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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…
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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…
Credit: Martín Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, May 19, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 19 (IPS) – On 7 May, Chileans went…
The US dollar’s supremacy in the international financial system has long been beyond question. But countries like Brazil are attempting to break away. Opinion by Monica Hirst, Juan Gabriel Tokatlian (rio…
Opinion by Anis Chowdhury (sydney) Monday, May 15, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, May 15 (IPS) – The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)’s latest interest rate hike comes before the ink…
Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Monday, May 08, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 08 (IPS) – The World changes, though prejudices and misconceptions remain. In 1996, political scientist…
A group of drivers push a car at the end of a long line to refuel in Havana. The Cuban authorities say the fundamental cause of the shortage of diesel…
Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, April 21, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Apr 21 (IPS) – The current fighting in Sudan marks the failure of supposed processes for transition to…
Afghan Women refugees undergoing sewing and embroidery training in Peshawar, Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Monday, April 10, 2023 Inter Press Service PESHAWAR, Apr 10 (IPS) – “I…
by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, April 03, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Apr 03 (IPS) – As signs of a new Cold War are fast emerging at the United…