Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 23
Hard Targets Needed to Halt Land Degradation Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Every six seconds, a child dies of hunger-related causes. That disturbing reality seems as remote as the moon here in the ultra-modern Changwon Convention Centre, where delegates struggled to create effective ways to stem the ongoing decline of food-producing lands.
VENEZUELA: Government Distributes Land to Yukpa Indians
- Inter Press Service
The Venezuelan government's decision to expropriate 25 ranches to distribute 15,800 hectares of land to communities of Yukpa Indians in the northwest of the country partially makes up a long-standing debt to the native group.
Civil Society Groups Call for Action to Curb Land Grabbing
- Inter Press Service
Civil society organisations are calling on governments in developing countries to stop leasing and selling out land to transnational corporations because it leads to land degradation and food insecurity.
SOUTH SUDAN: Protecting Cattle Saves People
- Inter Press Service
With his bright orange hair, Angelo Waranyang cuts a striking figure as he strides amongst his cattle. His hair colour — dyed with a mixture of cow urine and ash from burnt dung — is symbolic of the close connection that he and the majority of South Sudanese have with their revered animals.
AFRICA: Gov'ts Fail to Invest in Hungriest, Poorest Regions
- Inter Press Service
For millennia, people have coped with drought in the Horn of Africa, comprised mainly of drylands. Yet today, more than 13 million people there are starving because of political instability, poor government policies and failure to invest in the world's poorest people, say experts here in Changwon.
BRAZIL: Costly Water for the Poor Northeast
- Inter Press Service
The visual impact is harsh: flattened hills, valleys full of mud, and kilometres and kilometres of bulldozed land - the modification of nature in Brazil's semiarid Northeast region is disturbing due to the enormous dimensions involved.
Q&A: 'Soil is Key to Global Warming, Food Security'
- Inter Press Service
Luc Gnacadja, in his second three-year term as executive secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is widely seen as delivering on his commitment to manage the world's drylands.
MEXICO: Transgenic Cotton Harbours Hidden Dangers
- Inter Press Service
Wild cotton in Mexico has been contaminated with genetically modified material, posing a risk to biodiversity, experts say.
AFRICA: 'The Man Who Stopped the Desert'
- Inter Press Service
Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Burkina Faso, is known as the 'man who stopped the desert.' But when he first tried to save his arid land from desertification by planting the trees that have since grown into a 15-hectare forest, people in his village thought he was mad.
SOUTH KOREA: Gender Deserted at Drylands Meet
- Inter Press Service
Delegates to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s (UNCCD) meeting underway in this South Korean city are convinced that women, though affected most by desertification, hold the key to addressing hunger through land regeneration.
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