Smallholder Farmers in Uganda Recruit Black Soldier Fly for Green Fertiliser — Global Issues

Smallholder Farmers in Uganda Recruit Black Soldier Fly for Green Fertiliser — Global Issues

Abbey Lubega inside the larvae hatchery unit. Simple tools are used to harvest the larvae and frass. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPS by Wambi Michael (kampala & kayunga) Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Inter Press Service Kampala & Kayunga, Jul 19 (IPS) – The conflict in Ukraine has led to an increase in fertiliser…

Achieving the SDGs in Extraordinary Times — Global Issues

Achieving the SDGs in Extraordinary Times — Global Issues

Woochong Um Opinion by Armida Alisjahbana – Woochong Um – Kanni Wignaraja (bangkok, thailand) Friday, July 15, 2022 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 15 (IPS) – The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented…

The World is Burning. We Need a Renewables Revolution — Global Issues

The World is Burning. We Need a Renewables Revolution — Global Issues

Secretary-General António Guterres Opinion by Antonio Guterres (united nations) Tuesday, July 12, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (IPS) – The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a livable planet lies in abandoning polluting fossil fuels and accelerating the renewables-based energy transition.Nero was famously…

Narrow Valuation of Nature is Widening Biodiversity Loss — Global Issues

Narrow Valuation of Nature is Widening Biodiversity Loss — Global Issues

The launch of the IPBES Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature. The report argues that because nature is poorly valued, this is driving biodiversity loss. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (bulawayo) Monday, July 11, 2022 Inter Press Service Bulawayo, Jul 11 (IPS) – Nature has diverse…

Wild Species Central to Human Survival, New IPBES Report Offers Options for their Sustainable Use — Global Issues

Wild Species Central to Human Survival, New IPBES Report Offers Options for their Sustainable Use — Global Issues

Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar, IPBES Chair, speaking at the IPBES Sustainable Use of Wild Species report in Bonn Germany. The report offers insights, analysis and tools to establish more sustainable use of wild species of plants, animals, fungi and algae around the world. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday,…

Intersecting Crises are Impeding the UNs Sustainable Development Goals, Threatening Peace & Security — Global Issues

Intersecting Crises are Impeding the UNs Sustainable Development Goals, Threatening Peace & Security — Global Issues

Stefan Schweinfest Opinion by Stefan Shweinfest (united nations) Friday, July 08, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) – This week marks the mid-way point to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and with it the release of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022. While we would like…

UN Predicts 68 Percent of World’s Population will be Living in Urban Areas by 2050 — Global Issues

UN Predicts 68 Percent of World’s Population will be Living in Urban Areas by 2050 — Global Issues

A residential building in Nairobi, Kenya. According to UN estimates, by 2050 about 68 per cent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas. Credit: UN-Habitat/Kirsten Milhahn Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Thursday, July 07, 2022 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 07 (IPS) – When we think…

Tap Into Indigenous Knowledge To Preserve Our Forests — Global Issues

Tap Into Indigenous Knowledge To Preserve Our Forests — Global Issues

Opinion by Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue (yaoundÉ) Wednesday, July 06, 2022 Inter Press Service YAOUNDÉ, Jul 06 (IPS) – A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the course of my work in supporting them to preserve their forest against land grabbers….

Recovering Edible Food from Waste Provides Environmental and Social Solutions in Argentina — Global Issues

Recovering Edible Food from Waste Provides Environmental and Social Solutions in Argentina — Global Issues

Tomasa Chávez, bundled up against the cold of the southern hemisphere winter, works at the Central Market in Buenos Aires, where she was hired in 2021 to separate edible waste that can be recovered. Until then, she went there daily on her own for 30 years to look for food…