News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 59
His Zest For Mandarins Soured, Pakistani Producer Turns To Mushrooms
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Pakistan, Oct 11 (IPS) - The zesty citrus whiff from the rows of trees boasting unripe kinnow (mandarins) freshens the autumn air in late September. Two deeply tanned men clear the ground under and between the trees to plant vegetables.
University Outreach Project Teaching Tissue Culture to Potato Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Oct 11 (IPS) - Until a few years ago, Kenyan potato farmer Richard Mbaria used to harvest just four tonnes of the crop from an acre of land thanks to poor quality seeds, combined with an attack on the crop by pests and diseases.
Bangladesh Reaching Out To Global Partners To Transform Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Oct 10 (IPS) - Bangladeshi businessman Kazi Inam Ahmed is building his dream in a village near Rupsha River in Khulna, southern Bangladesh—to develop fish farming in the region, where climate change is reducing the ocean’s catch. He envisions creating small ponds, which would employ local climate affected fisherfolk, then exporting the international quality harvest to the Netherlands.
Delivering Quality Education in Small Island Developing States
- Inter Press Service
APIA, Samoa, Oct 10 (IPS) - With 147 million children around the world missing half of their in-person instruction over the last two years and around 24 million never returning to school, humanity is experiencing a deep learning crisis.
Addressing the Cow in the Room, Lowing for Nutrition and Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, Oct 07 (IPS) - Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment.
Small Farmers in Peru Combat Machismo to Live Better Lives
- Inter Press Service
CUZCO, Peru, Oct 06 (IPS) - "My father was very ‘machista’, he used to beat my mother... It was a very sad life," said Dionisio Ticuña, a resident of the rural community of Canincunca, on the outskirts of the town of Huaro, in the southern Peruvian highlands region of Cuzco more than 3,000 meters above sea level.
Nepal Government, UN Agency Seek Investors for Latest Cash Crop to Boom in Country's East
- Inter Press Service
SALAKPUR, Nepal, Sep 29 (IPS) - Two and a half hours’ drive north from Kakarbhitta, Nepal’s eastern-most border crossing with giant neighbour India, lies the hilly hamlet of Salakpur where lives Kaushila Moktan, a famed farmer of large cardamom.
Hard Hit By Climate Change, Villagers Raise a Forest on Their Own
- Inter Press Service
Sep 28 (IPS) - Some ten years ago, Sheemanto Chatri, a 39-year-old farmer hailing from India's northeastern state of Meghalaya, was reeling with distress. The unseasonal rainfall had washed away all the crops he had cultivated after year-long labor in his far-off hamlet.
Go and Tell the Hungry that Their Food Is Being Thrown in the Garbage
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Sep 28 (IPS) - These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every single year, the equivalent of one ton per each of the one billion hungry people, many of them are those who produced the food.
We Need Urgent Commitment, Resources & Action to Tackle Hunger Crisis
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 27 (IPS) - Last week, as world leaders gathered in New York for the 77th United Nations General Assembly, one topic came up more than most: looming famine. That’s because despite a global commitment to make famine a relic of the past, it is once again knocking at our door.
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