Nergui Manalsuren UNITED NATIONS, May 19 2008 (IPS) – A rolling tsunami of social unrest is underway as we speak hungry people are desperate people capable of taking desperate actions. This tsunami is rapidly enveloping the global South, and it…
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 2011 (IPS) – Home to a fast-growing network of farmers markets, cooperatives and organic farms, but also the breeding ground for mammoth for-profit corporations that now hold patents to over 50 percent of the world s seeds,…
The budgets of many African countries reflect greater interest in arms deals than in managing the deadly HIV epidemic. Credit: Thomas Martinez/IPS JOHANNESBURG/NEW YORK, Aug 13 2014 (IPS) – They say there is a war on and its target is…
BhagyaAmma, a Madiga Dalit woman and former ‘devadasi’ (temple slave), has found economic self-reliance by rearing goats in the Nagenhalli village in the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS BELLARY, India, Apr 21 2015 (IPS) – HuligeAmma, a…
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 25 2017 (IPS) – The deliberate starvation of civilians could amount to a war crime and should be prosecuted, said an independent UN human rights expert. In a new report, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to…
Rémi Nono Womdim, Deputy Director, FAO Plant Production and Protection Division A new USD 500 million initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is leading the way. Fall Armyworm larva feeding and damaging maize plant.…
A municipal truck sanitizes the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh in order to prevent COVID-19. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jun 22 2020 (IPS) – One of the most densely populated countries in the world, Bangladesh exemplifies the triple blow that many emerging market…