News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 9
New Geopolitics Threatens More Food Crises
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 9 (IPS) - Recent geopolitical trends threaten more food crises, especially in developing countries. A new IPES-Food report urges a strategy of ‘resilient self-reliance’, proposing available opportunities to improve equity, sustainability and solidarity.
Europe Must Not Turn Its Back on Rural Women’s Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
ZAGREB, Croatia, June 5 (IPS) - In the hard-to-reach rural community of West Pokot, Kenya, 156 young women crossed a threshold that once seemed out of reach. Their graduation from HER Lab, a workforce skills programme for marginalized rural young women, was more than a ceremony. It demonstrated the power of targeted investment, trusted local partnerships and women’s economic empowerment.
Russia Ensuring Africa’s Food Security
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, June 3 (IPS) - Within the framework of the Expert Council on Africa at Russia’s State Duma, the lower chamber of parliamentarians, during its annual round-table conference, held in late May 2026, focused concretely on food security in Africa.
Increased Rates of Deaths, Displacement and Diesel Amid New Ceasefire Escalations in Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, June 2 (IPS) - Last week on May 28, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) issued an evacuation order to Lebanese civilians ordering them to move north of the Zahrani River, approximately 25 miles from the Israeli border, and roughly 20 percent of the Lebanese territory. These new escalations bring the displaced population to more than 1.3 million people, including more than 300,000 of those people being children. 1.3 million people represents approximately 1/4th of the nation’s population of 5.3 million.
“The Heat Is No Longer Distant: A Global Climate Reckoning“
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 29 (IPS) - ‘As record heat sweeps the world, the climate crisis is no longer a warning for the future, but a reality of the present.’
Connecting the Dots: Quality Seed, Resilient Food Systems and Good Health
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, May 26 (IPS) - It is often said that the quality of seed determines the quality of the produce and, consequently, the sustainability of the entire agricultural value chain, influencing everything from crop yields to nutritional value.
From Seed to Canopy: How a GEF-Funded Smallholder Project is Restoring the Environment, Building Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, May 26 (IPS) - As 52-year-old Alice Onyango walks through her farm in Siaya county, Kenya, you can tell she is proud of her trees, as some tower over her, providing her with shade, while others seem ready to provide her with fruit for the market.
Tea’s Future Depends on Its Farmers
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 20 (IPS) - The tea in your cup this morning began its journey in someone else’s hands. Hands whose work most of us never think about. Almost certainly, those hands belonged to a smallholder farmer tending a small plot of land, plucking leaves by hand beneath long mornings of mist and rain.
The Iran War Exposes the Fragility of Our Fuel-Dependent Food System
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 20 (IPS) - Sharp surges in energy, fertilizer, and food prices triggered by the ongoing conflict in the Persian Gulf strikingly illustrate the deep interconnections between geopolitical conflict, food insecurity, and the fragility of fossil fuel–dependent food systems.
One of the Oldest Agricultural Innovations Needs New Actions
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 19 (IPS) - For thousands of years, humans have kept bees. Beekeeping is a key agricultural activity, yet its full potential remains largely unrealized. Beekeeping produces far more than honey and generates far more income than many have chosen to acknowledge.
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