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How equal rights boosts food security

by IRIN News April 1, 2014

Eliminating the gender gap in agriculture is widely seen as crucial to alleviating poverty and improving food security, and the effects of inequality are likely to be further compounded by climate change. ...

Panel’s warning on climate risk: Worst is yet to come

by Justin Gillis New York Times March 31, 2014

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported on Monday, and they warned that the problem was likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control....

General who led overthrow of Egypt’s first elected government and is now the defacto ruler to run for president of Egypt

by David D Kirkpatrick New York Times March 26, 2014

CAIRO — Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, the defense minister and military officer who led last summer’s takeover of the elected government in Egypt, formally announced on Wednesday that he was resigning from the army and running for president as he moved to consolidate his power....

529 Egyptians sentenced to death over the killing of a police officer

by David D Kirkpatrick New York Times March 24, 2014

MINYA, Egypt — A crowd gathered outside a courthouse in the town of Matay erupted in wailing and rage on Monday when a judge sentenced 529 defendants to death in just the second session of their trial, convicting them of murdering a police officer in anger at the ouster of the Islamist president. ...

El Salvador ex-rebel’s presidential victory confirmed

by BBC News March 17, 2014

El Salvador's electoral court has confirmed the victory of former left-wing rebel Salvador Sanchez Ceren in a tight presidential run-off election....

Egypt’s military expands its power over the economy

by Abigail Hauslohner Washington Post March 16, 2014

CAIRO — In the shadows of a harsh political crackdown, the military that overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president last summer is positioning itself to become the country’s uncontested economic power....

Obama was right: To boost the economy, spread the wealth, two new IMF studies indicate

by Christopher Ingraham Washington Post March 13, 2014

Two recent reports from the International Monetary Fund – one just out today – make a compelling case that not only is inequality bad for economic growth, but redistributive policies might also actually be good for it....

Chiquita merger reignites fears of a disappearing banana crop

by Marisa Taylor Al Jazeera America March 10, 2014

Chiquita Brands International, the U.S.-based global produce company that’s perhaps best known for bananas — as well as for its catchy logo featuring the First Lady of Fruit — announced Monday that it would acquire Fyffes, its Irish rival. The two companies will become one before the end of 20...

Egyptian authorities detain thousands amid crackdown on dissent

by Erin Cunningham Washington Post March 10, 2014

CAIRO — At his office in downtown Cairo, defense lawyer Mahmoud Belal chain-smokes Marlboro Reds and gulps cups of bitter Turkish coffee — fuel to help him juggle constant phone calls and pleas for help amid a vast government crackdown on dissent....

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