News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 68
How a Massive Climate Project Can Help Win Peace for Ukraine - And Help African Job + Food Crises
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Ghana, Apr 07 (IPS) - How would the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu have reacted to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine? Differently than you might think.
The invasion of Ukraine is a mass human tragedy. It is killing Ukrainians, exposing families to violent atrocities, and has driven a refugee crisis of over 4 million people and counting. The war in Ukraine has also reawakened our fear of global war - even nuclear war - and the importance we place on global peace.
Perils of Hunger, Food Insecurity in Southern Africa- Challenges & Opportunities
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr 05 (IPS) - Food systems are under severe stress around the world now. The thresholds of tolerance are already exceeding limits with millions facing acute food and water scarcity throughout all continents. Over a quarter of Africa’s population are facing hunger and food insecurity. Conflict, droughts, flooding, rising unemployment, inequality, economic crises, and the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic have been ravaging the Continent on an unprecedented scale.
Indian Agriculture Towards 2030
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr 04 (IPS) - India began its journey as an independent nation in 1947 with fresh memory of the Bengal Famine of 1943 which claimed 1.5 to 3 million lives. Against this backdrop, the First Five Year Plan (1951-56) prioritized agriculture which, however, shifted to heavily industrialization in the second Plan.
School Feeding Is Now the Worlds Largest Social Safety Net
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Apr 04 (IPS) - When Canada and Nepal are used in the same sentence it’s usually because the former is supporting development efforts in the latter. Not when it comes to feeding children at school.
Turning Agro-industrial Waste into Energy in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
ZÁRATE, Argentina, Mar 31 (IPS) - Three giant concrete cylinders with inflated membrane roofs are a strange sight in the industrial park of Zárate, a world of factories 90 kilometers from Buenos Aires that heavy trucks drive in and out of all day long. They are the heart of a plant that is about to start producing energy from agro-industrial waste, for the first time in Argentina.
New Seed Bank to Support Agriculture of the Future
- Inter Press Service
PALMIRA, Colombia, Mar 30 (IPS) - As he points to a white shelf that holds bean seeds, Austrian biologist Peter Wenzl explains that one of them, obtained in Ecuador, provided a gene for the discovery that major seed protein arcelin offers resistance to the bean weevil.
The Middle East's Food Crisis Spells Disaster
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Mar 30 (IPS) - In a short period, the war in Ukraine has already had a major effect on the world economy. The United States and the European Union have levied sanctions on an unprecedented scale against Russia, energy prices have skyrocketed, and with the Black Sea closed, the world’s most fertile region is no longer linked to its markets. This will cause an appreciation of food prices that could wreak havoc in the European periphery.
Why Russia's War on Ukraine Poses a Risk to Global Food Security
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Mar 25 (IPS) - The writer is Research Fellow at the UK-based Institute of Development Studies and member of its Food Equity Centre.The situation in Ukraine is first and foremost a humanitarian crisis, and the food security and wellbeing of the people of Ukraine should be our immediate concern. However, because of the dominant roles of Russia and Ukraine in global food, fuel and fertiliser markets, there are also massive knock-on effects for people around the world. This is particularly true for the supply and cost of food. Here are three ways that the invasion of Ukraine leads to potential risks to food security in other countries.
Donors Must Rethink Africas Flagging Green Revolution, New Evaluation Shows (Commentary)
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON, Mar 23 (IPS) - A scathing new analysis of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) finds that the program is failing at its objective to increase food security on the continent, despite massive funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US, UK, and German governments.
Zimbabwe Crackdown on NGOs Could Impact Election Observation
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Mar 22 (IPS) - Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with a controversial bill that critics say seeks to criminalise the operations of nongovernmental organisations working in the country.
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