Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 267
Zimbabwe’s Smallholder Farmers Seek Address Food Security and Health Risks with Air Tight Storage Technology
- Inter Press Service
SHAMVA, Zimbabwe, Oct 26 (IPS) - Last season, Mollene Kachambwa lost a tonne of the 5 tonnes of maize the family harvested to weevils and fungi.
Agricultural Keys to Malaria in African Highlands
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Uganda, Oct 23 (IPS) - Sixty-five years after a major international summit here on malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains a scourge and its incidence may even be rising in parts of sub-Saharan Africa due to the combined effects of climate change, agricultural practices and population displacement.
Itaborai, a City of White Elephants and Empty Offices
- Inter Press Service
ITABORAÃ, Brazil, Oct 23 (IPS) - Itaboraí still recalls its origins as a sprawling city that sprang up along a highway, not far from Rio de Janeiro. But a few years ago big modern buildings began to sprout all over this city in southeast Brazil, whose offices and shops are almost all empty today.
Opinion: It’s Time to Put Local Communities in Charge of Liberia’s Forests
- Inter Press Service
MONROVIA, Oct 22 (IPS) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently affirmed her commitment to the land rights of Liberia's local communities, who rely on the forests for their livelihoods and have cared for them for generations.
Africa's Senior Citizens Cornered By Poverty
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI and HARARE, Oct 21 (IPS) - Kenya has made tremendous steps towards ensuring that the elderly population does not slide into extreme poverty, hunger and, consequently, premature death.
Opinion: India's Compact with Africa
- Inter Press Service
OPINION: Will African Leaders Fight for our Farmers?
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, Oct 11 (IPS) - Climate change is changing the world we know and love. Our land, homes and food are at risk. With nearly a billion people already living in poverty, it is also the single biggest threat to the fight against hunger.
Analysis: Is the Miracle of Microfinance Illusory?
- Inter Press Service
PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, transformed the lives of millions of poor women through unsecured micro loans or micro credit to self-help groups. Microcredit evolved into microfinance that also includes savings and basic forms of insurance and transfer mechanisms. Within a few years, microfinance became a global phenomenon. Although microfinance continues to grow, the enthusiasm for it shows signs of waning.
Opinion: International Tax Cooperation Crucial for Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 07 (IPS) - It has become clear that the South, including the least developed countries, has little reason to expect any real progress to the almost half century old commitment to transfer 0.7 percent of developed countries' income to developing countries. But to add insult to injury, developing countries have, once again, been denied full participation in inter-governmental discussions to enhance overall as well as national tax capacities.
Q&A: ‘We Need to do Development Differently in the Post-2015 Era’
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Oct 02 (IPS) - The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted at a summit meeting of world leaders at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sep. 25, reflect the five strategic domains the ACP Group is gearing to focus on, as it repositions itself as a more effective organisation in the global arena, says the 79-nation bloc's head Dr Patrick Gomes.
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