Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 62
DEVELOPMENT: Fewer Hungry, but More Hunger Waits
- Inter Press Service
Figures the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) presented here Tuesday revealing a reduction in the world's number of hungry people in 2010 for the first time in 15 years should be a cause for celebration. In reality it is a hollow success.
World Bank Boosts Ag Lending Ahead of MDG Meet
- Inter Press Service
With the Millennium Development Goals review summit just one week away, the World Bank is the latest international player to announce its strategy to help achieve those goals by their 2015 deadline.
Irrigation Transforms Lives in Southern Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
More than a million people will need food aid in Zimbabwe this year. As the government looks to boost agriculture production, one rural community is leading the way by using irrigation schemes to improve food security and income.
ZIMBABWE: Big Market, Bigger Challenges for Matabeleland Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Most fruits and vegetables sold in Bulawayo are imported from South Africa, because farms immediately around Zimbabwe's second city cannot meet demand. Locals are paying high prices as a result.
INDIA: Cereals Rot in the Rain While the Poor Stay Hungry
- Inter Press Service
When India's Supreme Court reacted to the news that thousands of tonnes of grain were rotting in the rain due to lack of granary space and ordered the government to distribute the surplus free of cost to the hungry, it seemed like the logical thing to do.
'Orange' Maize Could Save Eyesight of Millions of African Children
- Inter Press Service
'Orange' maize, a variety of the common cereal crop, could improve the lives of millions of malnourished people by providing increased vitamin A in their diet, according to a new study released here this week.
SOUTH AFRICA: Greening Project Creates Income and Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Frances Mandla is visibly filled with pride. Together with her colleague, Nouniform Nqevu, she stands tall and smiling in front of a wide bed of lush spinach. The harvest will be their ticket to a better life. A life where there is enough money to buy food, clothes and pay school fees.
Harvesting Water to Save Crops and Lives
- Inter Press Service
Peter Kivuti, a 51-year-old farmer from Eastern Kenya, never relied on meteorological weather predictions all his life - until three years ago. It was then that rainfall in the region become less predictable.
MEXICO: Responsible Tourism in a Lost Rural Paradise
- Inter Press Service
It's a mixture of volunteer work and tourism. The visitor pays to spend a few weeks in contact with nature and carry out the chores of an organic farm. The idea behind it all is to cultivate environmental awareness.
INDIA: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
- Inter Press Service
He had decided to grow watermelons this summer on his one-acre (.405 hectare) plot, and so Veera Narayana went about preparing the arid red earth by first ploughing it and then lighting fires in the furrows.
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