Global Issues
News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 21
African Fish Workers Excluded From International Trade Deals: Report
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, July 3 (IPS) - A new report has raised concerns about the exclusion of African fish workers from trade protocols between their governments and developed countries, resulting in impoverished communities relying on fishing.
Post-Earthquake Myanmar Faces ‘Immense’ Suffering, Cannot Be Forgotten
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 3 (IPS) - “Myanmar cannot become a forgotten crisis,” Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), has said. “This country has faced cyclones, war, conflict, violence, climate and now immense suffering.”
Pumped Storage Hydropower is an Option for Latin America
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, July 2 (IPS) - Having hydroelectric power without damming rivers, dismantling the environment or displacing populations is possible in Latin America and the Caribbean, with reversible power plants that take advantage of their mountainous geography, and pave the way for only renewable sources to generate electricity.
Multi-Year Drought Gives Birth to Extremist Violence, Girls Most Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
SEVILLE & BHUBANESWAR, July 2 (IPS) - While droughts creep in stealthily, their impacts are often more devastating and far-reaching than any other disaster. Inter-community conflict, extremist violence, and violence and injustice against vulnerable girls and women happen at the intersection of climate-induced droughts and drought-impoverished communities.
From Parliaments to the G20: A Call to Champion Women’s Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, July 2 (IPS) - About 21 million adolescent girls get pregnant annually in low- and middle-income countries. Beyond the numbers lie lost futures and deepening cycles of poverty that undermine girls’ education, wellbeing, and, ultimately, national development.
FFD4 Must Deliver for the World’s Most Vulnerable Nations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 1 (IPS) - Five years from the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we face a development emergency. The promise to eradicate poverty, combat climate change, and build a sustainable future for all is slipping away. The SDG financing gap has ballooned to over $4 trillion annually—a crisis compounded by declining aid, rising trade barriers, and a fragile global economy.
Science Is Useless if No One Understands It
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, July 1 (IPS) - Despite delivering life-saving medicines, more nutritious crops, and transformative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), science remains widely misunderstood, polarizing, and underappreciated. Much of this, experts say, comes down to one persistent issue: poor communication.
As FfD4 Kicks Off in Spain, Global Cooperation Still Matters
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, July 1 (IPS) - As the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) kicks off in Sevilla, Spain, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Trump Undresses Rival Trade Myths
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 1 (IPS) - President Trump’s tariffs have exposed neoliberal trade ideology and undermined corporate lobbying in the name of free trade. But his rhetoric has also exposed the fallacies of his own economic strategy.
The Young Nigerian Innovator Lighting Up Communities With Recycled Solar Innovation
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, June 30 (IPS) - When Stanley Anigbogu heard his name announced as the 2025 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year in London earlier in March, he could hardly believe it. He had not expected to win, especially among a pool of brilliant nominees from across the globe.
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