News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 88
R & D Expenditure: How to Raise It and Why
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Dec 14 (IPS) - Economic growth is the time-tested method of raising living standards and, if not accompanied by large increases in inequality, lowering poverty. Since World War II, economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, including in South Asia.
Can Agricultural Apps Bring Indonesia's Farmers Back to the Fields?
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Dec 10 (IPS) - When his friends prodded him to use an agricultural app in July, rice farmer Mustafa reluctantly downloaded RiTx Bertani into his smart phone. Four months later, he feels happy to have given the technology a try.
Choice and Opportunity for African Farmers Will Transform Africa
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Dec 07 (IPS) -
A hungry man is not a free man. He cannot focus on anything else but securing his next meal.
So proclaimed the late Kofi Annan.Fixing the Food System to Produce Healthy Diets
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Dec 03 (IPS) - As the world accelerates towards achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, it is time to replace the current broken food system. With only a decade left to reach the deadline, evidence shows that the way food is produced, processed and transported is not only destructive to the environment but it is also leaving millions behind.
How to Reap the Benefits of Food as Medicine
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Dec 02 (IPS) - COVID-19 has magnified global food insecurity and is driving unhealthy eating and worsening malnutrition, food experts say. They have called for deliberate global investment in food as medicine on the back of growing diet-related illnesses.
Digitisation Could Transform African Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Dec 02 (IPS) - Placing an online order for farming inputs saves Velebantfu Dlamini about USD12 in transport fees for a round trip of about 320 kilometres. The 26-year-old vegetable farmer from Nkhungwini in the Shiselweni Region, south of Eswatini, uses a portal to order from the National Agriculture Marketing Board (NAMBoard) Farm Store. NAMBoard then delivers his order leaving Dlamini with time to stay in the field and look after his crops.
COVID-19 an Opportunity to Build Resilience around Food Systems
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Dec 01 (IPS) - The Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has appealed to the United Nations to educate citizens to use their roles as consumers to create a momentum for change. This was ahead of the 2021 Food Systems Summit which the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, will host on November 25 next year.
Q&A: Five Years is Sufficient Time for a Food Revolution
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany/BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 30 (IPS) - In March, after the World Health Organisation first declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations activated a global corporate emergency mechanism for the first time. It had already written to all donor countries asking for $1.9 billion in front-loaded funding, and had begun emergency procurement. Its priority was to sustain life-saving assistance first.
Q&A: Vote with your Fork for a World Free from Hunger
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 30 (IPS) - A world free from hunger is possible but only if we change how we grow and eat food. And resetting the food system — including all aspects of production, processing, marketing, distribution and the consumption and nutrition of food — is key to securing a sustainable food future post COVID-19.
UN Warns of an Impending Famine With Millions in Danger of Starvation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (IPS) - The numbers are staggering — as reflected in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic which has triggered a new round of food shortages, famine and starvation.
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