Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 50
India Emerges as the World’s Suicide Centre
- Inter Press Service
'India has become the suicide capital of the world,' says Daya Sandhu, a counselling psychology professor at the University of Louisville in the U.S.
Bahrain’s Farms Disappearing Under Concrete Towers
- Inter Press Service
Environmentalists are engaged in a nation-wide campaign to protect what is left of the agricultural belt in Bahrain. Seventy percent of farms have been eliminated due to urbanisation, according to environmentalists who are warning of a serious environmental crisis.
BRAZIL: Resilient Plants Could Hold Key to Adapting Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
A vision of 'the Apocalypse, everything burnt, turned black from ashes and smoke,' was what photographer Mila Petrillo saw when she returned in October to what had been her Eden in the Brazilian municipality of Alto Paraiso, 230 km from Brasilia.
AGRICULTURE: CASSAVA COMBATING RURAL HUNGER
- Inter Press Service
SRI LANKA: Economy Going Nuts
- Inter Press Service
At a marketplace near Colombo, consumers scramble for coconuts being sold from a state-owned truck. Sri Lanka is the world’s fourth largest coconut producer and a major exporter; but a crop shortfall and a drought have forced the country to import coconuts.
BRAZIL: Climate Change Means New Crop Health Concerns
- Inter Press Service
Farming around the globe, already reeling from drought, heat waves and major storms, will have to prepare for the new challenges that global warming will bring, especially in the form of pests and disease.
BRAZIL: Oil Palm Plantations Expand on Degraded Land in Amazon
- Inter Press Service
Brazil hopes to eventually become a major producer of palm oil, thanks to the expansion of this new exotic monoculture crop in the eastern Amazon jungle, where eucalyptus plantations are also mushrooming on broad swaths of already deforested land.
AGRICULTURE - SOUTH AFRICA: Small Scale Farmers Face Uphill Battle
- Inter Press Service
Just before sunrise 39-year -old Alan Simons, an emerging small-scale farmer, gets ready for his usual nine-hour day of harvesting, packing and deliveries. In his black Nissan van he drives ten kilometres to the seaside town of Strand outside of Cape Town to pick up his six workers, all of who are women.
GAMBIA: Families Left Homeless by Floods
- Inter Press Service
Amie Manneh and her family lived securely in their single-bedroom home in Bundung, 15 kilometers from the capital, Banjul. Then their home was destroyed by heavy rainfall in September. Since then Amie, her husband and six children have been living in the damaged house.
FOOD CRISIS: Two New Varieties of Vegetables on Kenyan Food Market
- Inter Press Service
Agriculture remains one of the most significant economic activities in Kenya. It accounts for over 24 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with an estimated 70 percent of total production coming from small scale farmers who typically have about 2-5 acres of land, depending on the region.
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