Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

While cooking on one side of her wooden tin-roofed house, Mercedes Marcahuachi describes her long day’s work to meet the needs of her household and of the soup kitchen where she serves 150 daily rations at the low price of 80 cents of a dollar, in one of the settlements…

Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast — Global Issues

Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast — Global Issues

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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…

Celebrity Chefs Enlisted to Put Climate-Hardy Millets Back on the Menu — Global Issues

Celebrity Chefs Enlisted to Put Climate-Hardy Millets Back on the Menu — Global Issues

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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…

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

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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…

Food Insecurity Fears as Pakistan Faces Cyclone, Monsoon Season — Global Issues

Food Insecurity Fears as Pakistan Faces Cyclone, Monsoon Season — Global Issues

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Temporary 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 facing Cyclone Biparjoy and a monsoon season, and warnings are that food insecurity may increase. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Tuesday,…

Close Inequalities to End AIDS & Prepare for Future Pandemics — Global Issues

Close Inequalities to End AIDS & Prepare for Future Pandemics — Global Issues

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Thembeni Mkingofa, a woman living with HIV, visits the PMTCT section of the Makhume District Hospital, Zimbabwe. She has three children – 14, 10 and 2 who are all HIV negative. This is her fourth pregnancy. Her husband is also on HIV treatment. Here she is pictured with her two-year-old…