Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 37
MALAWI: Village Hands Join to Save Forest for Juice
- Inter Press Service
Seventy kilometres outside Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, a profitable cooperative enterprise is providing villagers jobs and preserving forests.
OP-ED: The Great Land Grab: India's War on Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Land is life. It is the basis of livelihoods for peasants and indigenous people across the Third World and is also becoming the most vital asset in the global economy.
Solid Growth Forecast for Global South, But Threats Loom
- Inter Press Service
While most of the developing world should enjoy solid economic growth through 2013, several factors could upset such a scenario, according to the latest Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report released by the World Bank here Tuesday.
Reimagining Food Systems in the Midst of a Hunger Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Today one billion people are living in hunger, not because of scarcity of production or a shortage of food on shelves in the global marketplace, but because they 'lack the most basic purchasing power needed to acquire it', Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said Thursday.
Higher Tobacco Taxes Cure for Killer Addiction
- Inter Press Service
The world is facing a 'global epidemic in need of a global effort', according to a panel of experts on tobacco control, who met at the United Nations Tuesday to commemorate World No Tobacco Day.
BRAZIL: Activists Call for Stronger Action against Violence in Amazon
- Inter Press Service
Organisations of small farmers and human rights groups are disappointed with the measures announced by the Brazilian government to address the problem of violence in the Amazon jungle region, after four environmental activists were murdered in less than a week.
CARIBBEAN: EU Trade Pact Brings Both Setbacks and Opportunities
- Inter Press Service
In his first address to the board of governors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Warren Smith, the new president of the region's premier lending financial institution, warned of insecurities engulfing Caribbean economies.
‘Europe Worsening Hunger Worldwide’
- Inter Press Service
With spiralling food prices threatening to leave millions more people hungry every year, European countries must abandon subsidies and higher production targets for biofuels, the anti-poverty group Oxfam warns.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Macadamia Trees Offer Lifeline to Small Farmers
- Inter Press Service
A project to help reforest after the devastation of Hurricane David 32 years ago has grown into a plan to lift small coffee farmers out of poverty, all by the introduction of a gourmet ice cream.
Europe Sowing the Seeds of Hunger
- Inter Press Service
Europe is facing a hungry future unless it changes agricultural policies and makes farmers the main participants in agriculture research, a new report has found. And there is little hope of meeting Europe's recently announced goal of reducing the loss of biodiversity in ten years without making those changes.
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