No Perfect Solution: Africas Smallholder Farmers Must Use Both Traditional and New Practices
Feb 07 (IPS) – As an agricultural and environmental scientist, I’ve worked for decades exploring the practical challenges that smallholder farmers encounter in East...
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More support needed for women and girls in super typhoon-ravaged Philippines
As the debris clears, the scale of destruction is laid bare. When Super Typhoon Rai – Odette as it’s known locally – barrelled down...
Conversation with a Media Icon: Dr. Roberto Savio
ROME, Feb 07 (IPS) – The Inter Press Service co-founder is part of a vanishing breedWe are sitting in the heart of Rome, Via...
Long-haul SADC Action Needed to Counter Mozambican Insurgency and Humanitarian Crisis
Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb 07 (IPS) – Ongoing insecurity and an unfolding humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique need a strategically planned response to deal...
Spate of Water Projects in Mexico Ignore Impacts
MEXICO CITY, Feb 07 (IPS) – The Mexican government is prioritizing the construction and modernization of mega water projects, without considering their impacts and...
It is Time for a More Inclusive & Democratic UN
KIGALI/ BERLIN/ KUALA LUMPUR/ KINGSTON, Feb 07 (IPS) – The global challenges we face are too complex for governance as usual. It is high...
An Unending & Uncertain Battle Against the Covid
NEW DELHI, Feb 07 (IPS) – The year 2021 began with several new vaccines showing efficacy in randomized trials, but despite 26 authorised Covid-19...
Haitan teenager spends three years in a Haitian jail for a crime he didn’t commit
A young Haitian man is rebuilding his life, with the support of the UN, after being held in detention for three years, from the...
Forty years ago, Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, known as Pati, left the Mexican city of Querétaro with her family in search of a simple...
Is it Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 04 (IPS) – A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power...
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