Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 145
Fixing the Business of Food
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Italy, Dec 04 (IPS) - Milan is the city where Leonardo da Vinci painted his iconic Last Supper. Frozen in time is the moment Christ told his disciples there was a traitor among them. Visitors to the painting can examine the expressions on the faces of the disciples and look the food they might have eaten – the bread and wine, and of course the spilt salt. As one delegate to the 10th International Forum on Food and Nutrition noted, the diet did not seem varied or healthy.
Right to Food Denied by Poor Policies and Inaction
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Italy, Dec 03 (IPS) - Global food systems are ripe for transformation if people are to be nourished and the planet sustainable, says Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur of the Right to Food of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Tradition and Technology Take Centre Stage at BCFN Food Forum
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Italy, Dec 03 (IPS) - A coffee producer will receive a cent and a half from a $2.50 cup of coffee. This one stark fact stood out as scientists, researchers, activists and grappled with solutions for change in food and nutrition practises, which would benefit the greater community.
Inequality and Its Many Discontents
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 03 (IPS) - Much recent unrest, such as the ‘yellow-vest' protests in France and the US ‘Abolish the Super-Rich' campaign, is not against inequality per se, but reflects perceptions of changing inequalities. Most citizens resent inequalities when it is not only unacceptably high, but also rising.
Biofortified Food, a Business Boost for Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 02 (IPS) - A start-up in Zimbabwe is producing high nutrition foods using biofortified crops in a bid to fight micronutrient deficiency.
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) leads to night blindness, illness and death from childhood infections. In Zimbabwe, 36 percent of children under five years of age suffer from Vitamin A deficiency, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Care for Economic Development, Then Care for Food Nutrition, Food Researcher Tells Africa’s Politicians
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Italy, Dec 02 (IPS) - Inter Press Service (IPS) journalist Busani Bafana sat down with Busi Maziya-Dixon, a Senior Food and Nutrition Scientist at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) ahead of the 10th International Forum on Food and Nutrition.
Maziya-Dixon warns there is no country which will achieve economic development with an undernourished population.
More than 2 billion people in the world are suffering from malnutrition. This is the result of diets lacking essential micronutrients such as vitamins, iron and zinc, which are vital for the body to function, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Africa’s Civil Society Calls for Action as COP25 Kicks off in Madrid
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 02 (IPS) - During the 25th round of climate change negotiations starting today in Madrid, Spain, African civil society organisations will call on governments from both developing and developed nations to play their promised roles in combating climate change.
Four Ways to Prevent Deaths from Lassa Fever
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Nov 27 (IPS) - Wouter, a Dutch doctor who helped perform surgeries and train colleagues in surgical skills in underserved areas of Sierra Leone died of Lassa Fever. He was infected as a result of performing a Caesarean section on an infected pregnant woman.
Social Protection Necessary to Quickly End Poverty, Hunger
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 26 (IPS) - Historically, most social security systems have developed in the formal sector of rich economies. However, most of the poor and hungry in the world live in rural areas, surviving in the informal economy.
When African Women are Financially Included, an Entire Continent Wins
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Nov 26 (IPS) - When Rwandan-born and Senegalese-raised entrepreneur and businesswoman Kristine Ngiriye was 18 she had a brilliant idea that she wanted to translate into a business. But when she went to her local bank for a loan they told her to rather get married, because " a woman must be married instead of venturing into business", Ngiriye tells IPS.
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