Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 31
KENYA: Relief Food Sourced from Local Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Mourid Abdi Dolal and Wilson Rotich are both small-scale farmers who grow staple crops. But while one sells his produce at the local village market, the other farms to feed the growing number of refugees in Kenya.
BRAZIL: Soy Boom Drives Westward Expansion of Railroads
- Inter Press Service
Despite challenges like high interest rates and high household electricity tariffs, the Brazilian economy has been growing at the highest rates seen in decades. Another problem that, although it has not stood in the way of growth, must be overcome is the costly use of roads for transporting farm products — an issue that is being addressed by the expansion of railway networks.
DR CONGO: Fresh Start for DR Congo's Coffee Producers
- Inter Press Service
Long years of civil war and instability set off a crippling decline in coffee production in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the country's output in 2010 was less than a tenth the harvest twenty years earlier. Now the DRC government has a strategy to bolster recovery of the sector.
COLOMBIA: Paramilitaries Dig in to Fight Return of Stolen Land
- Inter Press Service
While President Juan Manuel Santos described his government's land restitution policy as 'a veritable revolution' during a speech in northwest Colombia, some 300 far-right paramilitaries were taking up positions less than 100 km from there to fight the effort to return land to small farmers displaced by the violence, human rights activists say.
ENVIRONMENT: Indonesians Await Forest Tenure Reform
- Inter Press Service
Barbecue fires along the winding trail through the Sesaot forest reserve act as guides for delegates walking to an international forestry conference at a nearby beach resort.
NORTH KOREA: Food At Last for the Hidden Hungry
- Inter Press Service
'Even if 100,000 people die of starvation in North Korea, foreigners working there will not see it,' says a humanitarian worker who spent three years in the impoverished, communist country.
SOMALIA: U.S. Greenlights Aid to Shabaab-Controlled Areas
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration promised Tuesday that the U.S. would not prosecute relief agencies for delivering aid to parts of Somalia controlled by the Islamist insurgent group al- Shabaab, despite concerns that unrestricted aid in the failed state would be diverted to the wrong hands.
MALAWI: Water Drives Integrated Agriculture on Small Farm
- Inter Press Service
When the original owners of a 3.5 hectare piece of land put it up for sale because it was too waterlogged to farm on, Diana Sitima and her husband, Wilson, jumped to buy it.
Famine Relief in Somalia Stymied by Access
- Inter Press Service
While an estimated 12.4 million people linger on the brink of starvation in the Great Horn of Africa, U.S. officials and world relief agencies said Monday that even in a 'best case scenario' the crisis will worsen as the areas in most desperate need remain cut off from access to relief.
BRAZIL: Family Farms Fight for Survival in Sea of Soy
- Inter Press Service
A bullet to his shoulder forced him to spend seven days in the hospital. In another attempt on his life, he was shot at three times, but miraculously escaped unscathed. 'I will never sit next to a window again,' says Brazilian rural activist Walter Moura.
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