News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 97
Digging Africa Deeper into Hunger; Annual Green Revolution Forum ignores widespread failure of its push for industrialized agriculture
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, MA., Aug 29 (IPS) - As the adage goes, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, stop digging. As African leaders and their philanthropic and bilateral sponsors prepare for another glitzy African Green Revolution Forum, convening September 5-8 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, they are instead handing out new shovels to dig the continent deeper into a hunger crisis caused in part by their failing obsession with corporate-led industrialized agriculture.
UN Must Reclaim Multilateral Governance from Pretenders
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 24 (IPS) - International governance arrangements are in trouble. Condemned as ‘dysfunctional’ by some, multilateral agreements have been discarded or ignored by the powerful except when useful to protect their interests or provide legitimacy.
Vaccine Equality Is as Vital for Livestock as for People
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Spain, Aug 22 (IPS) -El Castellar - For 33-year-old mother-of-seven and poultry farmer Helena Kindole in Chanya village in Tanzania, one of the main barriers to growing her chicken business is a lack of access to health services. But not for herself or her family – for her animals.
Moving From Trauma to Healing: Practicing Self-Care in Refugee Camps
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 21 (IPS) - A Rohingya woman tells a forum of peer counselors the story of her divorce. A survivor of domestic abuse, she has started a new life alone with her daughter. She has weathered a storm of neighbors telling her she was the problem. Now, she provides the support she didn’t have to other women like her.
Floods, Now Torrential Monsoon Rains Leave Pakistani Women in Crisis
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, Aug 18 (IPS) - Torrential monsoon rains have left the people, especially women, in crisis as they are still grappling to recover from the last year’s floods in Pakistan.
World Leaders Need to Prioritize the More Than 1 Billion People Living in Informal Settlements
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug 16 (IPS) - When representatives from dozens of countries gathered recently at the UN High Level Political Forum in New York to share progress on their efforts to achieve the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this disturbing reality was clear: the world is not even close to meeting the goals by 2030 as intended.
Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 16 (IPS) - Kenya’s fight for food security may have just gone ‘Old School’ as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way off consumers’ plates.
World Bank Climate Finance Plan Little Help, Unfair
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 16 (IPS) - The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize much more capital to address the climate crisis. But the new plan is likely to be a distraction, not the solution it purports to be. Rich nations have contributed most to the current climate crisis. They are primarily responsible for the historical emissions and greenhouse gas (GHG) accumulation of the last two centuries.
Himalayan Monsoon Disaster: Climate Change Colludes with Bad Development
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, Aug 15 (IPS) - As torrential rains, cloudbursts, floods, and landslides continue to wreak colossal damage and claim lives in Himachal Pradesh, India’s Himalayan foothill provinces. The question everyone is asking is: why is this happening?
#AfghanGirlsVoices Campaign to Elevate Voices of Young Afghan Girls on Global Stage
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 14 (IPS) - Two years ago, the then 19-year-old Somaya Faruqi and the Afghan Robotic Team travelled from Herat City to Kabul, the heart of Afghanistan—the Taliban had taken over Herat city, cutting off electricity and internet. The all-girls team’s great passion for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) had driven them to Kabul to rehearse for a competition.
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