Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 70
Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Security
- Inter Press Service
With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over the last half-century.
AFRICA: Cautionary Notes Sounded as South-South Trade Booms
- Inter Press Service
An Indian textile engineer and entrepreneur called Raj Rajendran visited Rwanda in 1999. He was tasked to close down an unviable textile factory following the civil war. But he discovered propitious agro-climatic conditions, particularly volcanic soil -- ideal for the rearing of silk worms to produce raw silk.
Haitian Farmers Leery of Monsanto's Largesse
- Inter Press Service
Haitian farmers are worried that large transnational corporations like Monsanto are attempting to gain a larger foothold in the local economy under the guise of earthquake relief and rebuilding.
ARGENTINA: Turning Wasteland into Woodland
- Inter Press Service
In Santiago del Estero, one of the Argentine provinces hit hardest by deforestation and desertification, an oasis of native tree species is being created to restore the soil and entice back farmers who were forced to leave their land.
UNDP Unveils Agenda to Spur Anti-Poverty Goals
- Inter Press Service
After an economic assessment of some 50 countries, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) has come up with a 'concrete action agenda' to accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
PARAGUAY: 'Pause' Farming Expansion in Gran Chaco, Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
Extensive cattle farming in northwestern Paraguay is the leading cause of deforestation in the Gran Chaco, one of the world's leading regions in biodiversity and South America's second largest forested area, after the Amazon.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Food Security Further Undermined by Climate Disasters
- Inter Press Service
Adverse climatic conditions and weather-related disasters are damaging crops in El Salvador and neighbouring countries in Central America, aggravating the food vulnerability that the region already faces.
LATIN AMERICA: Predatory Harvests
- Inter Press Service
Industrial-scale monoculture farming is violating the human rights to adequate food and housing, as well as labour, territorial and environmental rights in Latin America, according to a report released Monday in the Mexican capital.
TRADE: 'Cotton Dossier' Will Make or Break WTO’s Doha Round
- Inter Press Service
The 'cotton dossier' has become a litmus test for the 'development dimension' of the languishing Doha Round trade negotiations, World Trade Organisation (WTO) director general Pascal Lamy admitted.
FOOD: Something's Rotten in Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of tonnes of basic foods rotted in the last year in shipping containers belonging to the Venezuelan government. Fully two-thirds of the food consumed by Venezuela's 27 million inhabitants is imported.
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