Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 389
Women in Zimbabwe’s Parliament Will Change Widow’s Lives
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jun 24 (IPS) - When Maude Taruvinga* votes in Zimbabwe's elections later this year, she will be voting for her local female politician as she has placed her hopes for a better future on the presence of more women in this southern African nation's legislature.
Ugandan Teen Turns to Poultry to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Jun 23 (IPS) - When Eunice Namugerwa, an 18-year-old living in Kampala's Kisenyi slum, decided to start a business to support her family last August, she scrawled three ideas down on a bit of scrap paper: a piggery, a fashion boutique and a chicken farm.
Mining Benefits Fail to 'Trickle Down'
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jun 22 (IPS) - With South-South trade on the rise and growth in emerging economies set to outstrip production in industrialised countries, the international mining sector has been quick to follow global trends.
Trapped Between Political Persecution in Eritrea and Misery of Refugee Camps
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Jun 22 (IPS) - In February 2013, 20-year-old Mohamed*, like hundreds of thousands of other Eritreans, fled the brutal dictatorship in that East African nation in search of a better life in neighbouring Sudan.
India’s Food Security Rots in Storage
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Jun 21 (IPS) - Shooing off a quartet of hens that come pecking, twenty-four-year-old Kamala Batra sits guard over a sack of coarse rice spread out on the courtyard. After small black insects slowly crawl away in the sun's heat, she gathers it to cook for the day's free midday meal - a pan-India government food security scheme for school students.
Biofortification May Hold Keys to "Hidden Hunger"
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 21 (IPS) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which works to end malnutrition among more than two billion people worldwide, is expressing strong support for enriching the micronutrient content of plants.
Time Still Not Right for Congolese Refugees to Return
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Jun 21 (IPS) - Tuyisenge*, a former teacher from the Democratic Republic of Congo province of North Kivu, sat on a tree stump watching his fellow refugees go about their lives along the terraces of the hillside Kigeme Refugee Camp in southern Rwanda.
Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia and Africa - Report
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 21 (IPS) - Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning.
Dams Threaten Mekong Basin Food Supply
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Jun 20 (IPS) - The future of food security in the Mekong region lies at a crossroads, as several development ventures, including the Xayaburi Hydropower Project, threaten to alter fish migration routes, disrupt the flow of sediments and nutrients downstream, and endanger millions whose livelihoods depend on the Mekong River basin's resources.
Q&A: "The Real Target Is Zero Hunger"
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 20 (IPS) - Under the leadership of Brazilian Director General (DG) Jose Graziano da Silva, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has been engaged in a process of deep reform meant to make the organisation leaner and more effective in the fight against hunger.
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