News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 48
DEVELOPMENT-UGANDA: Fair Trade Gives Coffee Farming a Lift
- Inter Press Service
The cultivation of coffee beans for fair trade has turned the fortunes of this historical cash crop around in some poor rural areas on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda.
Rampant Speculation Inflated Food Price Bubble
- Inter Press Service
Billions of dollars are being made by investors in a speculative 'food bubble' that's created record food prices, starving millions and destabilising countries, experts now conclude.
Forest Summit Seeks 'People-Friendly' Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, on a hot and humid day in the Jambi province of Indonesia, a group of local farmers was critically injured after being shot as they attempted to harvest fruit on a contested palm plantation.
SRI LANKA: East Reels Under Triple Whammy
- Inter Press Service
The name Mawilaru will be indelibly linked to the history of over 25 years of civil strife in Sri Lanka, especially its bloody end. It was here that the final phase of the war was triggered in June 2006.
COLOMBIA: Food Prices Rise after Record Rains
- Inter Press Service
Food prices are set to rise in Colombia, due to the combined effects of soaring international prices and local crop losses after nine months of devastating rains. The government expects food prices to rise three percent in February, while independent analysts forecast an increase twice as high.
GUATEMALA: High Staple Food Prices Drive Up Hunger
- Inter Press Service
The rise in prices of corn, beans and other staple foods, driven up by damages to crops caused by extreme weather events, is making it even harder for the poor to afford a basic diet in Guatemala, which has the highest rate of child malnutrition in Latin America.
Mexico Tempted to Shift From Tortillas to Ethanol
- Inter Press Service
Farmers' protests and the rise in corn tortilla prices in late December put temporary brakes on the Mexican Senate, which was preparing to lift the national ban on utilising maize to make fuel alcohol, or ethanol.
RWANDA: Forest Conservation Calls for Carrot and Stick
- Inter Press Service
For years, the various campaigns for sustainable use of forests just passed Pascal Segatashya by. But Rwanda's ambitious Forest Conservation Project eventually found him - and it has transformed his life and livelihood.
COTE D'IVOIRE: New Techniques, New Profits for Tomato Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Even while the country has faced civil war and political crisis, innovative research organisations have worked to meet the challenges of food security and rural poverty.
JAMAICA: Dying Manufacturing Sector Seeks Govt Cure
- Inter Press Service
For close to 10 years, Patrick Marzouca has just managed to keep his tiny car factory afloat in a rapidly declining productive sector.
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