African Women Seek to Boost Innovation and Creativity in Agribusiness — Global Issues

African Women Seek to Boost Innovation and Creativity in Agribusiness — Global Issues

Recent trends show that African women are abandoning traditional ways of engaging in agribusiness and adopting an intellectual property approach to transform food systems on the continent. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (kigali) Thursday, June 29, 2023 Inter Press Service KIGALI, Jun 29 (IPS) – Adeline Umukunzi, a 28-year-old woman…

Women’s Savings in Zimbabwe Struggle Under Weight of Unstable Currency — Global Issues

Women’s Savings in Zimbabwe Struggle Under Weight of Unstable Currency — Global Issues

Zimbabwean women’s informal savings clubs have been hit by high inflation and the low value of the country’s currency. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS by Ignatius Banda (bulawayo) Wednesday, June 28, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Jun 28 (IPS) – For years, self-employed and unemployed women in Zimbabwe formed neighbourhood “clubs” where they…

South Sudan President, Education Cannot Wait Jointly Announce Extended Multi-Year Education Response for Crises-Impacted Sudanese Children

South Sudan President, Education Cannot Wait Jointly Announce Extended Multi-Year Education Response for Crises-Impacted Sudanese Children

ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif launches the Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Yirol, South Sudan. The three-year programme, delivered by Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Finn Church Aid, in close conjunction with the Ministry of General Education and Instruction and other partners, will reach at least 135,000 crisis-affected…

Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil — Global Issues

Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil — Global Issues

Lucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the “sertanejo” biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for her varied crops on the one-hectare agroecological farm she manages on her own in the rural municipality of Afogados da Ingazeira, in the semiarid ecoregion of northeastern…

Can the General Assembly Tackle the ClimateSecurity Challenge? — Global Issues

Can the General Assembly Tackle the ClimateSecurity Challenge? — Global Issues

The UN General Assembly in session. Credit: UN Photo Opinion by Florian Krampe, Adam Day (stockholm, sweden) Thursday, June 22, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jun 22 (IPS) – The wildfires raging in Canada are yet another reminder that climate change is already having an impact on all our lives….

Mexico Needs to Step Up Treatment and Reuse of Water to Address Crisis — Global Issues

Mexico Needs to Step Up Treatment and Reuse of Water to Address Crisis — Global Issues

The expansion towards the mountains of the coastal city of Ensenada, in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, stresses the water supply, which is scarce in this peninsular region due to its arid nature and deficiencies in water management. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy/IPS by Emilio Godoy (ensenada, mexico) Wednesday, June 21,…

If Current Trends Continue, Worlds Poor may not Achieve a Single Development Goal by 2030 — Global Issues

If Current Trends Continue, Worlds Poor may not Achieve a Single Development Goal by 2030 — Global Issues

by Thalif Deen (united nations) Wednesday, June 21, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21 (IPS) – When the 193-member General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development back in September 2015, it was aimed at transforming the world into an idealistic state of peace and economic prosperity. But…

Innovative Approach to Sustainable Development Policy and Investment for Public, Private Sectors — Global Issues

Innovative Approach to Sustainable Development Policy and Investment for Public, Private Sectors — Global Issues

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, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jun 20 (IPS) – Oil palm has brought significant benefits and prosperity to Liberia. The export of…

Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassadors Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy — Global Issues

Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassadors Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy — Global Issues

Yohei 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 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jun 19 (IPS) – In 1974, Yohei Sasakawa accompanied his father to a leprosy hospital he had funded….