Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 69
EDUCATION: Taking Science into the Streets
- Inter Press Service
A group of 80 students, broken into smaller groups with their notebooks in tow, troop through the boroughs of New York City to survey the produce that populates farmers' markets and grocery stores in their neighbourhoods. Across the world, a similar image emerges in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where female students are learning to grow edible mushrooms in their villages.
ICELAND: The Ash Came Down Like a Blessing to Some
- Inter Press Service
'It's unbelievable, the eruption has had a very good effect on the grass,' says farmer Finnur Tryggvason in Raudafell, just beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that erupted in April and continued till late May.
MOZAMBIQUE: omen at Forefront of Resisting Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The Mozambican government has adopted various policies to address the effects of climate change, with special attention to women as studies show that they are more adversely affected by this phenomenon.
WEST AFRICA: New Cocoa Agreement Is a Sweet One, Producers Say
- Inter Press Service
The new international cocoa agreement will provide a positive shake-up in the international cocoa market and ensure better prices for stakeholders, including small farmers.
MEXICO: Conservation Can Be a Weapon Against Poverty
- Inter Press Service
'I cut down all of that section,' said Esteban Martínez as he pointed to a rectangle of land cleared of trees in the central Mexican state of Querétaro.
UGANDA: Getting the Common Market to Benefit the Common Woman
- Inter Press Service
July 1 marks the moment when the East African Community common market protocol kicked into operation. But Ugandan women face several obstacles before they will benefit from the boost that the protocol gives to the free movement of goods, labour and capital.
TRADE: UNCTAD 'Forgets' Real Risks Faced by African Farmers
- Inter Press Service
The latest United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report on science and technology repeats previous calls for a 'green revolution' in African agriculture but contains no mention of the real and present dangers that the international trade and financial framework represent for African farmers.
TRADE-SOUTHERN AFRICA: The End of EPA Acrimony May Be in Sight
- Inter Press Service
Southern African trade ministers have pledged to sign a significantly scaled down economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) before the end of 2010. Could this be the conclusion to years of divisive negotiations?
Produce More Food, Naturally
- Inter Press Service
With the world's population predicted to reach 9 billion by mid-century, the notion that a form of agriculture aimed at producing more from less can put food in everyone's mouth may appear Utopian. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the right to food, begs to differ. The Belgian professor is a champion of agro-ecology, a science that stresses the need to work with nature, rather than to try and conquer and replace them with technology developed in laboratories.
Not Everyone in Peru Is Winning 'Championship' Against Poverty
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian government is taking advantage of the broadcasts of the World Cup football games in South Africa to air an ad touting a reduction in the poverty rate from 48 to 34 percent between 2005 and 2009 as an achievement of the administration of President Alan García.
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