 | Only Acting Together Can We Stop the Rise in Malnutrition Julio Berdergué , Marita Perceval , and Miguel Barreto The number of undernourished people increased for the third consecutive year in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has exceeded 39 million people. In addition, almost one in four adults is obese, while overweight affects 250 million; more than the entire population of Brazil. For this reason, ... MORE > > |
 | Making Agriculture Cool Busani Bafana At every conference she has attended on the youth, Nawsheen Hosenally has been frustrated to hear that agriculture is not ‘cool’. The 29-year-old graduate in agricultural extension and information systems knew she wanted to do something to redeem the image of agriculture among young people. So ...MORE > > |
 | Alert! Hunger and Obesity on the Rise in Latin America for Third Year in a Row Orlando Milesi "For the third consecutive year there is bad news" for Latin America and the Caribbean, where the numbers of hungry people have increased to "39.3 million people," or 6.1 percent of the population, Julio Berdegué, FAO's regional representative, said Wednesday. At the regional headquarters of the ... MORE > > |
 | Is Excessive Sovereign Debt a Threat to Peace? Boudewijn Mohr Some 30 years ago, the international banks were afloat with petrodollars, deposited by the oil exporting countries. The banks in turn stepped up lending to Latin America, in a big way. The new branch of Société Générale in New York where I was working at the time followed suit rapidly building up ... MORE > > |
 | Rainwater Harvesting Eases Daily Struggle in Argentina's Chaco Region Daniel Gutman "I've been used to hauling water since I was eight years old. Today, at 63, I still do it," says Antolín Soraire, a tall peasant farmer with a face ravaged by the sun who lives in Los Blancos, a town of a few dozen houses and wide dirt roads in the province of Salta, in northern Argentina. In ... MORE > > |
 | Africa’s Giant Blue Economy Potential Toshitsugu Uesawa and Siddharth Chatterjee With good reason, Africa is excited over the prospects of sharing in the multi-trillion maritime industry, with the continent’s Agenda 2063 envisioning the blue economy as a foremost contributor to transformation and growth. The United Nations has described Africa’s oceans, lakes and rivers as ... MORE > > |
 | The Caribbean Island of Mayreau Could be Split in Two Thanks to Erosion Kenton X. Chance As a child growing up in Mayreau four decades ago, Filius “Philman” Ollivierre remembers a 70-foot-wide span of land, with the sea on either side that made the rest of the 1.5-square mile island one with Mount Carbuit. But now, after years of erosion by the waves, he, and the other 300 or so ... MORE > > |
 | Lessons for the ‘Rest’ from ersatz miracles Jomo Kwame Sundaram Of the ten fastest growing economies since 1960, eight are in East Asia. Two main competing explanations claimed to explain this regional concentration of catch up growth since the late 20th century, often referred to as the East Asian miracle. Jomo Kwame SundaramThe dominant ‘neo-liberal’ ... MORE > > |
 | Caribbean Looks to Protect its Seafood From Mercury Jewel Fraser Four Caribbean countries have done an inventory of the major sources of mercury contamination in their islands, but a great deal of work still needs to be done to determine where and what impact this mercury is having on the region's seafood chain. Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, ... MORE > > |
 | Truth Never Dies: Justice for Slain Journalists Tharanga Yakupitiyage Violence and toxic rhetoric against journalists must stop, say United Nations experts. Marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, U.N. Special Rapporteurs David Kaye, Agnes Callamard, and Bernard Duhaime expressed concern over the plight that journalists are ...MORE > > |
 | Central American Farmers Face Climate Change Without Insurance Edgardo Ayala Disconsolate, Alberto Flores piles up on the edge of a road the few bunches of plantains that he managed to save from a crop spoiled by heavy rains that completely flooded his farm in central El Salvador. "Everything was lost, I have been cutting what can be salvaged, standing in water up to my ... MORE > > |
 | Cholera Threatens a Comeback Worldwide Anna Kucirkova Cholera outbreaks across history regularly killed a hundred thousand or more. It isn’t well known today because it was essentially eliminated in the Western world. It last erupted in the U.S. in the 1800s, eradicated by water and sewage treatment systems that prevented it from spreading via ... MORE > > |
 | Editorial Changes at Cumhuriyet: the Loss of a Major Independent Voice in Turkey? Christopher Shand Censorship, controversial judicial proceedings and imprisonment: such is the current risk run by independently-thinking journalists in Turkey. Reporters Without Borders ranks Turkey 157th out of 180 countries in its World Press Freedom Index, describing the country as the ‘biggest jail for ... MORE > > |
 | Marco Napoli, 86, Ensured the Survival of IPS at UN Thalif Deen Marco Napoli, who passed away on November 6, began his early professional career as a New York-based correspondent for several international news organizations, including the Italian Il Progresso News, back in the 1960s, long before he was Regional Director, IPS North America. Marco NapoliAs ...MORE > > |
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