News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 117
To Achieve Human Rights, Start with Food
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Dec 07 (IPS) - This year’s Human Rights Day marks the 74th year since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international document that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all people. The right to food became a legal obligation for countries to promote and protect as part of the economic, social and cultural rights in 1966.
Volunteerism: Path to Achieve UNs Agenda 2030
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec 06 (IPS) - The International Volunteer Day, a worldwide event commemorated every year on the 5th of December, comes at the end of a long line of special commemorations, each of them relevant and paramount to achieve the UN’s Agenda 2030.
Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 06 (IPS) - Natural flows do not respect national boundaries. The atmosphere and oceans cross international borders with little difficulty, as greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other fluids, including pollutants, easily traverse frontiers.
The Decline and Fall of Democracy Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 05 (IPS) - A head of state who presided over an authoritarian regime in Southeast Asia, was once asked about rigged elections in his country.
“I promised I will give you the right to vote” he said, “but I didn’t say anything about counting those votes.”
IMF Led Privatization, Land and Resource Grab in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 05 (IPS) - On September 1, 2022, debt-trapped Sri Lanka reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 48-month Extended Fund Facility of $2.9 billion, which hardly covers the country’s outstanding debt, nor its immediate survival needs.
Global Risks in 2022: The Year of Colliding Consequences
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec 02 (IPS) - As 2022 draws to a close, we are confronted with an unprecedented collision of global risks, interacting and reinforcing each other in dangerous new ways.
Africas Processing Industry Holds Promise for Broader Economic Growth
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Nov 30 (IPS) - As a central pillar of African diets for thousands of years, millet has a prized position as one of the continent’s most important crops.
And with the onset of climate change, millet offers valuable security to the continent’s smallholder farmers due to the crop’s tolerance for dry soils.
Can Asia and the Pacific Get on Track to Net Zero?
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 29 (IPS) - The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate change. The Nationally Determined Contribution targets of Asian and Pacific countries will result in a 16 per centincrease in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from the 2010 levels.
AGRA Gets Make-Up, Not Make-Over
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 (IPS) - Despite its dismal record, the Gates Foundation-sponsored Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) announced a new five-year strategy in September after rebranding itself by dropping ‘Green Revolution’ from its name.
Digital Human Rights Need to be Enshrined in Law
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Nov 28 (IPS) - The upcoming consultation on the Global Digital Compact presents a unique opportunity to ensure that human rights in the digital world are protected in international common standards.
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