Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 80
Q&A: Tapping Women's Enterprise to Topple Rural Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Employees at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) may have cause to fear for their jobs after Yukiko Omura was appointed vice president of the United Nations' rural poverty agency in February.
BALKANS: Farming Prospers as Farmers Suffer
- Inter Press Service
Official statistics put Serbian agriculture as the single most productive branch of the economy and one that not only survived the financial meltdown but chalked up a record trade surplus of almost a billion US dollars in 2009.
EDUCATION-URUGUAY: Gardens of Knowledge
- Inter Press Service
'Nature is wise, and if we take the time to observe it, we can learn so much' is the underlying philosophy of a number of innovative programmes being carried out in Uruguayan schools that are using gardens as a teaching resource, explained Edith Moraes, director of the national Primary Education Board.
TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
- Inter Press Service
Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.
MALAWI: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land
- Inter Press Service
Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case.
MEXICO: Scientists Reinvent the Corn Tortilla
- Inter Press Service
The process of making corn tortillas - the filling, age-old traditional food throughout much of Mexico and Central America - pollutes huge volumes of water and consumes a great deal of energy.
MALAWI: Climate Change Is Changing Farming Methods
- Inter Press Service
As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi’s southern district of Chikhwawa.
HEALTH: Potato Drags GM Food Into Europe
- Inter Press Service
Genetically modified (GM) foods appear to be back on the European Union's political menu - thanks to a potato.
DR CONGO: Will Poultry Project Live up to Expectations?
- Inter Press Service
For some seven million Congolese living in Kinshasa the only meat and poultry they could buy to eat since the 1980s was frozen imports from Western countries, distributed locally by a few local businessmen.
U.S.: Hispanic Farmers Seek Redress for Years of Bias
- Inter Press Service
When the Barack Obama administration urged Congress to settle a protracted anti-discrimination lawsuit for 1.25 billion dollars on behalf of African American farmers last week, Lupe Garcia of Las Cruces, New Mexico was paying close attention.
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