Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 216
IFAD’s President Houngbo Calls for Investment in Climate Smart Agriculture for Poverty-Free Future
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 16 (IPS) - Implementing climate-smart agriculture is critical to reduce hunger and poverty, according to International Fund for Agricultural Development's (IFAD) new president Gilbert Houngbo.
Drought Pushes 1 in 3 Somalis to a Hunger Knife-Edge
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) - Another famine in former European colonies in Africa and another time in its Eastern region, with Ethiopia and Somalia among the major victims of drought and made-made climate disasters mainly caused by US and European multinational business.
The High Price of Desertification: 23 Hectares of Land a Minute
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 15 (IPS) - Urban farmer Margaret Gauti Mpofu would do anything to protect the productivity of her land. Healthy soil means she is assured of harvest and enough food and income to look after her family.
East Asian Miracle Myth Making
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 14 (IPS) - Even before the term ‘Washington Consensus' (WC) was popularized, it was already coming under great criticism despite the ‘counter-revolutions' against ‘development economics' and Keynesian economics associated with Thatcherism and Reaganomics. At the World Bank, the Japanese Executive Director argued that the WC menu of policy advice and conditionalities had resulted in the 1980s' ‘lost decade' in Latin America and Africa. In contrast, the East Asian region had seen rapid growth and industrialization.
Heavy Toll of Disrupted Farming, Higher Prices and Displaced Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 12 (IPS) - Large agricultural harvests in some regions of the world are buoying global food supply conditions, but protracted fighting and unrest are increasing the ranks of the displaced and hungry elsewhere, according to a United Nations new report.
Murder of UN Investigator Puts Congo Under Mounting Pressure
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 07 (IPS) - The United Nations is stepping up pressure on Congo to ascertain the reasons for the brutal murder of Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalán who was investigating human rights abuses in the country. "The latest news is that the inquiry will continue" says Carl Skau, Sweden's ambassador to the UN.
Renewing Commitment to SDGs: Private Sector Gets Active
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - Just last month business representatives from around the world joined the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund commemorate their work as part of the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG).
Women Small-Holder Farmers, Key Drivers for Sustainable Production
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jun 05 (IPS) - The shouts can be heard from a distance as one approaches Domboshawa, 30 kilometres northeast of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.
Global South Calls for International Body to Fight Tax Havens
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 02 (IPS) - Tax havens are "one of the worst enemies of our democracies," said state representatives during a meeting at the United Nations.
Why international financial crises?
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 31 (IPS) - International currency and financial crises have become more frequent since the 1990s, and with good reason. But the contributory factors are neither simple nor straightforward. Such financial crises have, in turn, contributed to more frequent economic difficulties for the economies affected, as evident following the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession still evident almost a decade later.
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