News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 71
Lawmakers Deliberate on ICPD30, Water Security at Tajikistan Conference
- Inter Press Service
Jun 10 (IPS) - It's been 30 years since the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD30) was adopted in Cairo, transforming policy and thinking on population and development issues.
Are We Equipping Women or Merely Filling the Gender Gap?
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, Jun 07 (IPS) - In the expansive field of groundwater resource management, a pressing question often emerges: are we truly equipping women with the necessary tools and opportunities to thrive, or are we simply attempting to fill in the gender gap without tackling the root causes?
Youth Speak Out Against Big Tobacco
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Jun 07 (IPS) - Each year, millions of children worldwide fall prey to the targeted tactics of the tobacco industry in its attempts to lure new customers. This year’s World No Tobacco Day (May 31), aptly themed “Protecting children from tobacco industry interference”, saw global youth unite to confront the pervasive influence of Big Tobacco.
Quiet Revolution Underway as IFADs Innovative Solutions Rise to Global Rural Challenges
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI & ROME, Jun 06 (IPS) - Technology and innovation are at the center of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s strategy to fulfill its global mission to eradicate poverty and hunger in the developing world, IFAD’s President Alvaro Lario told IPS in an exclusive interview.
Bringing Drought and Floods, El Niño Hits the Most Fragile in Southern Africa
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 04 (IPS) - Kaponde Likando does not know how his family will survive until the next farming season. “We are not going to have anything (to harvest),” said the 60-year-old from Chingobe village in southern Zambia after his maize, sorghum, groundnut and sweet potato crops failed. “This has been the very opposite of what we expected.”
Biodiversity Meetings in Nairobi End, All Eyes Are Now on COP16
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 03 (IPS) - Regions struggling to revise and update their National Biodiversity Plans aligning them with the Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at COP15, will now be given the technical and scientific support to develop and submit their plans on time.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Calls for Concrete Finance Commitments for Small Island Developing States
- Inter Press Service
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, Jun 03 (IPS) - Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland is calling for concrete commitments to climate finance that will acknowledge the multi-dimensional vulnerability faced by the world’s small island developing states (SIDS).
The Dilemma for Small Island Developing States: Recovery or Development?
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jun 03 (IPS) - “We are facing unenviable decisions, between the recovery of today or the development of tomorrow”. These were the words of Fiam? Naomi Mata?afa, of Samoa at the opening of the 4th International Conference on Small Islands Developing States (SIDS4).
Uniting for Climate Action: UN, World Bank and UNDRR Leaders Push for Climate Finance, Justice and Nature-Based Solutions for SIDS
- Inter Press Service
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA, May 29 (IPS) - As leaders of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) meet for the 4th International Conference on SIDS in Antigua this week, top United Nations and World Bank officials are calling for urgent action to help SIDS tackle their unique challenges and plan for the next decade.
To Tackle Climate Crisis, the World Bank Must Stop Financing Industrial Livestock
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, May 29 (IPS) - Last week, the World Bank Group released a new report that highlights the urgent need to drastically reduce GHG emissions to address the climate crisis and calls on countries to act. However, while the World Bank’s acknowledgment of the damaging climate impacts of industrial agriculture is a crucial step forward, it’s simply not enough.
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