News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 251
Under Pressure. Can COP25 Deliver?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Dec 02 (IPS) - Mass public pressure backed by the weight of scientific reports is starting to bring governments to their senses as the annual UN climate summit kicks off in Madrid today.
Biofortified Food, a Business Boost for Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 02 (IPS) - A start-up in Zimbabwe is producing high nutrition foods using biofortified crops in a bid to fight micronutrient deficiency.
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) leads to night blindness, illness and death from childhood infections. In Zimbabwe, 36 percent of children under five years of age suffer from Vitamin A deficiency, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Care for Economic Development, Then Care for Food Nutrition, Food Researcher Tells Africa’s Politicians
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Italy, Dec 02 (IPS) - Inter Press Service (IPS) journalist Busani Bafana sat down with Busi Maziya-Dixon, a Senior Food and Nutrition Scientist at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) ahead of the 10th International Forum on Food and Nutrition.
Maziya-Dixon warns there is no country which will achieve economic development with an undernourished population.
More than 2 billion people in the world are suffering from malnutrition. This is the result of diets lacking essential micronutrients such as vitamins, iron and zinc, which are vital for the body to function, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Africa’s Civil Society Calls for Action as COP25 Kicks off in Madrid
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 02 (IPS) - During the 25th round of climate change negotiations starting today in Madrid, Spain, African civil society organisations will call on governments from both developing and developed nations to play their promised roles in combating climate change.
Water Is Worth More than Milk in Extrema, Brazil
- Inter Press Service
EXTREMA, Brazil, Nov 29 (IPS) - "They called me crazy" for fencing in the area where the cows went to drink water, said Elias Cardoso, on his 67-hectare farm in Extrema, a municipality 110 km from São Paulo, Brazil's largest metropolis.
Bangladeshi Migrant Female Domestic Workers Face Violence
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 28 (IPS) - Millions of Bangladeshi women are facing violence either as domestic housemaids or as migrant workers in Gulf countries. A few days ago, a video in social media, secretly filmed by a Bangladeshi housemaid employed in Saudi Arabia, caught everyone's attention where she was helplessly crying and begging to be rescued from her abusive employer.
270 Million People are Migrants, Who Send Home a Staggering $689 Billion
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (IPS) - The number of international migrants in 2019 is now estimated at 270 million and the top destination remains the United States, at nearly 51 million, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday.
IDB Modernises Crucial Social and Environmental Safeguards
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 27 (IPS) - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is in the process of modernising the social and environmental safeguards that govern the financing of projects considered vital for the construction of sustainable infrastructure in the Latin American region.
Businesses Have Key Role in Safeguarding Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Nov 26 (IPS) - Unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are the authoritative global reference point articulating the responsibilities of companies to respect and protect human rights.
Social Protection Necessary to Quickly End Poverty, Hunger
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 26 (IPS) - Historically, most social security systems have developed in the formal sector of rich economies. However, most of the poor and hungry in the world live in rural areas, surviving in the informal economy.
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