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...
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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...
Tech Savvy Youth with High Social-Emotional Skills Succeed in Agriculture – Study Shows
IBADAAN, Nigeria, Mar 23 (IPS) – Saheed Babajide, a young animal production graduate and a manager at a national milk production company in Iseyin, Nigeria,...
Centering Equity: A Vision for Global Health in 2021
DEHRADUN, India/OXFORD, UK, Mar 24 (IPS) – 2020 will be remembered as the year that changed the world, as COVID-19 spared no country, no...
Hope & Numbers: What will it take to Tip the Scales on Climate Action?
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Mar 24 (IPS) – The writer is International Climate Political Advisor at Greenpeace InternationalWe should be well on the way to...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 23 (IPS) – At least 85 poor countries will not have significant access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023. Unfortunately,...
Human Rights Groups Demand an end to Myanmar Militarys Crackdown on Journalists
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 22 (IPS) – Two human rights groups have called on the military in Myanmar to release journalists arbitrarily jailed and allow...
UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it 
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