double that of wartime Sierra Leone at 2,000 deaths per 100,000 live births.
School Meals Bolster Family Farming in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
ITABORAÃ, Brazil, Nov 09 (IPS) - "That law should have existed since the end of slavery, which threw slaves into the street without offering them adequate conditions for working and producing, turning them into semi-slaves," said Brazilian farmer Idevan Correa.
Disaster Strikes Pakistan’s Khyber Region, Aid Efforts Slow in Coming
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 09 (IPS) - Jauhar Shah lost everything. His house came tumbling down while his family was sleeping. He survived but his wife and daughter did not. The October 26 tremor measuring 8.1 Richter scale changed his life forever.
Parliamentarian Forum to Set New Goals Against Hunger
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Nov 07 (IPS) - Undertaking the challenge of pushing for new legislation to guarantee food security in their countries, legislators from Latin America and the Caribbean, together with guest lawmakers from Africa and Asia, will hold the Sixth Forum of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger Oct. 15-17.
Climate Change Threatens Flavours of Argentine Wine
- Inter Press Service
MENDOZA, Argentina, Nov 05 (IPS) - Purple garlic that is losing its color? More translucent wine? Climate change will also affect the flavours of our food in the absence of measures to mitigate the impacts of global warming, which are already being felt in crops that are basic to local economies, such as in the Argentine province of Mendoza.
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