Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 11
Zimbabwe’s Mopani Worms Disappearing from Rural Diets
- Inter Press Service
Job Mthombeni loves traditional food. One of his favourite culinary delights is Mopani worms, referred to locally as amacimbi, which means caterpillar in Ndebele. At an early age he understood the nutritional value of the worm, which is found in his rural hometown of Plumtree, in southwestern Zimbabwe.
World Water Forums Expose Large Dams as ‘Unsustainable’
- Inter Press Service
Numerous non-governmental organisations used the World Water Forum (WWF) held in Marseille last week as an opportunity to remind the international community about the serious global impacts of large dams all over the world.
Saving Kenya’s Maize Crop
- Inter Press Service
While some maize farmers in Kenya’s Western Province are stilling living off the produce from last season’s harvest, Robert Oduor is counting his losses after the deadly Striga weed infested his one-hectare maize field.
Urban Chicken-Keeping Movement Spreads Its Wings
- Inter Press Service
With increasing concerns about the economy and environmental sustainability on the minds of many U.S. citizens, leaders in the grassroots movement to promote urban chicken-keeping report a renewed interest in their cause.
‘Green Morocco Plan’ Fails to Confront Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
An unprecedented cold spell that struck Morocco in February and continues to linger well into March has raised serious questions about the country's national agricultural development programme, which will fail to achieve its desired results if climate change continues to be mismanaged.
The Dusty Limpopo River
- Inter Press Service
Chapita Ramovha remembers the days when the Limpopo River lapped at the foot of his village in south Zimbabwe. He says that back then residents of Makakavhule village had to build high walls to protect their homes from flooding. 'The Limpopo River was a marvel to watch, a beauty of nature, a source of food and income for us who lived along it,' the subsistence farmer recalls.
Argentina Responds to Climate Challenge with Transgenic Seeds
- Inter Press Service
Researchers in Argentina have isolated a sunflower gene and implanted it into corn, wheat and soybean seeds to make them more resistant to drought and soil salinity, problems increasingly faced by this South American agricultural powerhouse as a result of global warming.
Gender Empowerment Still Lags Far Behind in Global Village
- Inter Press Service
When the United Nations concluded a two-week session highlighting the plight of rural women last week, the meetings singled out both the achievements and shortcomings of the ongoing relentless battle for gender equality in a world still dominated - and overwhelmingly ruled - by men.
Central America Looks to Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
Central America, a narrow tropical isthmus flanked by the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, suffered 259 extreme weather-related events between 1930 and 2009, while the cumulative effects of innumerable smaller-scale events have not even been recorded.
U.N. Human Rights Council Exhorted to Defend Peasants’ Rights
- Inter Press Service
Decades after peasants’ networks have advocated for a new legal instrument to protect the rights of small farmers to land, seeds, traditional agricultural knowledge and freedom to determine the prices of their production, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) may decide to start drafting a declaration on peasants’ rights next week.
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