Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 44
DR CONGO: Beauty of a Bean Wins Farmers' Hearts
- Inter Press Service
Smallholder farmers in Bandundu Province are boosting their harvests with the help of the sweetly-named velvet bean.
KENYA: Women Hold the Key to Rural Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
John Kyalo Mulwa couldn't support his family from his six hectare farm, so he quit farming to open a bar. But he turned the land - and decision-making on it - over to his wife. Turns out she's a better farmer than he ever was.
Sugar Cane and Ethanol Boom Drives Development in Southern Brazil
- Inter Press Service
The roads are exceptionally good and numerous here, in contrast with other parts of Brazil, but the monotony of the landscape is not inviting to tourists. Sugar cane fields stretch to the horizon along a 400-km stretch of highway to the north of São Paulo.
Manufacturing in Africa Can be Profitable — And Developmental
- Inter Press Service
Investing in beneficiation of raw materials is crucial for the development of the African continent. Some foreign entrepreneurs have created food-processing businesses in Africa and are making good money, despite an occasionally difficult business environment.
MALI: Early Anxiety Over Price of Grain
- Inter Press Service
In the small village of Gwélékoro, 60 kilometres south of the capital, Bamako, the fields are empty now, during the dry season. After a poor harvest, farmers are worried by swiftly rising prices for staple foods like sorghum and millet.
COLOMBIA: Return of Land to Displaced Farmers Picks Up Steam
- Inter Press Service
'Wholesale land titling' Colombia's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Juan Camilo Restrepo announced Tuesday, adding that titles would no longer only be handed over to individuals who file land claims, but to entire groups of people in specific rural areas.
ARGENTINA: Rural Slavery at Time of Record Earnings
- Inter Press Service
Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness.
Agricultural Policy Is Gender Policy
- Inter Press Service
Eva, a Ghanian woman, was given five pigs and some training on how best to care for them. Eventually, her farm grew to 400 pigs and she was able to buy more land and a motorbike which she not only used for transporting her goods to market but for helping neighbours get to town and to hospital quicker.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Plumbing Grey Data for Clear Water
- Inter Press Service
They come like pilgrims to the Department of Geological Surveys office in Lobatse, 120 kilometres south of the Botswanan capital. In the sparsely furnished offices there, they pore over charts, trying to take the guesswork out of choosing where to sink a borehole.
INDIA: Tech to the Rescue of School Lunch Model
- Inter Press Service
Surrounded by lush green wheat and yellow flowering mustard fields at Ekdanta primary school, it is noon and the 57 children in two combined classes are fidgety - impatient for the school served midday meal.
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