Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 265
Analysis: Are Young People the Answer to Africa's Food Security?
- Inter Press Service
Lusaka, Zambia, Nov 24 (IPS) - Are you young, energetic, creative, ambitious and need a job? Africa's agriculture sector needs you!
OPINION: Keep Family Farms in Business with Youth Agripreneurs
- Inter Press Service
IBADAN, Nigeria, Nov 23 (IPS) - Finding a way to allow youth to contribute their natural and ample energies to productive causes is increasingly the touchstone issue that will determine future prosperity.
Aflatoxins: Poisoning Health and Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Nov 20 (IPS) - Aflatoxin contamination is a growing threat to trade, food and health security in sub-Saharan Africa, where smallholder farmers are challenged by food production and now climate change, researchers said.
Where Technology and Medicine Meet in Rural Zambia
- Inter Press Service
Lusaka, Zambia, Nov 20 (IPS) - When health officer Kennedy Mulenga was faced with a male patient developing breasts at the remote Ngwerere Clinic 30km north of the Zambian capital, Lusaka, he logged onto Virtual Doctors to get help solving the medical mystery.
When the Rains Came in Dokolo and Karamoja
- Inter Press Service
DOKOLO, UGANDA, Nov 17 (IPS) - Households in Northern Uganda are recovering from a prolonged dry spell which has devastated harvests and led to food shortages. Long-awaited rains are expected to replenish pastures, and communities are being encouraged to plant short-term crops. But those that can, fear losing their produce again, when the rains stop.
Zimbabweans Align with Climate-Smart Agriculture Amid Food Deficits
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Nov 17 (IPS) - With droughts wreaking havoc in vast areas of Zimbabwe, a majority of people here are fast falling in line with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as food deficits continue.
Uruguay Puts High Priority on Renewable Energies
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 17 (IPS) - Uruguay is modifying its energy mix with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, by means of a strategy that bolsters non-conventional clean energy sources through public-private partnerships and new investment. A majority of this South American country's energy already comes from renewable sources.
African Experts Say the Continent Must Address Livestock Methane Emissions
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Nov 14 (IPS) - Increasing calls for Africa to reduce methane emissions from livestock continue to be met with controversy, and livestock scientists say methane is a forgotten short-term climate pollutant with significant global warming potential that Africa cannot continue to overlook.
Africa Gears for Infrastructural Boom
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Nov 13 (IPS) - The upcoming week for the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), which runs from November 13-17 in Abidjan, the capital city of Ivory Coast, is set to throw this continent into the full gear of infrastructural boom, development experts here say.
Improved Post-Harvest Fish Handling Brings Hope to Western Zambia
- Inter Press Service
MONGU, Zambia, Nov 12 (IPS) - Hadon Sichali has been in the fish trade for over 22 years. But he says only now does he feel a true businessman—but why?
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