Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 21
CARIBBEAN: Cuba Shares Its Experiences in Agroecology
- Inter Press Service
Farmers and experts on agriculture from Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique are touring fields in Cuba this week, along with local colleagues, to exchange experiences to foment ecological fruit growing on Caribbean islands.
CLIMATE CHANGE-PERU: Rural Women Share Their Trials and Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
'This year the freeze killed my crops, our small livestock died, and now I can't even sleep because I'm worried sick thinking about how to put food on my family's table, since I'm a widow,' said Rosaura Huatay, an indigenous farmer in Peru's northern Andes highlands.
CLIMATE CHANGE: A Threat to Food Security in Africa's Basins
- Inter Press Service
While Africa has successfully avoided conflict over shared water courses, it will need greater diplomacy to keep the peace as new research warns that climate change will have an effect on food productivity.
CUBA: Co-operatives Set to Expand
- Inter Press Service
The creation of co-operatives forms part of the current 'updating' of the Cuban economy, even though no official information has been provided about the expansion of this form of business management, which has already been tested, with mixed results, in agriculture.
Q&A: 'Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern'
- Inter Press Service
Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD), at its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation.
Landgrabbing in Ethiopia: Legal Lease or Stolen Soil?
- Inter Press Service
Kneeling in the middle of a sugar cane field in blistering 40 degree heat, a young boy is digging up weeds while an Indian worker stands over him to make sure he does not miss any. Red is eight years old and earns 73 pence for one day’s work - less than the cost of using pesticides.
Brazil Commits to Quality Food for All
- Inter Press Service
Representatives of the Brazilian federal and municipal governments and of indigenous, black and riverbank communities and other groups that make the population of this country so diverse assumed a commitment to fight for 'the human right to an adequate diet.'
G20 Remiss in Tackling Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Last Friday Benoit Miribel, President of Action Against Hunger, delivered a strong indictment of the outcome of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in the south of France: 'The G20 meeting in Cannes has been a missed opportunity.'
BRAZIL: Proper Nutrition - the Next Food Challenge
- Inter Press Service
Fighting malnutrition is not just about putting food on everyone's table every day, according to Brazil's Fourth National Conference on Food and Nutrition Security, meeting in the capital of the northeastern state of Bahia.
MIDEAST: Festive Season Highlights Deprivation
- Inter Press Service
Crowds of women waving coupons worth two kilograms of beef line the stairwell to Secours Islamique France’s Gaza City office several hours before the aid agency begins its meat distribution for Eid. Aid workers struggle to climb the stairs, hauling large bags of fresh meat to assist impoverished families in Gaza this holiday season.
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