With one-fifth of farming households dependent on palm oil production, policy considerations that look after the environment, lives, and livelihoods were essential. by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, June 20,…
Read more Innovative Approach to Sustainable Development Policy and Investment for Public, Private SectorsYohei Sasakawa chronicles his campaign to rid the world of leprosy in his biography Making the Impossible Possible. Credit: Hurst Publishers by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Monday, June 19, 2023…
Read more Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassadors Lifelong Frontline Battle to End LeprosyMartina Santa Cruz, a peasant farmer from the village of Sacllo in the southern Peruvian Andes highlands department of Cuzco, is pleased with her remodeled kitchen where a…
Read more Healthy Homes – A Right of Rural Families in PeruOpinion by Richard Kozul Wright (geneva) Thursday, June 15, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Jun 15 (IPS) – After years of failing to meet climate finance commitments, the new…
Read more A Climate Finance Goal That Works for Developing CountriesOpinion by Yasmine Sherif (new york) Wednesday, June 14, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jun 14 (IPS) – As we head into June, we will commemorate a number…
Read more No Peace Until Peace For AllTemporary medical camps are still the norm in some areas of Pakistan as the country struggles to recover from last year’s flooding. Now areas of the country are…
Read more Food Insecurity Fears as Pakistan Faces Cyclone, Monsoon SeasonConscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) promotes consciousness as a key evidence-based practice to support systemic change – reframing how people think about food to unlock food systems transformation,…
Read more Transforming Food Systems through Conscious, Mindful PracticesAbdulwasea Mohammed addressing UN Member States, UN agencies, fellow NGOs during Protection of Civilians Week last month. Credit: Oxfam Opinion by Abdulwasea Mohammed (sana’a, yemen) Tuesday, June 06, 2023…
Read more Conflict & Hunger Deeply Embedded in War-Ravaged YemenFake or substandard antimalarial medicines kill as many as 267,000 sub-Saharan Africans every year. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, June 02, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID,…
Read more Of the Sahel and the Merchants of DeathEphraim Walters in his fishing shed. The father of nine has been a fisherman for 59 years. Credit: Zadie Neufville/IPS by Zadie Neufville (rocky point, jamaica) Friday, June 02,…
Read more Rocky Point Fishers Await Sanctuary To Ease Environmental Issues, Low Fish CatchHer hands loaded with crates, Susan Quintanilla, a union leader of agro-export workers in the department of Ica in southwestern Peru, gets ready to collect different vegetables and…
Read more Perus Agro-Export Boom Has not Boosted Human DevelopmentDr Paul Kinoti at the JKUAT snail farm, where he is researching the potential of snail slime cough syrup. Credit: Wilson Odhiambo/IPS by Wilson Odhiambo (nairobi) Monday, May 29,…
Read more Kenyan Scientists Trend-Setting Research into Health Benefits of SnailsThe UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has now reported on the “Staggering’ rise in climate emergencies in the last 20 years.’ Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS by Baher Kamal (rome)…
Read more Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get WorseYoung women from the Brazilian state of Bahia attend an informational campaign which also hands out menstrual hygiene products. Poverty and the lack of adequate information on this…
Read more Menstrual Health and Hygiene Is Unaffordable for Poor Girls and Women in Latin AmericaJaggery making on a sugarcane farm in Mandla. Small-scale farmers in India are benefitting from a scheme where they are able to diversify their farms and get support…
Read more How Farmer Producer Organisations Benefit Small Scale Farmers in IndiaOpinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 25 (IPS) – As a matter of global justice, the climate crisis…
Read more Climate Change Gets Its Day in CourtOpinion by Kirsten Stade (st paul, minnesota, usa) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Inter Press Service ST PAUL, Minnesota, USA, May 25 (IPS) – A new study estimates that global…
Read more Population Denialism is Reminiscent of Climate DenialismManou Gounou, a volunteer trainer for food security, stands with a moringa plant at Gbegourou Epicenter in Benin in 2021. The moringa plant is highly nutritious and The…
Read more World Hunger Day: Renewing Our Commitment to Elevating Women as Change Agents for Ending HungerYellowfin tuna diving. Opinion by Grantly Galland (washington dc) Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, May 23 (IPS) – Global fisheries are worth more than US$140…
Read more Governments Are Changing Fisheries Management for the Better, but More Action Is Still NeededOne of the rainwater harvesting systems installed in rural settlements in eastern El Salvador, in the Central American Dry Corridor. It is based on a system of pipes…
Read more Rainwater Harvesting Brings Hope for Central Americas Dry Corridor – Video
