Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 17
KENYA: Walking Metres Rather Than Kilometres to Fetch Water
- Inter Press Service
The acute lack of water in Kenya means families have to trek long distances every day to fetch water. In both rural and urban areas, people often walk as far as 30 kilometres or more to collect water from rivers, streams or wells. But thanks to self-help projects backed by NGOs, some communities are coming up with solutions.
KAZAKHSTAN: Give Them Bread, But Not So Much
- Inter Press Service
Kazakhstan, intent on diversifying its economy away from oil and mining, has extended its cereal acreage by a third in the past ten years, doubled the value of its grain harvest. It has eradicated rural poverty in the north, the country's breadbasket.
NIGERIA: Not Everyone Pleased with New Vitamin A-Fortified Cassava
- Inter Press Service
Using hybridisation and selective breeding, researchers in Nigeria have developed three new yellow varieties of cassava, a staple crop in much of Africa, which they say will help fight malnutrition caused by vitamin A deficiency in the region.
AFGHANISTAN: Killing Heroin With Saffron
- Inter Press Service
Weaning Afghanistan’s poppy farmers away from growing the raw material for the bulk of the world’s illicit heroin has never been easy, but Kashmir’s saffron cultivators may have the answer.
DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Tribal People on the Warpath
- Inter Press Service
This small town, barely 150 km away from the bustling eastern metropolis of Kolkata, hit news headlines in December 2008 when adivasis (indigenous people) led by Maoist rebels briefly captured it.
EL SALVADOR: Women Demand to Be Included in Climate Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Some 100 rural women in El Salvador demanded that the government halt mining and hydroelectric projects that are harming their communities and establish specific programmes with a gender perspective for combating climate change.
Moving Towards a Food-Secure Ghana
- Inter Press Service
In Dundo village in Nyankpala district, Northern Ghana, 10 women are busy weeding a rice field on a piece of land donated to them by the village chief.
AGRICULTURE-BOLIVIA: Adapting to the Floods
- Inter Press Service
Margarita Amabeja holds out her hands full of golden rice grains and rough brown manioc roots - the first results of a strategy to adjust the agricultural cycles to the seasonal floods and droughts in the vast plains of Beni, in northeastern Bolivia.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Waiting for the 'Heavens to Weep'
- Inter Press Service
Duduzile Sibanda takes a break from preparing her long stretch of land for her maize crop in rural Mberengwa, in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province. She wipes her brow under the scorching sun and looks upwards. The sparse clouds are a cause of concern as she studies the sky and wonders aloud when the 'heavens will weep.'
Chinese Village Besieged After Protests
- Inter Press Service
A standoff between villagers and police is continuing in southern China, where police have sealed off the village of Wukan in an attempt to quell an uprising, witnesses say.
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