Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 66
RWANDA: Improving the Lives of Small-Scale Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Joelle Nsamira Kajuga, a female agricultural researcher has a ready answer to describe which modified crop will produce a higher yield, which will be resistant to bacteria, and which will ensure food security and generate a higher turnover for poor small-scale farmers in different regions in Rwanda.
CHILE: Salmon Industry Won't Give Up
- Inter Press Service
The once booming salmon industry in Chile is trying to get back on its feet after the devastating health crisis that cut production in half. But its long-term viability has been called into question.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Land Reform Underfinanced and Failing
- Inter Press Service
Mavis Muchena sits on the veranda of her mud hut, a middle-aged single mother of four with a face worn beyond her years and hands creased from working the soil. She should represent the future of a renewed farming boom in Zimbabwe, but instead she represents its failure.
SOUTH SUDAN: Children Too Hungry to Return to Civilian Life
- Inter Press Service
When Timothy was forced into the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) at age 11, the first thing they did was beat him. Then they took him to a military base where his tasks were to carry other soldiers’ bags, wash their clothes, collect firewood for them, and cook their food.
Americas Social Forum Calls for Agriculture Based on Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
Small-scale agriculture based on the principles of solidarity and cooperation is the only way to guarantee food sovereignty in Latin America, said peasant and indigenous activists meeting in the Paraguayan capital this week.
GUATEMALA: Multi-Pronged Effort to Boost Food Security Still Falling Short
- Inter Press Service
'I used to work on the south coast, cutting sugar cane, and I would go all the way to Belize to pick oranges during the harvest. I went through a lot so we could get by,' Héctor Pan, a Q'eqchi Indian in Guatemala who has now abandoned farming to become a river rafting guide, told IPS.
DRC Farmers Welcome Support
- Inter Press Service
Farmers in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo are looking forward to increased production after 16 tractors and 200 ox-drawn carts were distributed across three regions in the province of Bandundu.
MALAWI: A Cellphone, a Bicycle and Sound Agricultural Advice
- Inter Press Service
It is 11 am and Mary Jusa seems unconcerned by the sun beating hard on her back. Humming a traditional tune, she carries on uprooting weeds in her maize field between two water canals.
ECUADOR: All-Out Offensive Against Child Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
The Ecuadorean government aims over the next five years to eradicate chronic malnutrition among children under one -- 10 percent of whom are now undernourished -- and reduce the rate among children under five from the current 22 percent to seven percent.
AFRICA: Modified Banana Could Cure Deadly Disease
- Inter Press Service
An innovation by researchers in Nigeria could be a cure for the devastating Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) - responsible for annual losses in excess of 500 million dollars of crop across East and Central Africa. But it has also fuelled debate on the genetic engineering of crops in Africa.
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