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…

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

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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…

Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil — Global Issues

Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil — Global Issues

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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…

Perus Agro-Export Boom Has not Boosted Human Development — Global Issues

Perus Agro-Export Boom Has not Boosted Human Development — Global Issues

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Her hands loaded with crates, Susan Quintanilla, a union leader of agro-export workers in the department of Ica in southwestern Peru, gets ready to collect different vegetables and fruits for foreign markets. She has witnessed many injustices, saying the companies “made you feel like they were doing you a favor…

Star Wars Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Symbolises A Litany of Firsts For Women — Global Issues

Star Wars Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Symbolises A Litany of Firsts For Women — Global Issues

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (L) on the set of Ms Marvel, directing actor Mehwish Hayat (R). Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi) Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Apr 25 (IPS) – The announcement by Lucas film’s president, Kathleen Kennedy, about the upcoming three new live-action Star Wars films was enough…

Gender Central to Parliamentarians Programme of Action — Global Issues

Gender Central to Parliamentarians Programme of Action — Global Issues

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Cooperative members in southern Lebanon make a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut. Women are central to meeting the SDGs, say parliamentarians. Credit: UN Women/Joe Saade by IPS Correspondent (johannesburg) Thursday, February 23, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, Feb 23 (IPS)…

Women Commuters Travel Safe in Innovative Bus Scheme in Pakistan — Global Issues

Women Commuters Travel Safe in Innovative Bus Scheme in Pakistan — Global Issues

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Women students and workers travel free from harassment in the BRT buses, which reserves seats for them in the conservative region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. by Ashfaq Yusufzai Wednesday, January 04, 2023 Inter Press Service Jan 04 (IPS) – A bus rapid transport (BRT) system in Peshawar is benefiting female students…

Reform Needed As Big Business, Not Vulnerable Communities Benefit from Post-Pandemic Support — Global Issues

Reform Needed As Big Business, Not Vulnerable Communities Benefit from Post-Pandemic Support — Global Issues

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Informal sector only received 4 percent of post pandemic funds even though the sector accounts for more than 2 billion workers, many of whom are women. Credit: IITA by Ed Holt (bratislava) Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Oct 12 (IPS) – Governments and international financial institutions must adopt…