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Opinion: What Will It Take to Bring a Second Green Revolution to India?
- Inter Press Service
LUDHIANA, India, Jul 15 (IPS) - Long-term agricultural growth in India is slowing down. The lands that saw remarkable increases in productivity in the 1970s and 80s, thanks to the technology rolled out as part of the first "Green Revolution", are not yielding the same results today.
In Search of Jobs, Cameroonian Women May End Up as Slaves in Middle East
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Jul 15 (IPS) - Her lips are quavering her hands trembling. Susan (not her real name) struggles to suppress stubborn tears, but the outburst comes, spontaneously, and the tears stream down her cheeks as she sobs profusely.
New Census Paints Grim Picture of Inequality in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jul 14 (IPS) - Despite being Asia's third-largest economy, positioning itself as a major geopolitical player under a new nationalist government, India's first ever Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) paints a grim picture of poverty and deprivation despite billions of dollars being funneled into state-sponsored welfare schemes.
Sixty-Five More Years Until Electricity for All in Africa - Report
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Jul 14 (IPS) - Sub-Saharan Africa is still far behind in its ability to generate electricity, hampering growth and frustrating its ambitions to catch up with the rest of the world.
Nuclear Deal Takes U.S.-Iran Ties Out of Deep Freeze – Partly, at Least
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 14 (IPS) - A final deal was reached on Iran's controversial nuclear programme in the early morning hours of July 14 in Vienna, over a decade after talks between Iran and world powers began.
Opinion: U.N. Can Help Reform the International Financial System
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 14 (IPS) - The growth in global interdependence poses greater challenges to policy makers on a wide range of issues and for countries at all levels of development.
Female Commandos Ready to Take on the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 13 (IPS) - For years, Robina Shah has dreamed of joining the police force.
New Malaria Strategy Would Double Current Funding
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA, Jul 13 (IPS) - Although malaria is both preventable and curable, it still killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the majority of them African children.
Opinion: Why Women Peacemakers Marched in Korea
- Inter Press Service
BELFAST, Jul 13 (IPS) - The year 2015 marked the 62nd anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War. The temporary ceasefire has never been replaced with a peace treaty and the demilitarised zone (DMZ) continues to divide the country.
IMF Steps Up Lending to Achieve Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (IPS) - As the Third International Conference on Financing for Development opens in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Monday, all eyes are on the United Nation's post-2015 development agenda, billed as the most ambitious and far-reaching poverty eradication plan in the organisation's history.
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