News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 56
A Precarious Fate for Climate Migrants in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 19 (IPS) - After the sea swallowed up her home and family in the Bangladeshi coastal district of Bhola along the Bay of Bengal, farmer Sanjeela Sheikh was heartbroken. Stripped of all her belongings, her fields swamped and her loved ones dead, she contemplated suicide.
Justice for Berta Caceres Incomplete Without Land Rights: UN Rapporteur
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - The murder of Honduran Indigenous woman Berta Caceres is only too familiar to Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Raising Walls Against the Sea
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 12 (IPS) - Facing the bleak prospect of millions of its citizens being displaced in coming years due to sea level rise caused by climate change, Bangladesh is building up existing coastal embankments in a bid to protect coastal lands and people.
Climate Change Leaves Kashmir’s Economy High and Dry
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, May 10 (IPS) - Trudging barefoot on his two-acre piece of land, 57-year-old Mukhtar Ahmad has little hope of growing any crops this year due to the sudden dry spell that has struck Kashmir's winter.
WFO Calls for Farmer-Centred Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
LIVINGSTONE, Zambia, May 09 (IPS) - Over 600 delegates representing at least 570 million farms scattered around the world gathered in Zambia from May 4-7 under the umbrella of the World Farmers' Organisation (WFO) to discuss climate change, land tenure, innovations and capacity building as four pillars on which to build agricultural development.
Farmers Can Weather Climate Change – With Financing
- Inter Press Service
LIVINGSTONE, Zambia, May 06 (IPS) - Merian Kalala, a farmer in Solwezi, capital of the North-Western Province of Zambia, knows firsthand that climate change is posing massive problems for agricultural productivity.
No Farmers, No Food — True But Not Enough
- Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, May 06 (IPS) - Agriculture is the primary sector of all economies. It is the sector responsible for granting food and nutrition security to all human beings. Consequently it is responsible for social stability and health. And it provides work opportunities to families, men, women and youth, and largely contributes to the country Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Farmers Hold Keys to Ending Poverty, Hunger, FAO Says
- Inter Press Service
LIVINGSTONE, Zambia, May 05 (IPS) - With recent data showing that 793 million people still go to bed hungry, ending hunger and poverty in 15 years is the next development challenge that world leaders have set for themselves.
New Generation Aims to Plug Africa's Research Deficit
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Senegal, May 04 (IPS) - The tonnes of uncollected garbage piling up on the streets of her home in Cairo was a brain wave for Sherien Elagroudy.
Indian Women Worst Hit by Water Crisis
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 03 (IPS) - A staggering 330 million Indians, making up a quarter of the country's population (or roughly the entire population of the United States), are currently reeling under the effects of a severe drought, resulting in an acute drinking water shortage and agricultural distress.
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