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ENVINRONMENT-SRI LANKA: Saving the Island’s Remaining Coral Reefs
- Inter Press Service
It is Saturday morning and the Pollhana beach, 160 kilometres south of the capital Colombo, is jampacked as usual with local and foreign tourists alike, who are either playing in the sand or bathing in its calm, shallow water, which is gleaming under the sunlight.
U.N. Biodiversity Plan Demands Voice for Women
- Inter Press Service
Women provide up to 90 percent of the rural poor's food and produce up to 80 percent of food in most developing countries, and yet they are almost completely ignored when policy decisions are made about agriculture and biodiversity.
Agro-Tech Alone No Panacea for Food Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
Providing technology to communities to ensure food security doesn't work if local traditions and social dynamics are not taken into account, concluded the participants in a forum here at the Fourth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility.
MEXICO: Optimism and Unease as Census Begins
- Inter Press Service
The 100,000 pollsters who will begin knocking on doors throughout Mexico Sunday for the national census will likely face a population hesitant to provide personal information. They may also run into the drug violence that plagues some areas of the country.
SOUTH AFRICA: Will Soccer World Cup Attract Human Traffickers?
- Inter Press Service
A fierce debate has erupted over claims that the 2010 Soccer World Cup will fuel the trafficking of women from African and other countries to South Africa for sexual exploitation during the cup, which starts on Jun 11.
Q&A: 'Aboriginal Women Need to be Leading from the Front'
- Inter Press Service
At the beginning of 2011, Australian Aboriginal woman Megan Davis will join a select group of indigenous experts from around the world.
Universal Education an Empty Promise for Liberia's Girls
- Inter Press Service
In a small office tucked behind the stairwell in Liberia’s Ministry of Education, the once-proud staff of the Girls’ Education Unit appear defeated.
Rise of the 'Flexions'
- Inter Press Service
In 2005, ahead of the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Irish rock star and philanthropist Bono dedicated a concert to Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs for his services to global poverty alleviation.
Q&A: 'Agrarian Reform Is Indispensible for Haiti'
- Inter Press Service
In the wake of unimaginable death and destruction, Haitian farmers continue to work hard to wring food for their country out of a depleted land. But now they have company.
AGRICULTURE: Africa Should Take Lessons from China -- IFPRI
- Inter Press Service
The model of agriculture applied by the People’s Republic of China during the last 30 years is an example that the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa should follow in their quest for development and growth and to eradicate poverty, according to agricultural experts.
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