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[ad_1] Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Ndongo Samba Sylla (dakar and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, November 22, 2022 Inter Press Service DAKAR and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 (IPS)...
[ad_1] Activists say governments should be urgedto put agriculture onto the negotiating table at COP27 especially to diverse,resilient agroecological farming are crucial for farmers which will...
[ad_1] Water scarcity in the Middle East is impacting on lives and causing diplomatic tensions in between countries. The Turkish dam project, which includes the large...
[ad_1] In each of the three global food crises studied, financial speculation has caused steep increases in prices, making food inaccessible to hundreds of millions of...
[ad_1] Urgent immediate actions must be taken now, both to address the crisis in the short-term and long-term. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois,...
[ad_1] Dr Alice Karanja is a post-doctoral research fellow at the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya, where her research focuses on restoration of agricultural...
[ad_1] One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater. Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, known as...
[ad_1] Travelers await the Laos-China Railway. Credit: Bridget Dooley/IPS by Bridget Dooley (vientiane, laos) Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Inter Press Service VIENTIANE, Laos, Oct 18 (IPS) –...
[ad_1] Laboni Akhter works on a laptop in front of the digital service centre at Bawalkar village in Badarkhali, Barguna district, southern Bangladesh, in September 2022....
[ad_1] Rural women are less able to access land, credit, agricultural inputs, markets, and high-value agrifood chains and obtain lower prices for their crops. Credit: Mallika...
[ad_1] Om, a homestay owner in Paro, is hoping to value add after growing strawberries in her small greenhouse. Credit: Chhimi Dema/IPS by Chhimi Dema (paro, bhutan)...
[ad_1] Climate change, among other crises, has impacted on food security. Changing rainfall patterns have affected a rural community from Kondh Adivasis, Odisha. Credit: Credit: Aniket...
[ad_1] Lourdes Barreto squats in her greenhouse garden in the village of Huasao in the municipality of Oropesa, in the Andes highlands of the southern Peruvian...
[ad_1] Richard Mbaria makes a point at his potato in Kapsita village of Nakuru County, Kenya. The farmer has increased his production per acre thanks to...
[ad_1] Clearing ground to grow vegetables-Sultan’s Kinnow orchard. Credit: Alefia Hussain/IPS by Alefia Hussain (lahore, pakistan) Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Inter Press Service LAHORE, Pakistan, Oct 11...
[ad_1] Experts from the Netherlands and Bangladesh visit the Rupsha River in Khulna, southern Bangladesh, the planned site of future fish farms. Credit: IPS/Gemcon by Mosabber...
[ad_1] Cattle are important for economic growth and in supporting livelihoods across Africa. Livestock farmers in Nkayi, Zimbabwe, tending to their cattle. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by...
[ad_1] On the suspension bridge that crosses the Vilcanota River, in the village of Secsencalla, in the Andes highlands region of Cuzco, Peru, a group of...
[ad_1] Large cardamom grower Kaushila Moktan at her farm in Salakpur, eastern Nepal. Credit: Birat Anupam/IPS by Birat Anupam (salakpur, nepal) Thursday, September 29, 2022 Inter Press...
[ad_1] by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Sep 28 (IPS) – These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of...