Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18, 2011 (IPS) – When the international community commemorates World Water Day next week, perhaps it should ponder the words of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who once remarked he does not expect people the world over to stop what they are doing [...]
‘To The Hungry, God Is Bread’
February 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – Finance Ministers and Central Bankers of the Group of 20 (G20) — the world’s top economic performers — who met on February 18-19 in Paris, took a low-keyed approach to a potential world food crisis that was the [...]
DEVELOPMENT-MOZAMBIQUE: Hunger Stalks 55 Percent of Adults
December 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Nastasya Tay MAPUTO, Dec 1, 2010 (IPS) – Baptista Macule is sitting on a sack of groundnuts in a dusty side-alley near the sprawling, makeshift Malanga market on the outskirts of Maputo. He squints into the sun as he tries to explain the extent of poverty in [...]
New Staple Crop Varieties Take Aim at Malnutrition
November 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Nov 9, 2010 (IPS) – When the Green Revolution took root in the 1960s and 1970s, plant biologists’ main concern was increasing the yield of the staple crops on which people in poor countries depended. This, it stood to reason, would increase the [...]
Churchill Denied Relief to Bengal Famine Victims, Book Says
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sananda Sahoo WASHINGTON, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – A new book on the Indian famine of 1943, also known as the Bengal famine named after the specific region where it occurred, has squarely put the responsibility for the famine on then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The [...]
Without Investment in Agriculture, Africans Stay Hungry
October 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Chris Stein JOHANNESBURG, Oct 24, 2010 (IPS) – Inadequate access to water, recurring floods and droughts as well as a lack of political will to invest in small-scale agriculture perpetuate hunger across Africa, the continent’s food security experts say. They are responding to the 2010 Global Hunger [...]
Ending Africa’s Hunger Means Listening to Farmers
October 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 16, 2010 (IPS) – Africa is hungry – 240 million people are undernourished. Now, for the first-time, small African farmers have been properly consulted on how to solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their answers appear to directly repudiate a massive [...]
AFRICA: Hunger Intensifying But Cash Transfers Improving Lives
October 14, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zukiswa Zimela JOHANNESBURG, Oct 14, 2010 (IPS) – Chronic hunger is intensifying in Africa, despite the world’s commitment to address this Millennium Development Goal and reduce world hunger by half by 2015. This is according to the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), which said on Oct. [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Growth and Social Inclusion Must Be Linked to Fight Hunger
October 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Oct 13, 2010 (IPS) – The concept that the state plays a key role in overcoming chronic hunger is not a new one. But the latest figures from Latin America show that more public money and social programmes alone are ineffective solutions. Some 600,000 [...]
MIDEAST: Hungry in Gaza, More and More
September 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – "Sometimes, for a day or two we don’t even have bread, nor flour to make bread. There’s a store nearby that, when we are truly desperate, lets us take a bag of bread or something simple, on credit. [...]
