News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 294
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.
Need to Encourage Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, South Sudan, Apr 08 (IPS) - Facing an unprecedented economic crisis, South Sudan -- the newest nation of the world -- has urged its 12 million inhabitants to turn to agriculture instead of depending on declining oil revenues.
OPINION: Learning for History for Progress
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 07 (IPS) - The Chinese character for crisis combines the characters for ‘danger' and ‘opportunity'. Our ability to improve the human condition depends critically on our ability to recognize and address dangers, but also to seize opportunities made possible by recognizing that crises offer rare opportunities to pursue extraordinary options not normally available.
War zones littered with more than just land mines
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 04 (IPS) - Land mines are not the only type of explosive devices that families returning home after conflicts risk stumbling across, representatives from the UN's Mine Action Service (UNMAS) told journalists here Monday.
Heavy Rains Once Again Scatter the Poor in Asunción
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCION, Apr 01 (IPS) - Néstor Colman, 69, remembers the river overflowing its banks nine times in Bañado Sur, the poor neighourhood in the Paraguayan capital where he was born and has lived all his life. "A record," he jokes.
International Community Falls Short on Syrian Resettlement
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 31 (IPS) - "We cannot respond to refugee crises by closing doors and building fences," said UN High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi in his opening address to a high-level event in Geneva.
By the end of the meeting, however, the international community remained reluctant to welcome refugees.
Challenges of Polio Vaccination
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Mar 29 (IPS) - Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two remaining polio-endemic countries, have joined forces to eradicate poliomyelitis by vaccinating their children in synchronised campaigns.
Yemen’s Health Crisis is “Critical,” Says WHO
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (IPS) - The health situation in Yemen has severely deteriorated and is critical, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported.
Quake Fear Stalks Kathmandu
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 24 (IPS) - Early evening, there is a play of light and shadow over Kathmandu's famous Durbar Square. The rising monuments, damaged by the April 2015 earthquake, appear as dark silhouettes while large flash lights streak through in between them.
Water Crisis in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Mar 22 (IPS) - A narrow dirty trail snakes through what used to be a small dam in Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme south of the eastern border city of Mutare. And what remains of this once perennial dam is just a small puddle of mudded water; the dirty water is completely covered with thick green algae.
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