While Kenya's Mung Bean Bill has moved to mediation, farmers are battling the fallout from the widespread distribution of ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 2024 (IPS) - In the midst of Israel’s ground incursion of southern Lebanon, frequent airstrikes have demolished civilian infrastructure, which is only contributing to the ...

Localization refers to the process of empowering local actors—NGOs, community-based organizations and local governments—to ...

A few years ago, Bernardo Olivera moved to Posadas, the capital of the Argentinean province of Misiones, to study mathematics ...

The growing gender gap between men and women is reflected not only in the world’s highest political hierarchies but also in the daily social and economic lives—with most women fighting a losing battle ...

It is almost universally acknowledged that Pakistan emerged a separate state in 1947 primarily on the basis of religion. Yes, an Islamic state, but isn’t history rather murky on the question of ...

As foreign donors drag their feet on injecting badly needed cash into the government’s coffers, local analysts are increasingly worried that this will affect implementation of key development projects ...

Almost every rainy season the floodgates of Kariba Dam have to be opened to relieve pressure on the dam wall. But despite warnings not to live or farm on the river banks of the Zambezi River ...

As a result of over two weeks of Israeli bombardment, thousands of Palestinian civilians have fled their homes in the north of Gaza and sought refuge in schools run by the UNRWA, the U.N. agency for ...

Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is cheery, this rooftop array is one of several urban ...

The world’s farmers produce enough food to feed more than the global population. Yet around 733 million people are facing hunger in the world. In 2023, nearly 282 million people across 59 countries ...

BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - While the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on food system disruptions was widely covered, underlying food system vulnerabilities across Asia and the ...