Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 28
Companies Vow to Shun Child Labour in Uzbekistan
- Inter Press Service
With Fashion Week under way in New York, Milan and London, more than 60 apparel companies from the United States and Europe this week publicly pledged to not knowingly buy cotton that has been harvested by children forced to labour in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan.
Q&A: Africa Keen to Ensure Kyoto Protocol Survives
- Inter Press Service
Durban should not be the burial ground for the Kyoto Protocol, says Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, about his expectations from the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change happening in his hometown in South Africa later this year.
East Africa Wants to Trade Beyond the EU
- Inter Press Service
The East African Community (EAC) and European Union head back to negotiations on Monday to resolve the controversy over the delay in signing an economic partnership agreement between the two trading blocs.
JAMAICA: Women Coffee Farmers Seize a Plastic Lifeline
- Inter Press Service
Jamaica's Blue Mountains are coffee country. Here, up among the clouds, farmers produce one of the world's most exclusive brands of boutique coffees.
GUATEMALA: The War Over Land
- Inter Press Service
The violent eviction of 91 rural families in northern Guatemala was the latest incident in the ageold conflict over land in a country where the army is frequently called in to force peasant farmers off their land.
MEXICO: Climate Change Drives Migration
- Inter Press Service
'We planted our seeds, but the earth is no longer productive. We've had too much rain, even more than last year, and the harvest was ruined,' says Ermelinda Santiago of the Me'phaa indigenous people, who like everyone else in the village of Francisco I. Madero has been affected by the impact of extreme weather on agriculture in southern Mexico.
MEXICO: Traditional Maize Can Cope with Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Maize, Mexico's staple food as well as a symbol, has the potential to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects without any need for genetically modified seeds, according to agricultural scientists.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Nepali Women Sow a Secure Future
- Inter Press Service
Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal’s women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks.
SOMALIA: Armed Militia Grab the Famine Business
- Inter Press Service
Armed groups are withholding aid and preventing Somali famine refugees from leaving camps to ensure the continued supply of food by aid agencies that they are presently selling on the open market.
HONDURAS: Dying for Land
- Inter Press Service
The deployment of large numbers of troops in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras is reviving the age-old conflict over land in an area torn between organised crime groups capable of undertaking armed actions, wealthy landowners and peasants demanding further land reform.
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