Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 45
Ivorian Cocoa Producers Cry Foul Over Sanctions
- Inter Press Service
The international community's efforts to deny embattled president Laurent Gbagbo access to funds from cocoa exports have resulted in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of Ivorian cocoa surfacing in neighbouring countries. Producers say not only are they selling their perishable crop to black market buyers for a fraction its market value, they are being unfairly victimised by the political situation.
Brazilian Agriculture Can Help Combat Hunger and Inflation
- Inter Press Service
The current rise in agricultural prices, which now overshadows the increase seen in 2008, highlights the contribution that Brazil could make towards curbing the growing hunger and inflation that are threatening the world once again.
Tanzania Biofuel Project's Promise Proves Barren
- Inter Press Service
An ambitious project to produce clean energy for the Netherlands and Belgium has degenerated into a controversial abuse of natural resources in Africa.
Save Climate and Double Food Production With Eco-Farming
- Inter Press Service
Eco-farming could double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change, according to a new U.N. report released Tuesday in Geneva.
OP-ED: Women in Agriculture - Gender Gaps Are Holding Back Development
- Inter Press Service
On the occasion of the 100th celebration of International Women’s Day, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) presented a surprising and alarming assessment of the situation of rural women, based on a comprehensive analysis of men and women farmers around the world.
Soaring Commodity Prices a Mixed Bag for Mexico
- Inter Press Service
While Mexico is earning more revenue from oil exports, the cost of food imports has risen to the point where food security is threatened.
Eat Chinese, But Eat Safe
- Inter Press Service
Despite a greater government effort to monitor food safety in the wake of high profile contamination incidents — including the 2008 melamine milk poisoning scandal that killed six infants and made 300,000 ill — the majority of Chinese still feel insecure about the food they eat.
BRAZIL: Rural Women Protest Use of Toxic Agrochemicals
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of women farmers in Brazil demonstrated this week against the use of toxic weedkillers and pesticides on crops and in favour of agricultural techniques that protect their families' health.
PAKISTAN: New Fears Over Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
'She was just skin and bones, even crying seemed a huge effort,' Hajiani says of one-year-old Samreen Tauqir, when she saw her for the first time two months ago.
Educate the Girl, Empower the Woman
- Inter Press Service
Picture a mother, hunching over a field with a Medieval-style hoe in hand, spending day after day tilling the soil under a beating hot sun - only to retire home to care for her family without electricity or running water.
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