Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 55
'Perfect Storm' Spurred 2007-08 Food Crisis, Study Says
- Inter Press Service
Rising food prices have not yet reached crisis levels but they are expected to remain very volatile for about the next decade, researchers said Thursday.
EGYPT: Soaring Food Prices Squeeze Poor
- Inter Press Service
Prices for most basic food commodities in Egypt have finally returned to earth - more or less - after soaring to unprecedented levels over the summer. But steadily rising food costs in recent years, along with the government's seeming disinclination to take effective steps to regulate the market, continue to be the source of mounting public anger.
AGRICULTURE: U.S. and EU Subsidies Still Out of Bounds
- Inter Press Service
The United States’ policy to double agricultural exports shows that its government 'has learnt nothing' from the last food crisis, a problem reflected in the dramatic increase in that country’s trade-distorting farm subsidies between 2007 and 2008.
Mexican Farms Need a Water Revolution
- Inter Press Service
Without financing, many Mexican farmers cannot improve their ageing irrigation systems, which are essential if Mexico is to withstand the effects of climate change and reduce its emissions of greenhouse-effect gases.
Pulling Together To Protect Zambia's Kafue Flats
- Inter Press Service
Dams, sugarcane plantations and rapidly growing population threatened the health of the Kafue Flats, a richly diverse wetlands in southern Zambia. But growing recognition of more sustainable use of its water and fertile soil are securing the health of the ecosystem.
ETHIOPIA: First Carbon Finance Spreads Green Over Highland
- Inter Press Service
It has been decades since the people of the Humbo Woreda have been self-sufficient in food. A Clean Development Mechanism project - Ethiopia's first - centred on the reforestation of the plateau at the heart of the district, is restoring the local environment - and sustainable livelihoods along with it.
New Staple Crop Varieties Take Aim at Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
When the Green Revolution took root in the 1960s and 1970s, plant biologists' main concern was increasing the yield of the staple crops on which people in poor countries depended. This, it stood to reason, would increase the amount of food available to the world's poor — and decrease hunger.
BRAZIL: Battle Between Jungle and Livestock in the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
'Put yourself in God's hands,' his mother told him just before she died. Only later did he understand that as she was dying of kidney failure, she was urging him to continue her work as a Catholic evangelist.
Caribbean Fighting a Losing Battle Against Food Imports
- Inter Press Service
For much of late October, Caribbean ministers of agriculture, journalists, farmers and academics gathered in this tiny but picturesque south Caribbean island in a rearguard bid to refocus a region used to existing mostly for tourism on agriculture, given a mounting food import bill and fears of yet another global food crisis.
HAITI: Quake Refugees Seek Moratorium on Evictions
- Inter Press Service
The children standing at the tent beside the filthy pool of water put their needs simply when asked what they wish for: 'À manger; l'école,' they said, practically in unison. In English, 'We want to eat; we want to go to school.'
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