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Care for Economic Development, Then Care for Food Nutrition, Food Researcher Tells Africa’s PoliticiansDec 2, 2019 2:15 PM ET Dec 2, 2019 - By Busani Bafana Inter Press Service (IPS) journalist Busani Bafana sat down with Busi Maziya-Dixon, a Senior Food and Nutrition Scientist at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) ahead of the 10th International Forum on Food and Nutrition. Maziya-Dixon warns there is no country which will achieve economic development with an undernourished population. Dr. Busi Maziya Dixon, Food Scientist, IITA. Credit: Busani Bafana / IPS MILAN, Italy, Dec 2. Read More |
Biofortified Food, a Business Boost for Smallholder FarmersDec 2, 2019 2:00 PM ET Dec 2, 2019 - By Busani Bafana Biofortified Orange Vitamin A maize developed by Harvestplus is helping fight micronutrient deficiency in children. Credit, Busani Bafana / IPS BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 2 2019 (IPS) – A start-up in Zimbabwe is producing high nutrition foods using biofortified crops in a bid to fight micronutrient deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) leads to night blindness, illness and death from childhood infections. In Zimbabwe, 36 percent of. Read More |
Hola, Madrid! African Development Bank takes the continent’s climate agenda to COP25 in SpainNov 30, 2019 1:10 PM ET Nov 30, 2019 - By PRESS RELEASE The Bank is playing a leading role in guiding progress on climate change on the continent. The Bank has doubled its total climate change commitment to $25 billion between 2020 and 2025. ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire, Nov 30 2019 – The African Development Bank will on Monday kick off a campaign to plead the continent’s case at the world’s leading climate change conference. The 25th session of. Read More |
Running from the Storm – How Bangladesh’s Climate Migrants are Becoming Food SecureNov 28, 2019 8:15 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Rafiqul Islam Ruma Begum and her husband collect pumpkins from their vegetable field. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS BHOLA, Bangladesh, Nov 28 2019 (IPS) – It was almost a decade ago when Ruma Begum and her family left their home in Bangladesh’s coastal Tazumuddin upazila or sub-district and travelled some 50 km away to start a new life. They had been driven out of their home by an extreme. Read More |
Why Prosecuting Human Traffickers in Nigeria is Nothing More than a MirageNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Tobore Ovuorie In this Voices from the Global South podcast, IPS takes you to Lagos, Nigeria, to understand why the country’s national agency against trafficking has only successfully prosecuted 339 offenders over the last 13 years. This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. LAGOS, Nigeria, Sep 9 2019 (IPS) – Hope Oyiza,. Read More |
When the Search for Jobs Ends in SlaveryNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Wambi Michael This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. Zubedah Nakitende was trafficked as salve labour to a family in Jordon. Her employer gave her a cream for her injured fingers that was actually turned out to be acid. Nakitende’s fingers were so badly injured they had to be amputated. Credit: Wambi. Read More |
Wall Street can Free the World’s 40 Million Modern-Day SlavesNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By James Reinl This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. A 2009 study found that almost 250,000 children worked in auto repair stores, brick klins, as domestic labourers, and as carpet weavers and sozni embroiderers in Jammu and Kashmir. A new study says financiers in Wall Street, the City of London and other. Read More |
Human Trafficking – It Came Disguised as the Opportunity of a LifetimeNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Miriam Gathigah This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. When she was 20 Mary Njambi was trafficked to Saudi Arabia where she thought she would obtain work as a well-paid domestic worker. Instead, she was treated as a slave and was sexually abused. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS NAIROBI, Oct 3 2019 (IPS) –. Read More |
For Some in Kashmir Marriage Equates to Sexual SlaveryNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Umar Manzoor Shah This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. In Kashmir there are thousands of young women who were sold in their teens by their parents to older men, and now living lives governed by restrictions which many equate to imprisonment. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS SRINAGAR, Oct 11 2019 (IPS) – Haseena. Read More |
Booming eSports and Video Gaming Already Bigger Than Music and Movie Industries CombinedNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - LOS ANGELES,The eSports and video gaming market have already outpaced their contemporaries in the film and music businesses with what is expected to be a $300 billion annual industry by 2025. So, it seems ironic that investors are slow to catch on. That’s according to portfolio managers who think the industry has plenty of room to run. Especially since it continues to grow in the double digits. Or more simply put, market. Read More |
How to ‘Fix the Business of Food’ and Save the PlanetNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Samira Sadeque From farm to fork, the global food industry needs to start aligning their operations with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. Pictured here, a farmer tends to vegetables in a greenhouse in Antigua, where a climate-smart agricultural initiative seeks to improve farm productivity. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2019 (IPS) – With up to one billion undernourished people around the world,. Read More |
Ghana’s Grains and Groundnuts Face Increasing Contamination Amid Increasing TemperaturesNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Albert Oppong-Ansah Adwoa Frimpomaah, a smallholder farmer from Ghana’s Bono East Region, and her two children have been eating maize likely infected by aflatoxins. Credit: Albert Oppong-Ansah/IPS BONO EAST REGION, Ghana , Oct 16 2019 (IPS) – Adwoa Frimpomaah, a smallholder farmer from Dandwa, a farming community in Nkoranza, in Ghana’s Bono East Region, and her two children have been consuming insect-infested and discoloured grains produced from. Read More |
The AI-driven Approach to App DevelopmentNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - Having an app is not too different from having a website in some regards these days – it’s become a basic requirement for operating properly in some markets. The old saying “if you don’t have a website for your business, it might not exist” is now just as valid for apps in these circles. And while it can seem that developing one yourself is not that big of a deal,. Read More |
HR Trends of 2019 That Will Continue in 2020Nov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - It wasn’t too long ago that experts in the industry were predicting big changes that are about to hit the Human Resources sector in 2019, and now, we are already looking forward to 2020. Did all the predictions from last year come true? Probably not, but some of them did, and the coming year is going to build on them, while introducing some trends that were expected to be seen. Read More |
— Hidden in Plain Sight: Sex Trafficking in CanadaNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Nadia Kanji This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. Seventy-two percent of trafficked victims in Canada are under the age of 25, and 51 percent of trafficked girls have been involved in the child welfare system. Courtesy: Dmitry Schemelev/Unsplash UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 2019 (IPS) – Human trafficking for sexual exploitation has. Read More |
Beaten and Tortured for a Ransom, Lured by the Promise of a LivelihoodNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Rafiqul Islam This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. The International Organisation for Migration says that in Bangladesh victims of human trafficking are either abducted or lured with promises of a better life. Credit: Rafiqul Islam Sarker/IPS DHAKA, Oct 17 2019 (IPS) – After his father passed away two years ago, the. Read More |
Agro-tech Offers Answers for African Farmers at Iowa MeetNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By James Reinl Female subsistence farmers, who according to the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa form more than 70 percent of farmers in Africa. Last week USAID announced $70 million of investment into research for new seeds and methods to reduce the impact of droughts and disease on crops across the developing world. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS DES MOINES, United States , Oct 21 2019 (IPS) – Experts. Read More |
Africa’s Investment Drive Gathers PaceNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Farhana Haque Rahman Africa Investment Forum 2018 ROME, Oct 18 2019 (IPS) – Headwinds are blowing amid IMF warnings of a “synchronised slowdown” in global economic growth, yet Africa’s investment drive is still gathering pace, supported by intense international competition in development finance. Despite the global slowdown, 19 sub-Saharan countries are among nearly 40 emerging markets and developing economies forecast by the IMF to maintain. Read More |
Callon Provides Update Regarding Carrizo TransactionNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - HOUSTON,Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) (“Callon” or the “Company”) today issued the following statement regarding its previously announced pending all-stock acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRZO) (“Carrizo”). Yesterday, Callon filed an investor presentation highlighting the benefits of the Carrizo transaction. The presentation is available on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at https://ir.callon.com/ as well as on https://www.sec.gov/. As the presentation makes clear, Callon is led by an experienced Board. Read More |
Starting a Pharmaceutal Business? Here’s What You Need.Nov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - The pharmaceutical industry is ever-evolving, and while established drug companies dominate the market, there is also room for entrepreneurs who want to start their own pharmaceutical business. This is perfect for those who have a great mind for research and development, and want to venture into the medical market. It can seem daunting to know where to begin when starting out in such a huge industry, so here’s what you. Read More |