Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 58
DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Micro-Credit Helping Farmers to Plough Ahead
- Inter Press Service
Seventeen years ago it seemed like an impossible dream to provide thousands of low-income farmers with a way to borrow small amounts of money. But people working in the tea sector in the rural areas of central Kenya were determined to address farmers’ lack of access to credit. They started the Muramati Savings and Credit Cooperative Society.
LATIN AMERICA: Radioactive Attack on Flesh-Eating Screw-Worm
- Inter Press Service
A biological control method used to eradicate screw-worm, a livestock parasite, in the United States, Mexico and Central America, has just been tested successfully in South America, where its adoption is being considered in the countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
'Food Empires Creating Agricultural Crisis'
- Inter Press Service
Forget speculators, forget biofuel farmers. The real cause behind the permanent food and agricultural crisis is the imperial food regime, squeezing money out of agriculture, a Dutch professor says.
Ending Africa's Hunger Means Listening to Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished. Now, for the first-time, small African farmers have been properly consulted on how to solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their answers appear to directly repudiate a massive international effort to launch an African Green Revolution funded in large part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Okavango’s resurgent floods test disaster management
- Inter Press Service
Despite early warnings about higher-than-usual flooding of the Okavango Delta in 2010, homes, fields, latrines and boreholes in the delta were flooded.
ZAMBIA: Bumper Harvest May Prove an Embarassment of Riches
- Inter Press Service
Buoyed by government’s fertiliser subsidy, Zambia’s farmers produced 2.8 million tonnes of maize in the 2009/10 growing season. Initial delight over the increased harvest - up from 1.8 million tonnes the previous year - gave way to worry as farmers realised they could be stuck with most of the crop.
FOOD-GUATEMALA: Bad Omens for 2011
- Inter Press Service
Guatemala needs to take steps to prepare for even worse problems of hunger in 2011, caused by climate change and farmers' heavy dependence on a few basic crops like corn and beans, experts warned on the occasion of World Food Day, celebrated Saturday.
Nourishing a Budding Sustainable Agriculture Movement
- Inter Press Service
With a record number of people undernourished last year — and that number only down about 10 percent this year — this year's World Food Day, to take place Saturday, carries with it a new sense of urgency. But in the conferences and events being held to commemorate the day, there will also likely be a sense of hope and opportunity.
AFRICA: Hunger Intensifying But Cash Transfers Improving Lives
- Inter Press Service
Chronic hunger is intensifying in Africa, despite the world’s commitment to address this Millennium Development Goal and reduce world hunger by half by 2015.
Lesotho Could Beat Drought With Irrigation
- Inter Press Service
Bonang Charles's fields are a richly green rarity in October's parched landscapes along the Phutiatsana River. It's a vivid demonstration of the limited reach of irrigation to Lesotho's small-holder farmers.
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