Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 15
UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
- Inter Press Service
If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.
Once a Food Chain, Now a Corporate Supply Chain — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
While Indian retailers are losing sleep over the possible entrance of multinationals like Walmart into the dense South Asian consumer market, very little thought has been given to the Indian small farmer, who stands to lose even more at the hands of the world's biggest commercial food retailer.
U.S.: Building Communities Around Sustainable Food
- Inter Press Service
With more and more communities in the U.S. South turning to cooperatives as a way to produce and consume food in a sustainable manner, several cooperatives are hoping to expand on what they view as more than just a 'shopping experience' but a way of life.
UGANDA: Rural Women’s Banks Ease Tough Times
- Inter Press Service
For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. Many do not have the required collateral of land title deeds and many cannot afford the interest rates charged by commercial banks.
ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
- Inter Press Service
The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.
SRI LANKA: Poorest Still Go Hungry
- Inter Press Service
Experts agree that Sri Lanka's free pre and postnatal clinics across the island nation have helped bring infant mortality down to 15 per 1,000 live births and the under-five mortality rate to 21 per 1,000 live births.
AFRICA: Miracle Tree is Like a Supermarket
- Inter Press Service
When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.
PUERTO RICO: Cleaner Energy Sources Prove Divisive
- Inter Press Service
As Puerto Rico seeks to lower soaring utility rates while simultaneously shifting toward cleaner energy sources, it faces grassroots opposition to two major projects even though at least one is 100-percent renewable.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Informal Economy Ensures Equitable Development
- Inter Press Service
Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living.
INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
- Inter Press Service
Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea.
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