Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 40
ECONOMY: Malawians Keen to Build Trade Ties with India
- Inter Press Service
Building on historical relationships, Malawians have set their sights on strengthening trade and investment relations with India in sectors as diverse as agriculture, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals.
BRAZIL: Accusations Mount against Pulp and Paper Giant
- Inter Press Service
Brazilian and international environmental organisations and peasant farmer movements are taking aim at the forestry industry once again, this time accusing transnational corporation Stora Enso of illegally profiting from the production of wood pulp in the state of Bahia.
DR CONGO: Sowing the Seeds of Food Security in Bandundu
- Inter Press Service
Subsistence farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southwestern Bandundu Province are seeing their harvests double, thanks to an ambitious programme of support by the government.
AFRICA: Development Agencies Support Harmful Oil Palm Production
- Inter Press Service
Increasing industrial production of oil palm in sub-Saharan African countries, carried out by foreign corporations, is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of Africans and the biodiversity of ecosystems. Despite this, industrialised countries’ governments and development agencies continue to promote such production.
DEVELOPMENT: Plotting a World Without LDCs
- Inter Press Service
Malawi's gross domestic product has grown by more than six percent in each year since 2005. The country's most recent Welfare Monitoring Survey finds unemployment stands at just one percent. At a glance, Malawi makes being a landlocked, least developed country almost desirable.
AFRICA: Investment Growth Benefiting Only Some Poor States
- Inter Press Service
While foreign direct investment in least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa has risen sharply over the past decade, most of it went to resource-rich economies and had little impact on employment creation.
North Korea Hungry for Aid
- Inter Press Service
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) lived through a famine that killed, at conservative estimates, nearly a million people in the 1990s, and is now nearing the brink of a second food disaster, according to an extensive study conducted this year by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).
ENVIRONMENT: Endosulfan Ban Highlights Need for Alternatives
- Inter Press Service
The upsurge in the use of the toxic pesticide endosulfan, targeted for prohibition by the international community, illustrates one of the dilemmas of intensive agriculture in Argentina and Latin America in general.
Food Price Hike Worsens Poverty in Asia
- Inter Press Service
An annual meeting of Asian finance ministers and central bank governors in Hanoi is set to address the fate of 64 million people in the region on the brink of extreme poverty. They are the worst affected by soaring food prices, which have hit record highs in the first two months of this year.
COLOMBIA: Displaced Campesinos Want a Say on Land Restitution Bill
- Inter Press Service
The Colombian government has been extolling a bill on Victims and Land Restitution which is being debated in Congress and is receiving extensive media coverage. But the demands of the victims themselves, forcibly displaced campesinos, are falling on deaf ears.
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