Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 53
INDIA: Brakes Applied to SUVs - 'Socially Useless Vehicles'
- Inter Press Service
Indian owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and luxury cars, who have been benefiting from subsidies on diesel meant to help farmers, may soon have to pay real prices for their fuel.
Quantifying Latin American Cattle Emissions a Vital Climate Tool
- Inter Press Service
Some of Latin America's major cattle-producing countries will begin working as a team in 2011 to quantify the greenhouse-effect gas emissions from their bovine industry -- and to come up with options for reducing them.
COLOMBIA: Climate Science Reaching Out for Traditional Farmers' Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
The wide-ranging knowledge about climate variation possessed by native people and other small farmers, such as the people in one region of Colombia, is almost a perfect match to scientific measurements recorded on high-tech instruments.
The Roof Is Now the Field
- Inter Press Service
'We grow on our roof because we are farmers but have no land now,' says Moatassan Hamad, 21, from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip.
AFRICA: Food Versus Biofuels Debate Continues
- Inter Press Service
'We’re going to Cancún no better off than we were in Copenhagen,' said Thuli Makama, the director of Friends of the Earth Swaziland, as she prepared to leave for the climate negotiations in Mexico.
DEVELOPMENT-MOZAMBIQUE: Hunger Stalks 55 Percent of Adults
- Inter Press Service
Baptista Macule is sitting on a sack of groundnuts in a dusty side-alley near the sprawling, makeshift Malanga market on the outskirts of Maputo. He squints into the sun as he tries to explain the extent of poverty in his country.
AFRICA: Threat of a Perfect Storm - AIDS and a Fresh Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
In November, the Food and Agriculture Organisation was just one of many voices warning that food prices have risen to levels last seen at the start of the 2007-2008 crisis. A majority of the countries most exposed to a repeat of that problem are in Africa, where vulnerability to food security is exacerbated by AIDS.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Watchful Eye on Deadly Stock Disease
- Inter Press Service
Government spokesperson Dr Mohamed Bakari says Tanzania has contained an epidemic of viral disease that had affected the northern part of the country, mainly around Arusha, since the start of the year.
UGANDA: Carbon Finance May Not Benefit Forest Communities
- Inter Press Service
Uganda has lost more than two million hectares of forest since 1990, mostly converted to farmland by a growing population of smallholders. Carbon finance through the REDD programme is often presented as one way to arrest this destruction, but only if the benefits clearly translate to the grassroots.
DEVELOPMENT: Economic Boom Worsened De-industrialisation of LDCs
- Inter Press Service
Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. Significantly, the agricultural sector has also not benefited, with the result that LDC reliance on imported food has become even worse.
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