Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 34
INDONESIA: Expanding Land Rights to Boost Growth, Cut Emissions
- Inter Press Service
Indonesia has assumed a target to cut greenhouse gas emission rates by half and achieve an economic growth rate of seven percent by changing the way it manages its vast forest land, and giving greater control over land to local communities.
ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Native Seeds in Danger of Being Monopolised
- Inter Press Service
Fear is growing among environmental and indigenous organisations in Chile over the possible appropriation of native seeds by foreign companies, opening the doors to transgenic crops and their negative impact on biodiversity.
Research Grant Aims to Meet Critical Maize Shortfalls
- Inter Press Service
As the world's largest international agricultural research coalition celebrated its 40th anniversary here this week, it also announced the launch of a programme to help provide enough maize to meet the annual food demands of over 600 million consumers by 2030.
Rising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Heat waves clearly can destroy crop harvests. The world saw high heat decimate Russian wheat in 2010. Crop ecologists have found that each one-degree Celsius rise in temperature above the optimum can reduce grain harvests by 10 percent. But the indirect effects of higher temperatures on our food supply are no less serious.
Selling Nature to Save Nature, and Ourselves
- Inter Press Service
Avoiding the coming catastrophic nexus of climate change, food, water and energy shortages, along with worsening poverty, requires a global technological overhaul involving investments of 1.9 trillion dollars each year for the next 40 years, said experts from the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in Geneva Tuesday.
KENYA: Budget Cushions Agricultural Sector Amidst Staggering Inflation
- Inter Press Service
As the country’s inflation rate hits a staggering 14.5 percent — compared to 4.5 percent in December 2010 - Kenyans are struggling to afford basic commodities like maize, amid a shortage of the staple food.
Women Keen to Ease Greenhouse Effect on Their Ability to Provide
- Inter Press Service
A successful entrepreneurial programme in the north of Namibia that infuses farming practices with gender-responsive environmentalism may serve as a model for other countries on the African continent.
INDIA: 'Seed-Mothers' Confront Climate Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
In eastern Orissa state’s tribal hinterlands about 200 ‘seed-mothers’ are on mission mode - identifying, collecting and conserving traditional seed varieties and motivating farming families to use them.
TRADE: Brazil and Africa Ready to Do the Samba
- Inter Press Service
African trade with India and China flourished over the past decade but, with unemployment rising and industrialisation failing to take hold, cracks are appearing in Africa’s much-vaunted 'Look East' doctrine. Meanwhile, from across the Atlantic, Brazil is making inroads into the continent.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Water Sources Need to be Protected
- Inter Press Service
Seventy-five-year-old Verdiana Protas is worried that the 20 cattle she bought with her pension money will soon die because the 10-kilometre-long river in her village in northwest Tanzania has been dry for two years now and finding alternative sources of water is getting more and more difficult.
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