Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 78
WATER: Swazi Village Gets a Self-Sustaining Water Supply
- Inter Press Service
No one loves the bill collector, and Sifiso Shongwe gets a chilly welcome as he goes from household to household collecting money for Maphilingo's community water scheme.
UGANDA: Farmers Boxing Clever To Get Ahead
- Inter Press Service
Mayuge district has 31,000 farming families served by just nine agricultural extension workers. In Wainha village, an internet centre run by the Busoga Rural Open Source and Development Initiative is more than filling the gap in assisting farmers.
LATIN AMERICA: Poor, Overweight and Malnourished
- Inter Press Service
Fruit? Maybe a banana now and then. Vegetables? Onions, if they are chopped up in a stew. Meat? No, because they choke on it, and will only eat wieners. Carina Ramírez thinks her children are 'strange': they eat nothing but bread, pasta and sweets, 'and that’s why they’re chunky,' she says.
Q&A: Eco-Friendly Farming Practices to Fight Hunger in Bolivia
- Inter Press Service
The gradual loss of traditional farming practices that preserve the land has pushed into extreme poverty small farmers in Bolivia who 20 years ago were producing surplus produce to sell at market and now are barely able to feed themselves.
ZIMBABWE: 'Farming God's Way'
- Inter Press Service
Mbuya Erica Chirimanyemba is a marvel among women, and men! Watching her digging holes in dry ground earlier this year, her neighbours thought the old lady had gone berserk. But 60-year-old Chirimanyemba was putting an alternative farming technique into practice.
TRADE: Something's Rotten in European Supermarkets
- Inter Press Service
The majority of European supermarkets failed to take adequate responsibility for labour conditions and fair-trade relationships in their food supply chains, a new report revealed.
AGRICULTURE: Turning to Wild Bean for Protein
- Inter Press Service
Obed Kamburona has tried to grow many different crops on his large farm, but the dry sandy soil in Otjovanatje has thwarted him every time.
EAST EUROPE: Organic Farming Blossoms
- Inter Press Service
Eastern Europe's organic food industry is mushrooming as it brushes off the effects of the global recession, and more consumers in the region turn to healthier foods.
UGANDA: NGOs Judging Oil Palm on Hearsay, Says U.N.
- Inter Press Service
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are guilty of judging a palm oil project in Uganda on innuendo rather than its merits, the United Nations poverty agency supporting the controversial scheme said, as the project starts to bear fruit for smallholder farmers.
PERU: The Tangled Paths of New Forest Law
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous protests prompted the introduction of a new legislative bill on forests and wildlife in Peru, the second most forested country in South America. Experts consulted by Tierramérica pointed to what the initiative gets right, but also to what's wrong with it.
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