Global Issues
News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 82
URUGUAY: Pulling Small Dairy Farmers Out of Poverty
- Inter Press Service
'The problem is when you're too small, just too small,' says Claudia Pérez, a small-scale dairy farmer in Uruguay, glancing to her left, where her pasture ends just 50 metres from her modest rural home.
BIODIVERSITY: India Bans Farming of GM Aubergine
- Inter Press Service
After India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced Tuesday a ban on the cultivation of Bt brinjal, the country’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop, food security experts and activists said this major farming country has been saved from a biodiversity disaster.
DEVELOPMENT: Crisis Could Open Doors for Change, Says UNCTAD
- Inter Press Service
As the financial crisis continued to threaten world economies last year, the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared: 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.'
Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
- Inter Press Service
The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Improve Rural Diets
- Inter Press Service
Although Huancavelica is the poorest region of Peru, it has more than just poverty, malnutrition and unmet needs. There are also women using their creativity, efforts and traditional indigenous knowledge to improve the diets of their families and communities.
KENYA: Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks
- Inter Press Service
The droughts in the Turkana region were less severe when she was growing up, says Laura Letapalel, and pastoralists could still find some grass and water for their animals. Now, she laments, the droughts are longer and there is nothing to eat.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs
- Inter Press Service
One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living 'on the brink of survival', while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment.
CUBA: Zeolite, Mineral of a Thousand Uses
- Inter Press Service
Cuba, which has major reserves of zeolite, aims to boost exploitation of the mineral, whose properties and uses in products and technologies contribute to protecting the environment.
BIODIVERSITY: EU Farmers Face Genetic Contamination of Seeds
- Inter Press Service
Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German ecological activist.
ECONOMY-EUROPE: Czechs Bank on Cooperatives for Revival
- Inter Press Service
The Czech Republic’s strong heritage of cooperative movements, dating from the interwar period, is serving as inspiration for new initiatives in the post-communist era and acting as 'harbingers of a new global economic system'.
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