Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka on April 13, 2022. Credit: Wikipedia Opinion by Asoka Bandarage (washington dc) Friday, August 25, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Aug 25 (IPS) – Sri…

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Thursday, August 24, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 24 (IPS) – International governance arrangements are in trouble. Condemned as ‘dysfunctional’…

PREVENT project in Tanzania/Iringa, 2021, Helena Kindole. Credit: Colin Dames/CEVA Opinion by Enrique Hernandez Pando (madrid, spain) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Inter Press Service Enrique Hernández Pando is Executive Director, Commercial…

Khoo Wei Yang Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Khoo Wei Yang (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, August 16, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 16 (IPS) – The World Bank…

Overfishing is harming the informal traders who rely on it for income. CREDIT: Marko Phiri/IPS by Marko Phiri (bulawayo, zimbabwe) Thursday, August 10, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE, Aug 10…

Credit: UN Women/Zhanarbek Amankulov Opinion by Naila Kabeer (london) Tuesday, August 08, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Aug 08 (IPS) – Last week the IMF offered a cautious estimate of positive…

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, July 26, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 26 (IPS) – Currency values and foreign exchange rates change for many…

Deer sanctuary at Nijhum Dwip – the island of tranquility. Opinion by Ramiz Uddin, Mohammad Saiful Hassan (dhaka, bangladesh) Monday, July 24, 2023 Inter Press Service DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jul 24 (IPS)…

Nazihah Noor Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Nazihah Noor (kuala lumpur and bern) Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR and BERN, Jul 19 (IPS) – In 2015, almost…

Ligoria Felipe dos Santos poses for a photo on her agroecological farm that mixes corn, squash, fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. She is part of the women’s movement that is…

A view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines have already been built in the mountains…

Eronildes da Silva proudly stands next to a bunch of bananas on his farm, whose large size is the result, he says, of the effective fertilizer of reusing waste water.…

Recent trends show that African women are abandoning traditional ways of engaging in agribusiness and adopting an intellectual property approach to transform food systems on the continent. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS…

In the United States and Canada, overdose deaths, predominantly driven by an epidemic of the non-medical use of fentanyl, continue to break records. Credit: Shutterstock. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Tuesday, June…

Lucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the “sertanejo” biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for her varied crops on the one-hectare agroecological…

The expansion towards the mountains of the coastal city of Ensenada, in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, stresses the water supply, which is scarce in this peninsular region…

With one-fifth of farming households dependent on palm oil production, policy considerations that look after the environment, lives, and livelihoods were essential. by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, June 20, 2023 Inter…

Grow Food, not Tobacco. Credit: PAHO by Thalif Deen (united nations) Thursday, June 01, 2023 Inter Press Service On May 31, the World Health Organization (WHO) and public health institutions celebrated…

Her hands loaded with crates, Susan Quintanilla, a union leader of agro-export workers in the department of Ica in southwestern Peru, gets ready to collect different vegetables and fruits for…

Long wait at the border between Sudan and Egypt. Credit: Hisham Allam/IPS by Hisham Allam (cairo) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Inter Press Service CAIRO, May 25 (IPS) – The conflict in…