Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 26
BRAZIL: Homegrown GM Bean Won't Fight Hunger, Critics Say
- Inter Press Service
Critics complain that a genetically modified bean developed in Brazil, resistant to one of the country's most damaging agricultural pests, was approved without enough debate or guarantees that the crop will not affect human health or the environment.
ARGENTINA: Boosting Agribusiness — and Family Farms
- Inter Press Service
A plan to boost agribusiness, but based mainly on family farming and cooperatives, in Argentina is geared to producing and exporting more food — in a more sustainable manner.
Thai Rice Stirs the Global Pot
- Inter Press Service
Thailand is preparing to stir the pot in the international rice market with its fragrant jasmine rice nurtured by a new policy. But while the new policy pays farmers a great deal more, there are fears that the high prices could make Thai rice uncompetitive.
U.S.: Battle Escalates Against Genetically Modified Crops
- Inter Press Service
Home to a fast-growing network of farmers' markets, cooperatives and organic farms, but also the breeding ground for mammoth for-profit corporations that now hold patents to over 50 percent of the world's seeds, the United States is weathering a battle between Big Agro and a ripening movement for food justice and security.
Salvadoran Campesinas Go Organic
- Inter Press Service
The guavas grown by Mariana Rosales are big and bright green, and the best thing about them, she says proudly, is that she does not spend a single cent on fertilisers to produce them — something extremely rare in a country like El Salvador.
MEXICO: Food from Trees to Fight Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
The exceptionally nutritious moringa tree, native to the foothills of the Himalayas and cultivated in several Latin American countries, could help fight malnutrition in this region.
Re-Greening Africa in the Footsteps of Wangari Maathai
- Inter Press Service
Africa needs to remain focused and continue following the late Professor Wangari Maathai’s initiatives for environmental sustainability in order to address climate change across the continent, environmentalists say.
PERU: Councilwomen Fight Climate Change in Land of Melting Glaciers
- Inter Press Service
Some symbolic acts are powerful reflections of a broader struggle. In March some 300 women planted trees in the Santa River basin in northwest Peru to demonstrate their determination to preserve the environment and help adapt to climate change.
INDIA: Facing Climate Change With Flower Power
- Inter Press Service
Gazalla Amin’s office on the outskirts of this city, capital of Jammu & Kashmir state, is redolent with the fragrance of lavender wafting up from heaps of the dried flowers in a corner bowl.
BURKINA FASO: Bonuses Help Reforestation Take Root
- Inter Press Service
This year Fatimata Koama and her associates received more than half a million CFA francs as a reward for planting - and looking after - 1,200 trees in their small corner of Burkina Faso.
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