News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 58
Droughts Dont Need To Result in Famine: Ethiopia and Somalia Show What Makes theDifference
- Inter Press Service
Oct 28 (IPS) - The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years. Scientists suspect that a multi-year La Niña cycle has been amplified by climate change to prolong dry and hot conditions.
Will The Lettuce Outlast All This?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Oct 27 (IPS) - No. No lettuce, no matter how British it may be, could outlast such a steady depletion of the very foundation of life.
Indian Village Unlocks Treasure of Organic, Indigenous Farming
- Inter Press Service
Jhargram, India, Oct 24 (IPS) - At Jhargram, a far-flung village in India’s West Bengal state, a group of farmers sit together in one of the open fields. They debate, deliberate, and confabulate about the marketing strategy they should use when selling their harvest on the open market.
Farmers in Laos Imagine Improved Livelihoods Thanks to New Cross-border Links
- Inter Press Service
VIENTIANE, Laos, Oct 18 (IPS) - Mountainous terrain in northern Laos has until now restricted chances for farmers and producers in much of the nation to export their goods, limiting them primarily to subsistence farming and also curbing development, education and poverty reduction in their communities.
Bangladesh Coastal People Turn to Digital Devices to Succeed against the Odds
- Inter Press Service
BADARKHALI, Bangladesh, Oct 17 (IPS) - A barefoot young man in rolled-up jeans clutches a laptop as he slogs through a narrow muddy aisle between rice fields on a drizzling late September afternoon. He’s rushing to help a farm couple who are facing trouble with their ducks in a coastal village in southern Bangladesh.
Rural Women Work the Hardest, Produce the Most, Eat the Least
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Oct 17 (IPS) - Make no mistake. Violence against women has been perpetuated, especially when it comes to those who have already been deprived of their basic human rights, as is the case of rural women in over two-thirds of the world.
Poverty Haunts Resettled Farmers in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
MWENEZI, Zimbabwe, Oct 17 (IPS) - Edious Murewa has for years boasted of owning a 10-hectare piece of land, but now the 52-year-old is full of regrets. He faces poverty years after he invaded part of a farm once owned by a white commercial farmer.
Farmers in Bhutan Turn To Asparagus and Strawberries To Boost Incomes
- Inter Press Service
PARO, Bhutan, Oct 14 (IPS) - Zam, 57, sits at her kitchen table looking out the window at her orchard of four dozen apple trees. In the past eight years she has sold only two crates (100 kilogrammes) of the fruit because of poor harvests. She turned her attention to vegetables instead but the production was low because of a water shortage.
World Food Day 2022 Call to Action as 828M People Go Hungry
- Inter Press Service
New York, Oct 14 (IPS) - In this year alone, the global impact of compounding crises demonstrates, more than ever, why food scarcity must be addressed internationally and how there must be a shift in the food and agricultural systems.
Agroecological Women Farmers Boost Food Security in Perus Highlands
- Inter Press Service
CUZCO, Peru, Oct 13 (IPS) - Lourdes Barreto, 47, says that as an agroecological small farmer she has improved her life and that of Mother Earth. "I love myself as I love Mother Earth and I have learned to value both of us," she says in her field outside the village of Huasao, in the highlands of the southern Peruvian department of Cuzco.
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