News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 116
Thoughts for 2023: Promoting Innovation & New Technologies
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dec 20 (IPS) - Promoting innovation and technology to promote inclusive development means using new technologies to enhance equal access to services, eliminate discrimination, increase transparency, and create a stable and just future for all – especially the most vulnerable and marginalized.
Biodiversity Agreement Historic But Difficult to Implement
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Dec 19 (IPS) - The pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), which takes its name from its shape, is found throughout the Caribbean Sea, but its population has declined by more than 80 percent since 1990. As a result, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed it as "critically endangered" due to the effects of the human-induced climate crisis.
New Political Agreement Finally Tackles Venezuela's Social Crisis
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Dec 15 (IPS) - The social crisis and humanitarian emergency in Venezuela became international headline news again once the government and the opposition, bitter adversaries for two decades, agreed to direct three billion dollars in state funds held abroad to social programs.
COP15: Unsustainable Infrastructure Threatens Biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Dec 15 (IPS) - Created in 2016, the Mexican Caribbean Biosphere Reserve (MCBR) hosts 1900 species of animals and plants and contains half of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second largest in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
The Poor, Squeezed by 10 Trillion Dollars in External Debts
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 14 (IPS) - The external debt of the world’s low and middle-income countries at the end of 2021 totalled 9 trillion US dollars, more than double the amount a decade ago. Such debt is expected to increase by an additional 1.1 trillion US dollars in 2023.
Solar Energy Benefits Children and Indigenous People in Northern Brazil
- Inter Press Service
BOA VISTA, Brazil, Dec 13 (IPS) - Solar energy is booming in Roraima, a state in the far north of Brazil, to the benefit of indigenous people and children in its capital, Boa Vista, and helping to provide a stable energy supply to the entire populace, who suffer frequent electricity shortages and blackouts.
Needed Global Financial Reforms Foregone yet Again
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 13 (IPS) - Calls for more government regulation and intervention are common during crises. But once the crises subside, pressures to reform quickly evaporate and the government is told to withdraw. New financial fads and opportunities are then touted, instead of long needed reforms.
The Digital Divide: Africa the Least Connected with 60 percent of the Population Offline
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 12 (IPS) - The digital divide – between the world’s rich and poor nations —remains staggeringly wide.
For over 2.7 billion people, many of them living in developing and least developed countries (LDCs), meaningful connectivity remains elusive, according to a UN report released during the 17th Internet Governance Forum in Addis Ababa, last month.
COP15: Super Reefs Offer Hope for Ocean Recovery Ahead of Biodiversity Summit
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 09 (IPS) - Delegates from more than 190 countries are donning thick coats and winter boots to attend the long-delayed UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada—the land of caribou, beluga whales and wolverines.
Energy Efficiency Is Law in Chile but Concrete Progress Is Slow in Coming
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Dec 08 (IPS) - The Energy Efficiency Law began to gradually be implemented in Chile after the approval of its regulations, but more efforts and institutions are still lacking before it can produce results.
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