Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 71
Argentine Hake On the Brink of Collapse
- Inter Press Service
The Argentine hake fisheries of the southern Atlantic Ocean, among the world's leaders in the white fish market, are on the verge of collapse due in part to the indifference of the Argentine people, who are apparently more interested in beef, a staple of their diet.
Rewriting 195 Million Stories of Childhood Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
In a vast field, a sinewy, dark-skinned man bends at the waist, slicing stalks of wheat with a small machete. In a village, a mother gently places her infant son, slung in a piece of blue fabric, onto a vegetable scale housed in a makeshift clinic.
ASIA: Green Revolution Has Little to Offer New Hungry Mouths
- Inter Press Service
As it took root in the rice fields across Asia, it was hailed as the solution to the hunger afflicting millions of people in the region. But four decades on, the much vaunted Green Revolution appears to have reached its limits, unable to meet new demands, to feed new mouths.
TRADE: Resistance Persists Against Early Harvest in Doha Round
- Inter Press Service
Although the issue of an early harvest for least developed countries (LDCs) has been raised time and again, there remains 'a certain reluctance' to prioritise it in the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade talks, according to South African trade minister Dr Rob Davies.
EAST AFRICA: New Arsenal Against Armyworms
- Inter Press Service
Farmers across Eastern and Southern Africa will soon have a new organic insecticide effective enough to kill one of their most deadly foes — the armyworm.
Windfall for Botswana Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Two of Botswana's biggest breweries are putting smiles on the faces of farmers. No, they are not giving beer away: the breweries are planning to buy sorghum from small-scale farmers at prices far higher than the Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB) is offering.
AFRICA: Climate Change Assistance so Near and Yet so Far
- Inter Press Service
Technology transfer and aid for trade could assist least developed countries (LDCs) suffering the effects of climate change. But negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are not helping to make this a reality, while aid for trade lands up at the wrong institutions, such as the World Bank.
NICARAGUA: Land Titles Liberate Women Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Josefina Rodríguez very nearly lost her life trying to protect the small plot of farmland in rural Nicaragua that allows her to support her family. Twelve years ago her husband wanted to sell the land, and when she stood up to him, he attacked her with a machete, almost killing her.
Q&A: Diversity the Best Option for Cuban Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Cuban biodiversity scientist Humberto Ríos, one of the six recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, probably won't be able to collect the 150,000 dollars in prize money, though that setback is unlikely to cause him to lose any sleep -- or keep him from singing.
ITALY: Daring to Put Mafia Assets to Social Utility
- Inter Press Service
In the small town of Corleone in central Sicily, 13 people, five of whom suffer from psychiatric distress, run a farm on lands confiscated from the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia.
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