Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 300
Fighting Hunger from the Pitch
- Inter Press Service
Good Harvest Fails to Dent Rising Hunger in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jan 29 (IPS) - With agriculture as one of the drivers of economic growth, Zimbabwe needs to invest in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers who keep the country fed, experts say.
U.S.-India Partnership a Step Forward for Low-Carbon Growth
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (IPS) - India garnered international attention this week for its climate action.
OPINION: The Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, United States, Jan 27 (IPS) - At the same time as the United States, Canada and the European Union announced a set of new sanctions against Russia in mid-December last year, Ukraine received 350 million dollars in U.S. military aid, coming on top of a one billion dollar aid package approved by the U.S. Congress in March 2014.
Zimbabwe Battles with Energy Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Africa’s Rural Women Must Count in Water Management
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 26 (IPS) - More women's voices are being heard at international platforms to address the post-2015 water agenda, as witnessed at the recently concluded international U.N International Water Conference held from Jan. 15 to 17 in Zaragoza, Spain.
Renewables Can Benefit Water, Energy and Food Nexus
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Jan 26 (IPS) - With global energy needs projected to increase by 35 percent by 2035, a new report says meeting this demand could increase water withdrawals in the energy sector unless more cost effective renewable energy sources are deployed in power, water and food production.
Not Without Our Daughters: Lambada Women Fight Infanticide and Child Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
CHANDAMPET, India, Jan 26 (IPS) - At 11 years of age, Banawat Gangotri already has four years of work experience as a farm labourer. The child, a member of the nomadic Lambada community from the village of Bugga Thanda in India's southern Telangana state, plucked cotton and chillies from nine a.m. until 5 p.m. for about a dollar daily.
Aboriginal Businesses Stimulate Positive Change in Australia
- Inter Press Service
MOSSMAN, Queensland, Australia, Jan 26 (IPS) - Roy Roger Gibson, an indigenous Kuku Yalanji elder, would watch thousands of tourists and vehicles trampling his pristine land while working on the sugarcane fields in Far North Queensland. His people were suffering and their culture was being eroded. The native wildlife was disappearing. He dreamt of turning this around.
Zimbabwe Faces Troubling Spike in Cases of Multi-Drug Resistant TB
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jan 25 (IPS) - About eight years ago, 44-year-old Tilda Chihota was struck with tuberculosis which kept her bed-ridden for over six months at her rural home in Zimbabwe's Mwenezi district, 144 kilometres southwest of Masvingo, the country's oldest town.
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