News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 88
Healthcare Crisis Follows Deadly Earthquake in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nov 10 (IPS) - Emergency health services are grappling with the enormous challenge of providing essential care to individuals affected by a deadly earthquake that claimed the lives of at least 153 and around 400 people wounded in western Nepal.
PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 08 (IPS) - Public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure and service provision are both costly and risky. Worse, PPPs typically fail to ensure universal, let alone fair access to public amenities.
Community Efforts Boost Wastewater Treatment in El Salvador - Video
- Inter Press Service
CHIRILAGUA, El Salvador, Nov 07 (IPS) - Neither the central government nor most of El Salvador's 262 municipalities have had the capacity to install enough wastewater treatment plants to prevent it from being discharged directly into the environment.
Amidst Tears and Grief, Afghan Women Call Out To the World
- Inter Press Service
Nov 06 (IPS) - The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons“When the sun rises in the morning, I see the light but I don't feel like I'm having a bright day. I think about how different these days are from our past days”.
Commonwealth Civil Society Offers Ministers Crucial Recommendations for Gender Equality Advancement
- Inter Press Service
SAINT LUCIA, Nov 03 (IPS) - Amid fears that global shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic have eroded progress toward gender equality, the Commonwealth Foundation has created an online platform that takes civil society’s recommendations for the empowerment of women and girls directly to policymakers.On August 22, 2023, Women's Affairs Ministers from the Commonwealth huddled in a room at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, they were meeting in person.
Even Rich Nations Now Worried About Investor-State Dispute Settlements
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 01 (IPS) - Governments the world over are worried about investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) rules. These allow foreign investors to sue them for billions over new laws or policies reducing their profits.
Women Correct Historical Injustices, Build Climate Resilience Through Cash Pooling
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 31 (IPS) - Excluded by inheritance and ignored by big business, women farmers in Kenya are turning to innovative methods to become independent food producers and get the financial backing to ensure their success. Creating resilience is crucial to adapting to climate change and ensuring climate justice. Although women account for more than three-quarters of the agricultural labour force and manage 40 percent of small-scale farms, historically, they neither owned nor controlled the land because land rights were passed down to male relatives. It is a historic gender injustice whereby women could only access land through close male relatives.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Sharing 'Real-Time' Data, Consistent, Simple Messaging Helps
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Oct 31 (IPS) - After months of warding off appeals from his employers to get vaccinated for the COVID-19 disease, Mohammad Yusuf, 24, working as a live-in domestic worker in Karachi’s Clifton area, finally relented and got his first shot.
African, Asian Parliamentarians Debate How People-Centered Policies Aid Development of Women, Youth
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Oct 30 (IPS) - Asian and African parliamentarians have committed to accelerate the implementation of a people-centered development agenda as the African continent continues to face rapid demographic change with several challenges, such as youth unemployment and gender inequities.
Community Solutions Combat Water Shortages in Peru's Highlands
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 26 (IPS) - The lack of water is so severe in Peru's highlands that farming families are forced to sell their livestock because they cannot feed them. "There is no grass or fodder to feed them," says Fermina Quispe, a Quechua farmer from a rural community located at 4,200 meters above sea level.
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