News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 108
Why Gender Transformative Leadership is Key to Ending TB — for Good
- Inter Press Service
LUSAKA / PUNE, Mar 22 (IPS) - Despite being both curable and preventable, the TB pandemic is a global health crisis and a leading cause of death worldwide. COVID-19 brought into sharp focus how women bear the brunt of pandemics. In 2021, over three million women and girls fell ill with TB, resulting in 450,000 needless deaths.
Kenyan Entrepreneur Using Organic Microbes to Unlock Hidden Nutrients in Dairy Feeds
- Inter Press Service
NAKURU, Kenya, Mar 22 (IPS) - Using naturally occurring microbes, a Kenyan entrepreneur has developed a molasses-based supplement that pre-ferments animal feeds to unlock all the necessary nutrients that would otherwise find a way out of the animal through cow dung, and dairy farmers have fallen in love with the product.
BRAC International Signs MoU with Rwanda to Empower People in Extreme Poverty
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Mar 21 (IPS) - Against a brutally painful historical backdrop, a story of hope and resilience unfolds in Rwanda.
Climate Financing: World Bank Must Respond
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 21 (IPS) - It’s one of the great injustices of this era that countries contributing negligible amounts to global carbon emissions are now feeling the most harrowing impacts of climate change.
Championing Sustainability Despite Adversities in Asia & the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 20 (IPS) - As we reach the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it is an opportune moment to reflect on the Asia-Pacific region’s progress and accelerate efforts to achieve our goals.
Scaling up Climate-Smart Trade Policies in the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 17 (IPS) - The impacts of the climate crisis are acutely felt in the Pacific region. In recent years, the region has been hit by devastating climate events, which cause widespread destruction and significant loss of lives and livelihoods across countries.
'Stone-Age' Donkey-Drawn Carts Ply Zimbabwes Abandoned Remote Routes
- Inter Press Service
MWENEZI, Zimbabwe, Mar 15 (IPS) - From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway in Zimbabwe at a spot popularly known as Turn-P, the road passing through Neshuro Township has been degraded, disused, and derelict for over two decades, with buses avoiding the route. Now donkey-drawn carts that operate alongside jalopy vehicles have become the new alternative for remote travellers around Mwenezi villages.
Terrorism & its Impacts on Water Access in the Sahel
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 14 (IPS) - Burkina Faso’s interim President Captain Ibrahim Traoré spoke late last year of the conflicts that are now blighting his country and much of his region. He described the situation in Burkina Faso as predictable given the endemic weaknesses in governance that he believes have led to the economic abandonment of many young people, particularly outside of urban areas.
Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 13 (IPS) - Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a hard-to-reach population scattered across three remote, far-flung villages.
Pandemic Accord Text Falls Short of Expectations
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 13 (IPS) - As countries recently gathered in Geneva for the fourth round of negotiations on the WHO proposed pandemic treaty or accord, close examination of the current text by civil society experts has revealed significant gaps.
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