Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 19
CLIMATE CHANGE: Biofuels Are Not the Solution
- Inter Press Service
Science tells us that we are heading for a climate crisis, yet it is within our means to change course.
Q&A: Time for a New Agricultural Revolution
- Inter Press Service
Negotiators at the 17th Conference of Parties owe it to the world’s more than seven billion people to deliver a deal with a work plan for agriculture, a sector that is expected to be the worst affected by climate change.
Climate Change Killing Womens' Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
Talata Nsor, a 54-year-old woman from Bolgatanga community in Northern Ghana, has been weaving the cultural Bolga baskets, which are named after her community, her entire life.
A Recipe for Carbon Farming
- Inter Press Service
Civil society has warned of the danger of turning Africa's food-producing lands into 'carbon farms' so that rich countries can avoid making cuts in their carbon emissions.
No Agriculture, No Deal
- Inter Press Service
Zambian dairy farmer, Effatah Jele, does not believe in farming luck but in pragmatism because of climate change.
OP-ED: Can Finance Provide the Crown Jewels of a Durban Climate Accord?
- Inter Press Service
As climate talks get underway in Durban, South Africa this week, progress on a Green Climate Fund is one of the hottest, most contentious tickets in town. It is also one of the great prizes to be won.
EUROPE: Co-ops Off to a Promising Start
- Inter Press Service
A small wave of consumer co-operatives is rising in Central and Eastern Europe, attempting to provide food that is locally produced and healthy, and to build conviviality.
AFRICA: Watermelon Farming in a Drought
- Inter Press Service
On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung’u’s homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged drought in the area.
Water: A Victim of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The Southern Africa Development Community wants water to be tabled as a standalone item on climate change negotiations — describing it as too important to leave on the periphery.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Kashmiri Farmers Left High and Dry
- Inter Press Service
Sammad Sheikh of Tangchekh village in north Kashmir cannot understand why the rice fields that his family cultivated for generations are drying up.
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