News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 66
ECOWAS at 49: Successes in Regional Integration, Despite Emerging Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 6 2024 (IPS) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was founded in 1975 to promote economic integration in the region. Forty-nine years later, the regional bloc boasts significant successes in integration, peace and security and good governance, but also faces some challenges.
UN’s Summit of the Future
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug 5 2024 (IPS) - Preparations are ongoing for the upcoming Summit of the Future, probably the most consequential initiative of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres so far.
How Women Water Volunteers Help Shape India’s Water Future
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Aug 02 (IPS) - “Daily squabbles at the lone water point in Bhubaneswar’s slums, where hundreds of households depended on this single non-potable water source, have now receded into the past,” says Aparna Khuntia, a member of a large cohort of water volunteers who have played an important enabling role in ensuring households in the eastern India city now have their own on-premises potable running tap water available all 24 hours.
Activists Challenge Pharma Company Gilead Over HIV Medication
- Inter Press Service
MUNICH, Aug 02 (IPS) - Campaigners and experts have demanded a breakthrough HIV intervention hailed as “the closest thing to an HIV vaccine” must be made available as soon and as cheaply as possible to all who need it as its manufacturer faces protests over its pricing.
Economic Prospects in Asia & the Pacific – Celebrate Resilience, Prepare for Headwinds
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 01 (IPS) - Economic performance in Asia and the Pacific has proved to be quite resilient to the shocks of the past few years – the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the cost-of-living crisis. In 2023, the region’s economy drove over 60 per cent of the global economic growth.
Intl. AIDS Conference: Trans Man Asks Governments to Pressure Uganda to Repeal Punitive Anti LGBT+ Law
- Inter Press Service
MUNICH, Jul 31 (IPS) - Jay Mulucha, Executive Director of FEM Alliance Uganda, gave an impassioned plea to governments around the world to push lawmakers in his home country to reverse punitive new legislation criminalizing the LGBT+ community.
Sportwashing Allegations at Africa's Top Football Tournament
- Inter Press Service
Jul 30 (IPS) - Following the recent Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in Ivory Coast, a continent-wide campaign has emerged on social media challenging the tournament's main sponsor, TotalEnergies, over its involvement in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Parliamentarians: Active Aging Enhanced By Using Artificial Intelligence
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 29 (IPS) - With projections that by 2060, over 1.2 billion people in Asia will be 65 or older, and by adopting technology, including artificial intelligence technologies, it is possible to plan for active and fulfilled aging, lawmakers attending a regional meeting on Aging Preparedness and Care Economy in Asia heard.
Zimbabwe Needs Awareness, Advanced Tech to Beat Cancer
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 29 (IPS) - Earlier this year, then 46-year-old Lydia Musundiwa, based in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, was diagnosed with colon cancer, which, already at an advanced stage, killed her in less than two months.
Kanak Political Grievances Are Fed by Deep Inequality in New Caledonia
- Inter Press Service
NOUMEA, New Caledonia, Jul 25 (IPS) - New Caledonia, a French overseas territory of about 290,000 people in the southwest Pacific, is facing a challenging recovery from weeks of civil unrest that erupted in mid-May, leaving an aftermath of destruction and political turmoil.
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