Full coverage: Poverty

30.11.2006 Getachew and Ingida are seasoned farmers in the fertile area of Debre Zeit in rural Ethiopia who have shared their views on the hardship of feeding growing families.

30.11.2006 From organizing small farmers to locally sourcing food aid, there are plenty of innovative projects being implemented around the world to minimize hunger and poverty.

30.11.2006 Successful development projects flow from an understanding of shared community values. Heifer's “Passing the Gift” is a case in point.

30.11.2006 The first commodity exchange opened in Chicago 150 years ago to help farmers ensure a stable demand for their crop. Facing similar issues, Ethiopia is now looking into developing a similar system--based on its own needs.

30.11.2006 In Ethiopia, like in many countries in transition, there is a deep mistrust of traders. But without them, how would the country achieve its goal of commercializing agriculture?

30.11.2006 Commercializing agriculture—and creating a “new farmer” as the government aims to do—is no easy task, especially in a country where both the roads and telecommunications structures are among the weakest in the world.

30.11.2006 From seed breeding to GMOs, do new technologies hold the solution to world hunger? Or are they a pandora's box?

30.11.2006 Are economies of scale needed to feed a global population of over 6 billion people at a relatively low cost?

30.11.2006 Smallholder farms are both durable and integral to combating rural poverty.

30.11.2006 Rural poverty, urban migration, biotech's promise, the supermarket boom, and more.

30.11.2006 In a world where there is enough food for everyone, why is hunger still so pervasive and how can agricultural policies make a difference?

28.11.2006 Papiya Sarkar from the Media and Communications group of the India Social Forum (ISF) writes about the seminars on globalisation and fair trade that she attended at the recently-concluded ISF. The discussions were on overcoming barriers to fair trade and making it work for the socio economic development of the marginalised sections of the population.

27.11.2006 The New Delhi based Center for Science and Environment (CSE) has laid out an agenda for the recently set up Tiger Task force that says that the government will have to involve local people and tribals in protecting the tiger and will have to tackle the menace of poaching at the international level.

27.11.2006 100 000 intialaista lasta vaatii maan hallitusta täyttämään lupauksensa osoittaa yhdeksän prosenttia bruttokansantulosta koulutukseen ja terveydenhuoltoon. "Nine is mine" -kampanja tähtää YK:n vuosituhattavoitteiden saavuttamiseen.

27.11.2006 Intian talouselämässä tapahtuu. Bruttokansantulo kasvaa ja ulkomaisia investointeja virtaa maahan. Helsingissä pidetyssä seminaarissa haettiin syitä Intian talousihmeeseen ja etsittiin ratkaisua maan köyhyysongelmaan. Selityksiä talouskasvulle haettiin niin maan historiasta, koulujärjestelmästä kuin protektionismistakin.

27.11.2006 Samaan aikaan kun Kiinan vuotuinen talouskasvu on ollut lähes 10 prosenttia, on köyhimmän kansanosan tulotaso tippunut, osoittavat Maailmanpankin tutkimustulokset. Vuodesta 2002 presidenttinä toiminut Hu Jintao on nostanut talouspolitiikkansa keskipisteeseen rikkaiden ja köyhien välisen kuilun kuromisen pienemmäksi, Finacial Times muistuttaa.

27.11.2006 Concerned over the little space that common people and the civil society get in the budget-making process in India they have formed an alliance to advocate for more people-centric budgets. Over 100 activists, academics, number of government and community women from different states assembled at New Delhi on November 27 and 28th for a consultation on people’s budget and to strengthen this initiative

27.11.2006 Indian civil society organisations from one of India's most backward states Madhya Pradesh joined hands with people and the government to participate in the global event - Stand Up Against Poverty on 15-16 October, 2006. They joined some 23 million people across the world in the event.

24.11.2006 Viimeisen vuosikymmenen aikana nuorten työttömien määrä maailmassa on kasvanut 74 miljoonasta 85 miljoonaan nuoreen eli 14,8 prosentilla. Työssä käyntikään ei takaa riittävää toimeentuloa. Yli 300 miljoonaa nuorta, eli 25 prosenttia kaikista nuorista, elää alle kahdella dollarilla päivässä, kertoo Maailman työjärjestön ILO:n tuore raportti.

24.11.2006

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