Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 76
MOZAMBIQUE: Weather Service Key to Flood Disaster Management
- Inter Press Service
Mozambique's government learned some tough lessons from the devastating floods that hit the country a decade ago. Experts say the disaster management plans drawn up since are a model for other African countries.
Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent
- Inter Press Service
Chanting 'No more slaves! Pay a living wage!', hundreds of farmworkers, students and others marched 22 miles through central Florida for three days, calling on the Publix supermarket chain to pay an extra penny to the impoverished workers who pick their tomatoes.
PARAGUAY: Bamboo Against Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
Uncontrolled expansion of cattle farming in Paraguay has led to 'cutting down trees and planting exotic grasses,' says environmentalist Guillermo Gayo. To put a halt to this practice in the southern department of Paraguarí, the foundation he heads has implemented what is known as 'permaculture.'
AFRICA: Foreign Investors Safeguarded From Obligations to Locals
- Inter Press Service
Parts of the Tana Delta on Kenya’s northern coastline are being leased to foreigners to grow food and bio-fuels for export. Civil society organisations are worried about such deals as they are done without public consultation while safeguarding investors from requirements that could benefit local communities, such as technology transfer.
WATER-ZAMBIA: Lozi Make Annual Migration to Higher Ground
- Inter Press Service
Josias Akataama spent March watching the moon wane above, and flood waters rise from below. Only with the sighting of the new moon, would the men, women and children of Kandiani know when they could leave the water-logged village for higher ground.
AGRICULTURE: Affordable Solution to Costly Pests
- Inter Press Service
The International Centre for Plant Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), based at Mbita, on the Kenyan shores of the world’s second-largest freshwater body, is advocating 'push-pull cultivation' as the answer to feeding future generations in Africa.
ENVIRONMENT: Whaling Profitable but Bad for Iceland's Image
- Inter Press Service
Early April Greenpeace protestors in Rotterdam intercepted seven containers with 140 kg of fin whale meat from Iceland, destined for Japan. They said that the import of whale meat to the Netherlands is illegal, but Dutch authorities turn a blind eye on consignments destined elsewhere.
ARGENTINA: Invisible Rural Women
- Inter Press Service
'I had never worked before, and now I produce kilos and kilos of dried fruit to sell. They taught me how to dry peaches, tomatoes, peppers and grapes, and I decided on my own to try it with melons and pears - and they were spectacular,' Susana Robledo, a proud new entrepreneur from rural Argentina, told IPS.
DR CONGO: Humanitarian Situation Worsens
- Inter Press Service
Fighting between 'Enyélé' insurgents and regular armed forces in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo at the beginning of April left 18 people dead, including nine rebels, and triggered mass displacements from the region's principal city, Mbandaka.
DEVELOPMENT: Farmers on Fringe of Intl Agriculture Policy?
- Inter Press Service
How's this for short-sighted: A billion people go hungry every day, food prices have climbed 30 to 40 percent, climate change is reducing agricultural production - and for the past two decades, the world slashed has investments in public-funded agriculture until it is a pittance in most countries.
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