Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 29
SOMALIA: Food Aid Stolen From Famine Victims
- Inter Press Service
Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen, an investigation has revealed.
SRI LANKA: Less Guns Mean More Food
- Inter Press Service
As paddy cultivation revives in Sri Lanka’s former war zones, prospects for the island’s food security have improved dramatically.
IBSA: ‘Cash Grants Must Back Food Access’
- Inter Press Service
Studies by the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Academic Forum on food security issues in the three countries suggest that providing food access works best when backed by cash transfers.
MAURITANIA: Fresh Attempt at Irrigated Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
In a bid to reduce food insecurity, the Mauritanian government is turning to several new approaches to agriculture, including expanded irrigation schemes, popularising new crops and harnessing the energy of recent graduates.
Global Warming Behind Somali Drought
- Inter Press Service
The severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which has caused the death of at least 30,000 children and is affecting some 12 million people, especially in Somalia, is a direct consequence of weather phenomena associated with climate change and global warming, environmental scientists say.
KENYA: Poor Struggle as Inflation Soars
- Inter Press Service
As Kenya's inflation rate reached 15.53 percent, compared to 3.18 percent in October 2010, the country's poor have been struggling to afford the most basic of essentials. In some areas families can no longer rely on regular meals and have reduced them to one a day, others mostly eat potatoes to get by, and in one Rift Valley slum, poor families now buy toothpaste by the drop.
OP-ED: Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables and Toxins Driving People from Homes
- Inter Press Service
People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expanding deserts, falling water tables, and toxic waste and radiation are also forcing people from their homes.
ECONOMY-ZIMBABWE: Good Policies Make for Good Business
- Inter Press Service
With effective political and economic policies, Africa can be a haven for multinational companies (MNCs) even in the continent's least developed countries.
KENYA: Lime Improves Maize Harvest
- Inter Press Service
As the world’s worst food security crisis continues across the Horn of Africa, including in Kenya, some smallholder farmers in the western part of the country are still feeding their families with last year’s abundant harvest.
Brazil Revs Up South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
As one of the world's emerging economic powerhouses, Brazil is vigourously pursuing one of the key economic objectives on the U.N.'s development agenda: South-South Cooperation.
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