Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 43
LATIN AMERICA: Tracking Down Radioactive Food Imports
- Inter Press Service
Rather belatedly, Latin America is beginning to test products imported from Japan to check that they are not contaminated with radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear power station that was severely damaged by the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami.
BRAZIL: Science and Sugar Cane Produce Versatile Harvest
- Inter Press Service
For nearly five hundred years, sugar cane was used almost exclusively for making sugar, with a handful of by-products like rum, alcohol and molasses. Now, in Brazil, it has become a source of multiple derivatives, and the focus of much scientific and technological research.
Sky-High Oil Prices Here to Stay
- Inter Press Service
As the Arab world continues to pitch and heave with flashes of popular uprisings here and sparks of brutal crackdowns there, analysts are painting a grim picture of the regional unrest's economic consequences, predicting the persistence of high oil prices in the coming years.
HAITI: Seeding Reconstruction or Destruction?
- Inter Press Service
Last year, tens of thousands of tonnes of tools, seeds and plant cuttings were distributed to almost 400,000 Haitian farming families, perhaps one-third to one-half of the country's farming population.
ZIMBABWE: Farmers Sceptical About 'Complicated' Exchange Market
- Inter Press Service
Kindness Paradza has a mission. After he lost his job as a journalist when the ZANU-PF government closed his newspaper in 2004, he ploughed his life savings into a 2,000 ha farm he received as part of Zimbabwe’s controversial 'land reform programme'.
GUATEMALA: Evictions of Native Families Add Fuel to Fire Over Land Acces
- Inter Press Service
'We have nowhere to plant our corn, we have nothing,' Jorge Chocoj told IPS while waiting with his wife and three children for the police to evict them from the land they farmed in northwestern Guatemala.
AGRICULTURE: Malawian Cotton Farmers Ecstatic Over High Prices
- Inter Press Service
An ardent listener to the radio, small-scale cotton farmer Mercy Kaduya from Chikhwawa in Nsanje in southern Malawi has just heard an item during the international news segment that cotton prices have hit a record high on the international market.
BRAZIL: Women Workers Determined to Ride the Wave of Mechanisation
- Inter Press Service
'She's crazy' said most of the husbands and other family members of the 34 women who decided to become operators of sugarcane harvesters in the southern Brazilian state of São Paulo, attracted by the opportunity of better pay and encouraged by the growing mechanisation of the industry.
South African Farmers Set Up in Congo
- Inter Press Service
In the hope of strengthening its agricultural production, the Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 hectares of arable land to a company owned and operated by 14 South African farmers.
Heaviest Ever Floods in Northern Namibia
- Inter Press Service
North-central Namibia is experiencing the heaviest floods ever recorded, but unlike in previous years, the area is fully prepared.
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