Ortensia Tserem, a 27-year-old indigenous woman from the Amazon jungle, arrived with her partner to the coastal city of Ica in search of better economic opportunities. She never imagined that living without water would become part of her daily life. In her wooden shack in a poor neighborhood on the…
Young woman sips an orange soda and waits for the rain to stop, on the porch of a small country store in a rural village in Bungoma County, Kenya. Credit: IFAD/Susan Beccio. by Paul Virgo (rome) Thursday, July 20, 2023 Inter Press Service ROME, Jul 20 (IPS) – The climate, conflict and…
Ibrahim Mayaki, Africa Union Special Envoy for Food Systems Opinion by Kingsley Ighobor (united nations) Thursday, July 20, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 20 (IPS) – Q: As the African Union Special Envoy for Food Systems, what is the scope of your mandate and what should Africans expect…
Climate change poses a direct threat to small-scale peasants in Afghanistan, with soaring summer temperatures and frigid winters becoming increasingly challenging. Monday, July 17, 2023 Inter Press Service Jul 17 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is…
Ligoria Felipe dos Santos poses for a photo on her agroecological farm that mixes corn, squash, fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. She is part of the women’s movement that is trying to prevent the installation of wind farms in the Borborema mountain range, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Paraíba….
A view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines have already been built in the mountains of the Seridó mountain range, which vertically cross the state of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil, and are…
Cecilia Menjivar, a tortilla maker in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, takes a break from cooking corn in a pot that is one meter high and 50 centimeters in diameter, heated by a wood stove. Many women in urban and rural areas run these small businesses, aware of…
Eronildes da Silva proudly stands next to a bunch of bananas on his farm, whose large size is the result, he says, of the effective fertilizer of reusing waste water. In addition to farming, he drives a school bus and builds rainwater tanks in Afogados da Ingazeira, in Brazil’s semiarid…
Chef Fatmata Binta. The United Nations has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets to promote their cultivation. Credit: ©FAO/Chef Binta by Paul Virgo (rome) Friday, June 30, 2023 Inter Press Service ROME, Jun 30 (IPS) – Get yourself a nice big pot full of water, dice some onions and throw…
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…
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