News headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 47
Kenyan Pastoralists Look Back to Secure Their Future
- Inter Press Service
David Lenamira, watching as usual from a seat outside his compound, has no trouble picking out his sheep as the herd boys drive them home every evening. The red-brown animals are smaller than those in his neighbours' herds, but he's proud of them just the same.
TRADE: 'Poor Countries Have Already Given Enough in Doha Round'
- Inter Press Service
South Africa has expressed sharp concern over concerted attempts by leading industrialised countries, particularly the U.S. and the European Union (EU), to extract onerous commitments from developing countries as a condition to concluding the stalled Doha Round trade negotiations.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Securing Safe Water for a Million More
- Inter Press Service
Long years of armed conflict have obstructed development in the areas on either side of the Angola-Namibia border. Now a 45 million dollar infrastructure upgrade is set to improve access to clean drinking water and decent sanitation for one million people.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Fisheries Need Transparent Regulation
- Inter Press Service
Senegalese fishers participating in the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) warned governments to 'wake up to the ethical and transparent regulation of access to fisheries' to halt the overexploitation of this increasingly scarce resource.
Water Evaporates in Peru's For-Export Crops
- Inter Press Service
As freshwater disappears from the super-populated Peruvian coast, the most water-intensive crops are expanding unabated as highly profitable exports. Observers warn about the harm this is causing and demand greater responsibility from the government and all involved.
MEXICO: Agave Sweetens Economic Prospects of Indigenous Women
- Inter Press Service
With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous steel pot.
Rising Food Prices May Not Signal New Crisis
- Inter Press Service
As food prices rose for the seventh month in a row in January, contributing to recent popular unrest in the Middle East and a spike in commodities purchases by developing countries last week, some analysts are quick to make comparisons to the dry years of 2007-2008.
Q&A: Hunger, Food Shortages Fuel Uprisings
- Inter Press Service
The rise in food prices and growing hunger, one of the causes of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries in the Arab world, is due to financial speculation and not a lack of arable land, says Janaina Stronzake, a leader of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST).
TRADE: Doha Round Tariffs Cuts 'Will Still Hit' Poor Countries
- Inter Press Service
To allow least developed countries (LDCs) to protect nascent industries, they are not required to cut tariffs for industrial goods and fisheries in the Doha Development Round. However, tariffs cuts will affect them if they are members of customs unions where some of their neighbours are larger developing countries without LDC status.
SWAZILAND: Heavy Rains Welcome in the Mountain Kingdom
- Inter Press Service
There's nothing quite like the enthusiasm that rises from the earth when rains come at last to a drought-stricken region. While heavy rains have caused extensive flooding across Southern Africa, with fears of worse to come, in at least one corner of the region the community is gazing with joy at an overflowing dam.