Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 8
Project to Regularise Rural Land Tenure in Northeast Brazilian State of Piauí
- Inter Press Service
Despite the abundance of natural resources on its more than 25 million hectares of land, including six million hectares ideal for agriculture, the northeast Brazilian state of Piauí has some of the country’s lowest socioeconomic indicators.
Western Ghana’s Fisherfolk Starve Amid Algae Infestation
- Inter Press Service
Sam Kojo stands in a thigh-high pile of brown seaweed that blankets a beach in western Ghana. Behind him, a decomposing mound of Sargassum stretches down the shore past the fishing village of Beyin.
Western Ghana’s Fisherfolk Starve Amid Algae Infestation
- Inter Press Service
Sam Kojo stands in a thigh-high pile of brown seaweed that blankets a beach in western Ghana. Behind him, a decomposing mound of Sargassum stretches down the shore past the fishing village of Beyin.
Mexican Seeds, the New Spoils for Food Corporations
- Inter Press Service
Biodiversity and small and medium farms are threatened in Mexico by the looming approval of a reform of the law on plant varieties that will extend patent rights over seeds, activists and experts warn.
'The Land is Never Wrong', Says Togolese Farmer
- Inter Press Service
Awuissa Walla has no regrets over choosing farming as a profession. He earned a degree in agronomy a decade ago, and borrowing money from friends, set himself up on an 18-hectare plot at Badja, some 50 kilometres from Lomé, the Togolese capital.
Sea Level Rise Threatens Mekong Rice
- Inter Press Service
With Vietnam’s fertile Mekong delta threatened by rising sea levels and salt water ingress, the country’s future as a major rice exporter depends critically on research underway in the Philippines.
Indonesian Farmers Burned in Biofuel Drive
- Inter Press Service
Dreams of sending his children to quality schools have vanished for 40-year-old farmer Muslikin, as the father of three now struggles to repay the bank loan he took out to finance his jatropha plantation in 2006.
Tired of Odd Jobs in the City, He Is Farming in His Old Guinean Village
- Inter Press Service
Like many rural youth, Abdoulaye Soumah spent a few years in Conakry, trying his hand at various jobs in the big city. But he has since returned to his home village, transforming a seven-hectare plot of land inherited from his parents into a model of success.
Listening to the Hum of Tilling Machinery in the Sierra Leone Countryside
- Inter Press Service
In the eastern Sierra Leonean community of Lambayama, rice paddies are carved far into the landscape before being abruptly halted by distant hills. Aside from a paved road that draws a grey line through the green, swampy valley, it looks much as it did a century ago.
India’s Job Guarantee Scheme Under Strain
- Inter Press Service
Standing on a patch of arid, degraded land, 100 km from southern Bangalore city, Ramapal, member of the ‘gram panchayat’ (local village administration), points to a roughly-dug canal feeding a narrow belt of green cultivation.
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