Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 42
India Resists Ban on Deadly Pesticide
- Inter Press Service
Will India, the world’s biggest manufacturer of the pesticide endosulfan, and also the biggest victim of the toxic pesticide, persist with opposing its ban globally?
EAST AFRICA: Women Breaking Through Trade Barriers
- Inter Press Service
For 12 years now, the women around Tsangano in Malawi’s southern district of Ntcheu have put together their tomato harvest, selling some 20 tons at the outdoor markets that abound in Lilongwe, the capital. But they have very little to show for their hard work.
Colonial-Style Land Grabbing Back on the Table
- Inter Press Service
The highly-contested Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI), a set of priorities that peasants’ collectives and food rights groups have been battling for years, are back on the table this week, as the annual Conference on Land and Poverty opened at World Bank headquarters here Monday.
DEVELOPMENT: Swazi Village Tastes Sweet Success with Sugarcane
- Inter Press Service
The previously impoverished community of Malibeni, previously ravaged by drought, is bustling with farmers who have transformed the area into a bread basket. Lush green fields of sugarcane and vegetables have replaced an expanse of dry shrubs near this community in northeastern Swaziland.
SENEGAL: Dispute Over Fishing Permits for Foreign Fleets Hots Up
- Inter Press Service
Senegal's small-scale fishers are challenging the government over licences granting foreign trawlers permission to fish in Senegalese waters. The artisanal fishers condemn the 'selling off' of the country's fishery resources at a time when stocks off Senegal's coast are severely depleted.
DEVELOPMENT: IBSA Fund Packs Small But Sustainable Punches
- Inter Press Service
Despite only three million dollars a year coming into the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation, it aims to pack punches above its weight with small but sustainable projects.
A Table for Nine Billion
- Inter Press Service
As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund convene for their annual Spring Meetings here, soaring food prices are high on the agenda, prompting some analysts to fast-forward to 2050 and the question of how to nourish the mid-century's estimated world population of 8.9 billion people — the majority of whom will live in developing countries.
Kenyan Women Pulling Together Against Poverty
- Inter Press Service
When it works, it's spectacular: Esther Ngonyo Njuguna's dairy project stands as testimony to the potential of microcredit schemes to boost rural incomes.
BRAZIL: Sugar Cane Fertilises Its Own Soil
- Inter Press Service
The mechanisation of sugar cane harvesting, originally aimed at curbing the pollution caused by the burning of cane fields, has resulted in an added bonus: it has helped to improve soil quality, according to growers and technical experts in the southern state of São Paulo, where most of Brazil’s sugar and ethanol is produced.
BRAZIL: Sugar Cane Fields Turned into Industry in Sertãozinho
- Inter Press Service
'A disappointment' was his first impression of his new city. It was small, half the size of his hometown of Barretos, and had 'weak lights,' says Marcelo Pelegrini, remembering his family's move to this southern Brazilian city when he was nine years old, after his father got a job transfer.
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