Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 77
/CORRECTED REPEAT/SOUTH AFRICA: Racist's Death Highlights Rural Tension
- Inter Press Service
Eugene Terre'Blanche, killed on his farm on Easter weekend, is catalysing racial tension in South Africa in death much as he did in his life.
AFRICA: Monitoring a Changing Climate
- Inter Press Service
The gathering environmental crisis presented by global warming makes effective weather information and prediction a matter of urgency. As Africa's farmers come to grips with adapting to climate change, it may be that the best way to equip them is to involve them directly in collecting the data.
SENEGAL: Small-Scale Irrigation: Key to Rural Development
- Inter Press Service
Over the past four years, the Local Small-scale Irritation Project has spent more than $10.5 million U.S. dollars supporting rural communities in Senegal.
AFRICA: Land Grabs Continue as Elites Resist Regulation
- Inter Press Service
A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever. Private companies are resisting a global code of conduct that would ensure transparency and local elites continue to benefit from deals that encourage corruption and increase food insecurity.
SOUTH AFRICA: Racist's Death Highlights Rural Tension
- Inter Press Service
Eugene Terre'Blanche, killed on his farm on Easter weekend, is catalysing racial tension in South Africa in death much as he did in his life.
ENVIRONMENT-NIGER: French State-Owned Company 'Poisoning' Poor
- Inter Press Service
Recent research by Greenpeace suggests that French state-owned company Areva’s public claims of decontamination of populated areas near uranium mines in Niger are false. High radio-activity persists in towns and rural areas near the mines, affecting some 80,000 people.
MALI: Shea Production Vital to Women's Incomes
- Inter Press Service
Across the semi-arid Sahel region of West Africa, the shea tree prized by women, who produce a butter from its nuts that is a key ingredient in food and cosmetics. However, drought and diseases threaten this source of income.
Q&A: Why Poorest African Countries Should Not Sign the EPAs
- Inter Press Service
It is a 'million dollar question' why African least developed countries (LDCs) would enter into economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU as what remains of especially their agricultural markets will be overrun with subsidised European produce.
Q&A: 'EPAs Will Undermine Democracy in Africa'
- Inter Press Service
The current course of the talks on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) is particularly destructive for low income African countries and may contract democratic space in such countries even further.
URUGUAY: Fighting Climate Change from the Countryside
- Inter Press Service
'We would get up and go to bed every day looking up at the sky, hoping for something to fall, but nothing happened, not even a drop fell,' says María Inés Queiros, who makes artisanal cheese in the southern Uruguayan province of San José.
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