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New project announced: Global food security by the numbers
Since the global food crisis in 2008, the world has seen increased interest in agricultural development to alleviate poverty, spur economic growth, and advance food security. New research, new players, and additional resources have cropped up across the traditional landscape....
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi says his country is in danger of collapse. “If this country fails, the whole region will slide into a cy...
Since the army took power from Mohamed Morsi in 2013 with popular support, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi says he’s been fighting to keep the forces of anarchy at bay....
Is gender inequality the main roadblock to achieving nutrition targets?
To mark International Women's Day I wanted to write about something that has been niggling me. ...
Let’s grant women land rights and power our future
BONN, Mar 4 2015 (IPS) - Women are not only the world’s primary food producers. They are hardworking and innovative and, they invest far more of their earnings in their families than men. But most lack the single most important asset for accessing investment resources – land rights....
From famine to feast in 40 years: Policy matters
In the mid-1970s, the outlook for food supplies around the world was grim. There were talks of “food triage”— food-rich countries would decide which food-poor countries should get food, thereby dooming the rest to death....
Food security: If the dreamers lose, we face a nightmare Less food for more people on a hotter, drier Earth. How can we work to avoid this future?
By the time nations once again get round a table in Paris in December to discuss climate change, hunger should be on the menu. Researchers have just warned that a new and aggressive strain of yellow rust fungus is now a threat to Britain’s wheat harvest. ...
What to do about “grand corruption? An estimated $17.6 trillion in murky money is held in tax havens, unidentified bank accounts or shell compan...
BERLIN — The banking giant HSBC was outed by an international consortium of journalists for having systematically helped wealthy clients hide billions of dollars in assets, thus avoiding international tax police and criminal investigations....
Hidden hunger: America’s growing malnutrition epidemic
he word “hunger” calls to mind thin, starving children in developing countries, but in the US today, the real picture of undernutrition is different. In some cases, children who are obese who are malnourished because they are consuming the wrong types of foods – foods that are calorie dense, b...
After canceling its presidential election, Haiti heads toward chaos
BEFORE HE went into politics, Haitian President Michel Martelly was a nationally renowned pop star whose stage antics included mooning his adoring fans. As president, Mr. Martelly, whose five years in office are drawing to a close, has treated his constituents, Haiti’s 10 million citizens, with no...
The fight for civil rights, long after Martin Luther King
The protests over the killings of unarmed black men by police have been called the start of a new civil rights movement. But a half-century after activists broke the back of Jim Crow, problems beyond police brutality persist for African-Americans: the wealth gap widens, higher education is less atta...
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