Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Wadner Pierre Credit:Wadner Pierre/IPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti’s capital city, the sun is already up. It’s the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She’s [...]
Angry Diouf Blows a Yellow Whistle
May 14, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Angry Diouf Blows a Yellow Whistle FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf By Stefano Colombo IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis ROME (IDN) – Jacques Diouf has two years to go before he completes his third six-year term as the head of a United Nations agency that wants to usher in a “world without [...]
And Yet One In Three Africans Is Chronically Hungry
March 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Babukar Kashka IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – One in three Africans is chronically hungry despite 3 billion dollars a year that Africa receives in food aid and 33 billion dollars the continent spends annually on food imports. What to do? The answer seems to be simple: instead of [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Feeds More Hunger
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Paul Virgo ROME, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was way off the mark when he wrote the famous line "what does not destroy me, makes me stronger" – at least when it comes to hunger. Every six seconds a child is killed by hunger [...]
RIGHTS: ‘Just Let Them Die’?
November 19, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY BAHER KAMAL IDN-InDepthNews Service MADRID (IDN) – "La matematica non e un’ opinione," Italians say. And they are right: mathematics is not an opinion. And this is what mathematics says: – Industrialised countries handed over US$ 18 trillion in one single year to their private banks and private [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
November 18, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Nov 18 (IPS) – Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say. According to data gathered by the German Institute [...]
DEVELOPMENT: To Grab, Or To Invest
November 18, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Paul Virgo ROME, Nov 18 (IPS) – The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others. There has been widespread alarm at a recent acceleration in [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Summit’s Failure Exposes Grim Reality
November 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Paul Virgo ROME, Nov 17 (IPS) – There are two main ways the flop of this week’s United Nations World Food Security Summit in Rome – which has been snubbed by the world’s top leaders, has failed to deliver binding aid commitments, or to set a target date [...]
UNITED NATIONS: Help The Hungry; Don’t Eat For One Day
November 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN IDN-InDepthNews Service ROME (IDN) – Desperate for “the lack of concrete action on hunger despite all the promises made”, the United Nations has called for a world hunger strike on Nov. 14-15. The call has been launched in Rome by Jacques Diouf, director general of the UN Food and [...]
PAKISTAN: Soup Kitchens Spring Up to Stave Off Growing Hunger
November 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Nov 17 (IPS) – Until meagre resources began dwindling to almost nothing, 43-year-old Firdaus Begum had not ventured into the Khana Ghar (Food House), which serves up inexpensive but filling meals. Not too long ago, she finally stepped into the ‘tandoor’ (clay oven where unleavened wheat [...]
