Arab Region Counts Cost of Devastating COVID-19 Pandemic
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 29 (IPS) – More than eight million people moved onto the poverty line in the Arab region, a conference of...
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 29 (IPS) – Nuhara Syeda is with HarvestPlus, which is part of the CGIAR* Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and...
NEW YORK, Mar 29 (IPS) – Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Juan Somavia, Jeffrey Sachs, Jose Antonio Ocampo and more than 100 high-level development experts...
After the Ever Given: What the Ship Wedged in the Suez Canal Means for Global Trade
Mar 26 (IPS) – In the early hours of March 23, the container ship Ever Given was blown off course by high winds on...
MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) – A compilation of testimonies collected by Blanca Velázquez Díaz and published by the Ebert Foundation (available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/mexiko/17328.pdf)...
A Look at Colombian Coffee Prices One Year on From the Stabilization Fund
MEDELLIN, Colombia, Mar 26 (IPS) – It’s been just over a year since the Colombian government launched its landmark price stabilization fund. With a...
MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) – In March 2014, Noemi N. took her own life inside a refuge camp in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, where...
Humanitarian & Food Aid Can Never be Enough to Manage Cascading Disasters
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 (IPS) – The intersection of crisis, climate change and COVID-19 has resulted in a “rapid rise in hunger”, according to...
Debt Moratoria in the Next Pandemic: Be Prepared, and Be Fair
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 25 (IPS) – Imagine it is 2025 and that, unfortunately, another pandemic is sweeping the world. Much like in the 2020...
DHAKA, Mar 24 (IPS) – The building that was once the largest health centre in the Kutupalong refugee camp, serving some 55,000 Rohingya refugees...
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