Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 27
CENTRAL AMERICA: Taxing Land to Improve Distribution
- Inter Press Service
Taxing large landholdings in Central America could help curb the heavy concentration of land ownership that characterises the region, and contribute to rural development, experts say.
Give Women the Seeds and They Can Feed the World
- Inter Press Service
If women farmers were given more tools and resources, the number of hungry in the people in the world could be slashed by 100 to 150 million.
HEALTH: China Scrambles Against Mutant Bird Flu
- Inter Press Service
Veterinary experts in China and Vietnam are scrambling to produce a vaccine capable of beating a new strain of the deadly avian influenza (AI) virus, reports an official of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
Drylands Not a Lost Cause, U.N. Summit Declares
- Inter Press Service
'If this was a meeting about climate change, I am pretty sure that the room would have been more crowded,' Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), commented at a press conference Tuesday.
CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: Farmers 'Have Good Reason to Worry'
- Inter Press Service
Bananas are harvested where apples used to grow; cassava, a traditional crop, is disappearing from the Northeast; and the southeast is losing the fragrance of good coffee. This is the science fiction of a new distribution of crops in Brazil, South America's agricultural powerhouse.
BRAZIL: Every Raindrop Counts
- Inter Press Service
Brazil is considered a country rich in water resources, with its enormous underground aquifers and mighty rivers. But recognition of the vital importance of rainwater begins where it is most scarce: in the semiarid interior of the northeast.
BRAZIL: Every Raindrop Counts
- Inter Press Service
Brazil is considered a country rich in water resources, with its enormous underground aquifers and mighty rivers. But recognition of the vital importance of rainwater begins where it is most scarce: in the semiarid interior of the northeast.
PAKISTAN: Flood Relief by Caste, Creed
- Inter Press Service
With just the clothes on their backs, Moora Sanafdhano, 68, and his family of nine waded through waist-deep flood waters swirling through their village of Allah Ditto Leghari, saving themselves in the nick of time.
NORTH KOREA: Women Wear Pants, Revive Markets
- Inter Press Service
North Korea’s communist government frowns upon women wearing pants, seeing it as a mark of ‘rotten bourgeois lifestyles.’ Yet, wives, literally wearing pants, are selling goods in the local markets to supplement their husbands’ meagre pay packets.
U.S. Residents Poorer, Earning Less, and Less Insured in 2010
- Inter Press Service
According to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2.6 million more people slipped into poverty in 2010, placing the number of U.S. residents living below the poverty line at 15.1 percent.
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