Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 61
Price Spikes Raise Spectre of Another Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
While global food prices declined for the first half of this year, they have spiked in recent months, according to a new World Bank publication, and this volatility could in turn push up the local food prices of the world's poorest and most malnourished countries.
SOUTH AFRICA: Coal — A New Solution to Fuel Problems?
- Inter Press Service
A new solution to power and fuel problems worldwide may be developed by using a resource long characterised as dirty and non-renewable: coal.
INDIA: Jatropha Boom Yields Tough Lessons
- Inter Press Service
With a gas-guzzler of an economy, India had been spending tens of billions of dollars annually to import petroleum. And so its 2009 policy on biofuels mandated that by 2017, India would have enough biofuel production to cover at least 20 percent of the country’s oil consumption.
BRAZIL: Development Trumps Environment on Election Agenda
- Inter Press Service
With Brazil's elections only about a fortnight away, there is already a clear winner: 'developmentalism.' This position espoused by the two main presidential candidates has relegated pressing environmental issues to a lowly place on the campaign agenda, in spite of the fact that the third contender represents the Green Party (PV).
ETHIOPIA: New Wheat Variety to Deal with Wheat-killer Diseases
- Inter Press Service
Like most farmers in Ethiopia, Jundi Hajji was expecting that the profit from his wheat harvest would be sufficient to feed his family of eight until the next harvest almost a year from now.
HAITI: Hurricanes and the River Flowing
- Inter Press Service
In the evening the lowering clouds burst. Through the night they loosed their torrents on the southeastern coast of Haiti.
Hunger Drops Mere Half a Percent over Last Decade
- Inter Press Service
Ten years after setting the goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from poverty and hunger by 2015, only mixed success can be found for the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the degree of success is dependent not only on what country is examined but which evaluation is used.
BRAZIL: Small-scale Palm Oil Production Is Women's Work Too
- Inter Press Service
'This isn't women's work,' they told her. But Benedita Nascimento is now one of the most outstanding success stories of a family farming programme involving palm oil production in Brazil's eastern Amazon jungle.
MEXICO: Experts Denounce Slant in Corn Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government's subsidies for corn (maize) production since 1994 have benefitted large- and medium-scale growers, to the detriment of small farmers, according to a new study by Mexican and U.S. researchers.
TRADE: It’s the End of the Export-Led Growth Model, Says UNCTAD
- Inter Press Service
While the recovery from the financial and economic meltdown remains fragile in especially the developed world, the outlook for Africa inspires optimism, according to UNCTAD. The agency also believes the crisis might be the death- knell for the export-led economic growth model -- especially African countries should leave it behind.
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