Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 16
GERMANY: While Some Waste, Others Feast
- Inter Press Service
Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student, stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage containers.
Progress Towards a Food-Secure Africa
- Inter Press Service
A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa are some of the countries that have made tremendous achievements towards achieving these goals.
Money Is All That's Green in Biodiesel
- Inter Press Service
The only green in biodiesel fuel is the money producers make from it, new research has revealed.
MIDEAST: Flowers Fight Their Way Out
- Inter Press Service
Ayman Siam, 41, is not growing carnations as usual this year. It’s limonium and statice flowers instead because they are hardier. Given the risks of an Israeli blockade, it’s a political decision.
EL SALVADOR: Pesticides Fill Graveyards in Rural Villages
- Inter Press Service
Sitting in the shade under a tree at a careful distance, Francisco Sosa watches his son prepare the land for planting by spraying the weeds with an herbicide from a tank carried on his back.
Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
- Inter Press Service
The world's farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tonnes, up 53 million tonnes from the previous record in 2009.
Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
- Inter Press Service
Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It’s what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.
MIDEAST: The Olive Branch Fights Back
- Inter Press Service
'During hard times, we have survived off olive oil,' says Ahmed Sourani from the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee. 'During the last war many people who couldn’t leave their homes had only bread and olive oil to sustain them for long periods.'
BOLIVIA: Artificial 'Islands' to Protect Cattle from Annual Floods
- Inter Press Service
Small-scale dairy farmers in this remote area of Bolivia's northeastern Amazon region of Beni have a new hope for protecting their livestock from the fierce annual floods that start in December.
BANGLADESH: Farmers Bet on Climate-Proof Crops
- Inter Press Service
With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant varieties of rice, wheat, pulses and other staples.
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