Global Issues
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Genetic Resources to Fight Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 15 (IPS) - With Kenya's meteorological records over the last 50 years indicating increased irregularity and variability in precipitation, the effects of changing climate are hitting hard. Rising temperatures as well other forms of extreme weather events in form of droughts and floods are a common feature.
Opinion: Robust Global Economic Recovery Needs Coordinated Policy Response
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 14 (IPS) - In the wake of releasing the IMF's latest assessment of the global economy, Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld noted in his blog, "Global growth continues, but at an increasingly disappointing pace that leaves the world economy more exposed to negative risks. Growth has been too slow for too long."
Timor-Leste Brings Maritime Dispute with Australia to United Nations
- Inter Press Service
Land Tenure Still a Challenge for Women in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Apr 13 (IPS) - Rural women in Latin America continue to face serious obstacles to land tenure, which leave them vulnerable, despite their growing importance in food production and food security.
Female Engineers Defy the Odds
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Apr 13 (IPS) - Nearly every aspect of modern life is a result of the work done by engineers; from running water to the internet, sky-scrapers to smartphone apps that people use for dating. Sadly, in Tanzania this profession attracts only a few women due to prevalent attitudes that it is a man's job.
What the Panama Papers Mean for Global Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 12 (IPS) - The financial secrecy and tax evasion revealed by the Panama Papers has an extraordinary human cost in developing countries and threatens the realisation of the UN's ambitious Sustainable Development Goals.
What the Panama Papers Mean for Global Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 12 (IPS) - The financial secrecy and tax evasion revealed by the Panama Papers has an extraordinary human cost in developing countries and threatens the realisation of the UN's ambitious Sustainable Development Goals.
Focusing on Future of Food: What’s Next for Global Agricultural Research?
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 11 (IPS) - Food security scientists from around the globe gathered in Johannesburg last week with one objective: to work towards the transformation of agriculture as engine for growth in developing regions of the world. The gathering was also an opportunity to examine what farmers need to prosper in the face of social and environmental challenges.
The Panama Papers: A Global Report Card
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 11 (IPS) - On Sunday, 3 April, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released an unprecedented leak of documents exposing the secretive financial dealings of some of the world's richest and most powerful. Few countries are safe from the findings; twelve current or former heads of state are implicated among 143 politicians, their relatives and associates for using offshore tax havens.
A Promising Start for a High Seas Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (IPS) - Delegates from 83 countries came together at the United Nations from March 28 to April 8 for the first in a series of landmark meetings on ocean protection. This Preparatory Committee will help forge an agreement to determine how nations move forward to protect the high seas—the 64 percent of the ocean that belongs to everyone but is governed by no one.
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